365 Days of Education

February 13 – ‘Shrooms

At the Fort Collins Indoor Winter Market.

February 10 – Disco Ball

Groovy ceiling at this hotel.

January 8 – End of the season

What didn’t come out so well in the picture were the streams of tinsel flying off the tree as the car drove along.

December 23 – Oak Grill

Eating at the Oak Grill in Dayton’s (now Macy’s, but in an act of defiance, most Minnesotans still call it Dayton’s) is a family tradition dating back to when my mother was a child.

Now, we head down each year to see the display in the 8th floor auditorium and lunch at the Oak Grill. The popovers are divine and the people watching is good, too. Children dressed up to visit Santa. Parents who waited too long to get their name on the seating list placating sugar stressed children for over an hour. Elderly grandparents and great-grandparents in their finery treating grandchildren. (They’re seated, of course. They KNOW to get their names on the list FIRST.)

December 17 – Holiday Decorations

If you look closely through the window to the left, you’ll see Halloween pumpkins hanging from a coat rack.

These have run all day& night, for at least the last couple of weeks.

December 16 – Betty Crocker

My mom’s cookbook from 1968. The gingerbread men are kind of creepy looking now!

December 14 – Christmas Tree

Put up the tree tonight. No idea how to get a decent photo of it in all its lit up glory.

December 3 – Free-Range Ground Beef

Last night, we all watched Food, Inc. The movie’s tag line is: You’ll never look at dinner the same way.  Tonight we tried Free-Range, Never Confined to a Feedlot, Ground Beef, purchased, oddly enough, at Target.  Sprouts didn’t have any!(To Sprouts’ credit, they did have organic onions cheaper than regular ones.)

The texture was much different and it had great flavor. At $5 for one pound to feed a family of 4 (2 teenage boys), we could go broke eating so healthily.

Looks like we won’t have as many leftovers, though.

November 29 – Auntie Stone Cabin

Auntie Stone Cabin outside of the Fort Collins Museum.

October 19 – Stamps

Another envelope from Hong Kong today. Had to use a flash and it shows.