365 Days of Education

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.

October 7 – Snowman

This snowman is a point of contention apparently. The homeowner’s board believes it is a seasonal display and should be removed. It’s actually flat stepping stones, that one would never notice if they weren’t in the guys driveway looking down between shrubs.

September 20 – Hay

Just when I start to think of think Fort Collins as a city…

along comes the tractor behind the 4-star Hilton Hotel, baling hay.

August 15 – Roe

Roe warming up at Bohemian Nights. Or maybe the Epilogues. I can’t remember.

The trolley no longer runs this far, but the tracks remain.

August 14 – Bohemian Nights

Setting up the Old Town stage for Fort Collins’ biggest music festival of the year.

50 bands on 5 stages. We’ll be there!