Saguaro lake ranch

Wonderful wedding weekend in Arizona. Just outside Phoenix in the mesa desert, there is an amazing place called Saguaro Lake Ranch. Go there. Spend Saturday tubing down the river with the sun on your face. Spend the evening laughing with friends in the rain and playing games and dancing. On Sunday, have a lovely breakfast and then pack a lunch and go hiking up the valley. Come back exhausted and exhilarated. Happy wedding Jon and Kat!

Sunday brunch

Looking for something wonderful to make for brunch this weekend? You can stop looking, this is it:

http://joythebaker.com/2014/09/sausage-cheddar-grits-crust-less-quiche/

you're welcome.

~ Enjoy! ~

Springing

Garden journal: week 1. I got a tip that this was the weekend to start planting cold weather crops. Here you can see my carrots and broccoli, and I also started onions, potatoes, and Brussels sprouts! I'm so excited! I hope I can keep them alive.

To be continued...

Snap shot of a marriage

Actual conversion between me and my husband while I was in Indiana:

Me: so what have you been having for dinner?
DH: oh, you know, taco bell.
Me: what?? But I left you a bunch of easy meals to make!
DH: where??
Me: .... In the fridge.
DH: <opens fridge>... Oh...
Me: ....
DH: next time you go to Indiana, can you make me a list?

Pictured below: a list.

The good news is - we finished a major deadline for my project today! I plan to celebrate with at least a month of not being in Indiana.  

Yup.

So... We bought a motorcycle.

I'm somewhere between panic and pride. Riding a motorcycle is so fun you guys... But I know that we've now accepted an uncomfortable level of danger into our lives. We have mitigated or risks, to be sure, but the baseline remains. And truly, the same can be said of the mountains I climb every weekend and the rivers we ride in the spring. What can we do except accept the risk in exchange for joy? Maybe I'm being naïve, but we are not reckless people. We have calculated our level of crazy, and found it acceptable. 

Snowshoe adventures

The Locke in RMNP. Fantastic hike and a beautiful day. Things we have learned: summer trail maps in the winter = useless, frozen waterfalls coveted in snow look like hills, and it's difficult to jump in snowshoes. Good times had by all.

March

Back at it. This time as an instructor! So excited to get outside - Let's go.