home-hearth

Outdoor grillin’, Pups playing, card games welcomed.

Colorado SUMMER @ Ash & Tom’s digs.  Dessert, my contribution.  Lemon meringue pie, chocolate-caramel brownies, Stephen’s homemade Boston Crème PILE (first attempt; tasted better than it looked — LOL>Colorado SUMMER!  FINALLY!

Took a while to get here (lotta rain this year) but the short season between Spring & Fall hath arrived.  Time  to unplug, text less, stop logging miles, attend outdoor concerts/plays & soak up some vitamin D.

AND of course…the annual honey-do list 😊

— new kitchen lights (one hadn’t worked in 5 years)

— garbage disposal gone (8 years dysfunctional, why replace? compost & enjoy TWO sinks)

— haircuts, both me and Pup (it was time)

— plates for the new truck (all legal now, first payment made)

— new reading specs (Ash shamed me outta my Ben Franklin frames)

— another try at keeping greens alive on the front porch (green thumb struggle – not my Michaela, gal’s found her niche.  EVERYTHING grows for M.  Sharing an Icelandic vacation next month.  Yay!)

Summer Shakespeare at CU’s Mary Rippon Theatre.  Poisonings, stabbings, noble warfare – ’til this year, a comedy, my first.  Viola disguised as Cesario, is shipwrecked – and finds love.  Twelfth Night, a new fave.

Summertime, summertime.  Summ, summ, summertime ♪♫♬

Red Rocks next week, Frontier Days week after.  LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️

 

honey do list (US, idiomatic) a collection of requests, usually by a spouse for a partner to perform a series of tasks, assignments, or jobs dealing with the maintenance of a household.

 

 

Shakespeare Festival 2019

 

 

The rule in Colorado – never before Mother’s Day.  April showers brings May SNOW (at least in Colorado).

Easter Bunny RIP ✞

Couple days in the 70’s, late-calendar Easter holiday & a non-travel HOME weekend.  Neighbors are gonna comment.  Spring planting on the down low.  Bulbs yes, flowering plants no.  Don’t care.  It’s MY stoop, MY front porch to Spring up.  Global warming means seasons are shorter, no more snow at 5500ft – just the high mountains thru mid-June.  Right?  And heck, it’s EARTH Day.  Gotta/hafta/must PLANT.

Uprooted the holly bush, replaced with wild roses.  Not a Colorado variety – again, counting on the big global BAKE to keep ’em alive (didn’t save the holly after 5 years).  Absolutely NO idea what I purchased for my barrel planters – big, GREEN, full of blooms, screamed ‘SPRING’.  Check, done.  Come on board.

I always plant Snapdragons.  BORING.  Provide some colour, grow in our arid climate.  Not crazy vibrant    but survive our summer temperature swing, low 40’s to upper 90’s.  No humidity, nothing to dial in the barometer.  Notta lotta clouds either, mountain SUNSHINE 300 days a year 🌞

Not gonna waste more words & pretend I’m a horticulturalist.  Just celebrating the season.  It’s really really GOOD to watch things grow.  Slow down each morning, 10-minute water ritual before the work day start.

Triggers something in the brain.  Hope.  New ideas.  Calm, steady.  Peace, nurture.

Hopefully, my newest plant babies will survive the late season white.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Dig.  Plant.  Watch something GROW!

 

 

May SNOW 2019

 

 

Summer 2016

Summer 2016

 

Last of FaceBook folks ‘til August.  No drama – just taking a break.

Successfully filled my News Feed with scores of inspiring people, but find I’m watching others vs living out my own life adventure.  So this Friday, that’s it.

Kicking off summer, this weekend in beautiful Coeur d’Alene (Idaho).  3 day-weekend itinerary includes a marathon, massage & BnB stay on the Lake (full breakfast too 🙂 ).

 

June & July plans

read a book

night trail running (full moon & a headlamp)

first O’ Canada marathons (Banff-Alberta & New Brunswick)

climb a new mountain

July 4th celebration in St Louis (3-day family weekend)

camp & marathon scenic Aspen

Yellowstone road-trip & high-altitude Montana 26.2

 

After getting injured last month, rededicated myself to training.  Consistently running – on track to hit 200 miles in May (first time since 2014).  Dropped 6 lbs.  Added an accountability partner (thanks Carolyn)/text daily to stay on plan…wanna new PR this Fall.

Aspen, Banff, Montana & Coeur d’Alene – BIG plans, INSPIRED ‘bout the summer.  Anything’s possible.

 

 

 

                                              BE PHENOMENAL

 

Start acting like this is your last day on the planet

 

I deserve to see what my life would look like if I gave 103%

I would rather aim for the stars and not hit them, than to not aim at all

I would rather go after it and not get it, than not go after it at all

I’d rather try and fail, than to not try at all

I don’t want to live with the idea: wonder what would have happened had I done more with my life

I’m gonna go for it come hell or high water, I’m going after my destiny

 

You gotta run after your destiny

You can’t crawl after your destiny

You can’t walk after your destiny

You gotta RUN