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.
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- outdoor GRILLIN’
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- SUMMER plenty
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- lemon meringue, chocolate brownie & Boston Crème PILE
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- game on! COMPETITIVE
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- LIFE memories ❤️
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- Volunteer of the YEAR
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- new LIGHTS
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- disposal DISPOSED
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- green thumb STRUGGLE
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- summer COIF
Shakespeare Festival 2019
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- CU’s Mary Rippon Theatre
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- my first comedy
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- annual tradition
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- shipwrecked, mistaken twins, unexpected romance
#givingback
Maybe it’s just our early season SNOW but I caught the bug – HOLIDAY season is HERE!
Humbug Christmas, this year I’m Thanksgifting. No timing stress, no expectations, even REGIFTING is OK – there are no rules. Give ‘cause you wanna gift now. Gift early, gift unexpectedly. Not just one monster day of toys. Spread the love – a full season of giving 🦃 🎁
4 FEET of chocolate & cheeses to my Connecticut family. Regifted snowshoes to Ash & Tom (bought myself new Dions). Picked up the tab/restaurant last week with friends. Give, give, give. Be selfish – give because it makes you feel good. Thanksgifting, it’s super fun.
And…get out outside.
Don’t let ‘the holidays’ trap you indoors with ‘tradition’.
It’ll all get done, lil’ bit every day 😊
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- Connecticut gifting
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- Arkansas gifting
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- Colorado gifting
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- ‘Giving Tuesday’ pitch
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- wobble Gobble 🦃
From: Ashton
To: allboulder <allboulder@psaudio.com>
Subject: Pet Food Drive
Thank you for listening to my little pitch earlier 🙂 Here are some more details of the pet food drive AND the virtual pet food drive PawsCo is collecting donations for via Facebook (if that’s easier/preferred for anyone). I will take all physical donations to the food bank on the first week of December. THANK YOU!
PawsCo Annual Pet Food Drive
I invite you to participate in our annual pet food drive by donating pet food in the physical donation bin in the kitchen, or money through our virtual food drive. All monetary donations will go towards the direct purchase of pet food (which PawsCo can purchase at a discounted price to help further). All pet food will be delivered to the Food Bank of the Rockies and distributed across Colorado. Our Pet Food Drive is a way to make sure the pets in our community stay fed and in their homes despite a family’s temporary struggles. Food Bank of the Rockies estimates it needs 10,000 pounds of pet food every month to meet the needs of struggling families in our community.
We heard the following from one of our families last year and it warmed our hearts:
“Thank you again for caring for my canine, Evie. She is the center of my world without kids or a hubby. Your organization has afforded me the ability to provide for her.”
We thank you all so much for your donation and for being committed to keeping families and pets together!
First it was recycling. Cans, bottles, paper – no problem, already had that. Ash educated EVERYONE at work & home – literally dug thru garbage & pulled out recyclable items. Disgusting but effective. Within 6 months I flipped cans. Half bag of trash, giant orange cart of recycling. This is HER planet, keep it GREEN; most everything is recyclable.
Summer 2016, bought her first home – then found forever homes for 18 foster cats & dogs.
This year we’re saying NO to straws.
Straws? This is a problem? Yep, completely serious. It’s something we use no more than 10 minutes, then discard into the trash. Most will not decompose for hundreds of years. Those that make it into our oceans – even worse. Yep, a simple straw.
If you can stomach it, watch the video below. It made me a believer.
We are grown-ups; we can drink out of a glass without a straw.
Take Action #NoPlasticStraws
- Join in and next time you out to eat, ask for no straw. Remind your server or bartender when the drink is served too. If you accidentally end up with a plastic straw, reuse it on the next drink instead of going through multiple straws.
- Purchase reusable straws that are great for on the go. There are many options available including bamboo, stainless steel, glass, and silicone. They’re easy to throw in your purse or suit coat too.
https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/no-straw-please
Skip a Straw – Save a Turtle
By: Robyn Albritton, Sustainability Director, Sailors for the Sea
Straws are consistently on the top 10 lists for marine debris collected every year during the International Coastal Cleanup. It is estimated that Americans use a whopping 500 million straws per day – a number that, end-to-end, could circle the planet 2.5 times. Imagine this number compounded on a global scale.
While it seems simple, straws create a pressing threat to our oceans because they are made to be disposable, and on average are used for just 10 minutes. Plastic straws are rarely recyclable, requiring special facilities, and they almost always end up in a landfill, or worse the ocean. Over their lifespan the straw breaks down into smaller and smaller, even microscopic pieces. Pieces so small that single-celled organisms and other marine life eat them.
The plastic remains forever.
