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two sites
I had two sites go live today. Both still a bit in progress, but sometimes it gets easier to work with the real thing.
Sam Wiener is an artist from New York who had a residency at Anderson Ranch years ago.He was visiting this summer and we started work on his website.
The other site is Jeremy's. He hasn't even really looked through it yet, but he needed to have a website up. He was lucky enough to have Men's Journal and Qantas airlines contact him the past couple weeks without there really being a way to find him. It still has some tweaks to work out, but I think it looks good!
holiday baking
tilly and i don't care that it's only november 11 (and that channukah is soon) – we are on to christmas baking.
yesterday we made homemade popcorn balls. pretty easy, fun and yummy. the recipe was from martha. from the way tilly and i talk of her you would think she was a close friend. we left the raisins out of the recipe (in popcorn balls, yuck!) and i added salt. i would actually add more salt if we made them again. the salt and the sweet were the best bites.
today we made snowmen and stocking cookies with holes cut out to melt candy canes in them. they are pretty delish. we decided the stockings were polka dotted and the snowmen had belly buttons. i could eat too many of these!
i was the geek at the restaurant today…
this was cracking me up at lunch today.
tilly played along, but i think jeremy was beyond embarrassed. still – he was a good sport!
nice day
well…it was warm enough at least. Tilly really wanted the outdoor pool so we swam there this afternoon. We would run from the regular pool to the hot tub – get too hot – run back – get cool – run back. It was fun. We really love our pool.
halloween
(such the late post)
Tilly had an awesome Halloween! She ran from house to house trick-or-treating, barely caring about where we were except to give us a candy report about what she got.
Our only problem is that she's so polite – she only takes 1 piece of candy from any house. It takes a long time to fill a halloween bucket big enough for her and me!
new life
So two weeks later…we bought Dance Dance Revolution for our Wii…so much fun! It's like dancing, having fun and exercising.
We had to do something – I've made a fresh loaf of bread every other day for the past two weeks. If we keep this up we'll have to purchase our own wheat field (..and mill) soon!
more bread
i think the second loaf of bread is more beautiful than the first. i'm obsessed!
fresh bread
i made my first batch of no-knead bread. seems like it was on everybody's blog last year, but i just got around to it. SO DELICIOUS! i was happy i read the original new york times article. Mark Bittman's pretty laid back about the directions, the pot you use, etc…which was great to know. he has a second article too.
we had this bread with soup last night. we ate more than half the loaf. it has a great crunchy, but not too thick, crust and a moist inside. truly an amazing loaf of bread!
(i thought chuck might like making it just to see the dough at all the funny stage and i thought rich might like making it for the easy making bread recipe)
my first grocery list
another great kids activity – i'm letting her write my grocery list! (oil, 2 apple, cream)
as seen on tv
our new favorite craft activity – straight from the commercials between all kids shows – aquadots!
fabulous fall day
it was windy and grey today with a winter storm warning in effect (there's about 2" on the deck right now). there's something about spending all day outside 2 miles from your car with the weather blowing and spinning around you that makes you feel like you got away with something when you get home and you're still dry and you had a great time.
we wanted to go to a pumpkin festival at Rock Bottom Ranch in Leon (Basalt). they have very little parking so we drove our car, with bikes on the back, to Catherine Store. then we rode the Rio Grande Trail to the little eco ranch.
We carved pumpkins, helped make apple cider, had a great lunch, tilly rode a giant horse with her cubs hat on and best of all chased chickens. tilly's so great and gentle though that she got to pet the chickens and the giant turkey.
So crafty…They just woke up
So crafty…They just woke up
first snowman
here's another picture from the snowstorm. the kids are so fun during these first snows. tilly sledded all day at school and as soon as she got home she wanted to go back out into the snow and build a snowman. it's only tough here because are snow doesn't really pack together (which makes it outstanding for skiing and snowboarding!)
new site
not designed by me, but the SkiCo has a new website for showcasing Jeremy's images (I suppose that was their main reason). And right now Tilly's picture is in the starting line-up!
This week on the fridge
This week on the fridge
That’s a lot of snow!
That's a lot of snow!
family
bubbe and poppy were in town last weekend. the weather was bad, the cubs lost (the rockies won!), but we made great apple pie, chocolate cake and butternut squash soup.
and tilly would spend all day reading at the bookstore if you let her.
growing child
tilly hasn't been interested in drawing with me for a long time. i try not to get on her case about it.
at the doctor's office two weeks ago she drew a man for the nurse (upside down so it would be facing the nurse).
then last week her best friend taught her how to draw flowers, suns, oceans, etc…and suddenly she is a drawing fanatic.
she's been into tracing – especially letters – for a while now.
but last night while we were working on a project together, she asked me for a piece of paper from a Paper Source bag and left the room we were in. i didn't think much about it, but when i walked into the living room she had written 'paper source' just from looking at the package. maybe normal, i have no idea, i thought this was amazing!
Fall Baking
so during our month of eating local, Martha Stewart had a recipe for Molasses-Spice Cake in the magazine. Because we couldn't find local flour I didn't really bake during the month. I was obsessed with this cake. It looked sooo good!
So with an imminent first snow we stayed home today and baked this cake…with so much hope though it was just ok. Tilly and Jeremy both really liked it – like good carrot cake without the icky raisins. I hoped it would be moister and denser – but it was pretty good for a rainy day.
I've been through a lot of coffee, tea and wine today.