18 posts tagged “summer”
the weather forecast keeps threatening snow - so now we have the prettiest garden in Snowmass!
so we had to start our garden over. as i am not a very good gardener - i killed every seedling tilly and i grew. no biggie - - we come from the line of judi - we just buy replacements!
so we bought two tomato plants, a red pepper, tilly picked out strawberries although i'm sure i'll kill those.
and yesterday we bought a few flowers to kill including a pink geranium.
as i was re-potting the geranium i noticed something moving - i assumed it was a worm - and jumped a little - and then i saw it was a snake! then i screamed a little. tilly and i spent the next half hour trying to get it to crawl into a jar. thank goodness jeremy came home. he picked it up and put it in the jar so tilly could show all her friends. he wanted to know why i didn't pick it up - are you serious?
while we've been hoping for warm weather and some grass in the yard (it's still snowy) - tilly asked if we could grow some plants - veggies - have a little garden. well - honestly - i have killed every plant or flower i have ever bought (I have two hanging on for dear life in the house right now). But - let's try anyways!
so we bought some seeds and we have them in baggies on the windows. and you know what - we've got some sprouts!
And we love it. We have the most fun riding together.
Tilly and I ride back and forth to school most days. We go for family rides to the park, pool, just downhill anywhere. Pulling an extra 60 pounds (Tilly plus the trailer) up and down our hills can be lung-burning, but it's SO WORTH IT!
(Tonight was the first night we had the extra bracket for Jeremy's bike so now he can join in the uphill fun!)
The funny thing about where we live is that we were only about 25 minutes from our house. She can get car sick and we thought for the first time we didn't want to make the trip about driving (and possibly puking).
So, like camping goes, it rained most of the time. The evening talk was cancelled and we couldn't start a fire. I brought way too much food so we ate and colored in the tent all night. We had a great time. Now she wants to go for two nights!
I forgot that I got this amazing vase from one of the residents at the Ranch before I left. If I had a big bouquet (or maybe gerber daisies) I could stick them in the holes around the side too.
