Harvest Weekend

Temps began dropping below freezing here overnight last week. While our unheated greenhouse can hold some extra warmth during these early shifts, the vegetables inside began showing the

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4 Things I Love Today

While I burn time editing videos of Lilly and LuLu, I’ll take a quick minute to share a few more entirely unrelated things I’m loving these days —

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As Promised: A Mini Cooper Extravaganza

When lighting and mood finally aligned, I took these shots of my super cool new Mini Cooper. It’s a total blast to drive. It gets AMAZING gas mileage,

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Surgery Update

Just a quick note of thanks for your good wishes and prayers. My sister’s surgery went well. Because they started about 2 hours late and her post-op pain

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Surgery Vigil

I’m headed out soon to sit vigil during my sister’s mastectomy. If you could throw a spare good thought our way today, the girls of Champion of My

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Coping Strategies

Again, you have my apologies for the missing posts and general absence lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about how best to handle stress and worry when it

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Hawaii Photo Montage

Tom’s sister Terry lives most of the year in Molokai, Hawaii. She has been visiting Colorado in recent weeks and gave us a CD of photos she has

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Chester the Alpaca

Since mentally I only have enough bandwidth for required work, I thought I might entertain you with photos. This is Chester. He is a 2-year-old alpaca that I

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Non-Training Life Update

I’m sorry there was no Training Update yesterday as is our Friday tradition. Numerous real-life stressors have consumed any time and energy for training. Here’s the rundown of

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Greenhouse 2009 Report & More Wildflowers

2009 is my second full growing season with a greenhouse to aid in my high-altitude gardening. The season is SO short at over 8,000 feet that my results

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