May 2012
Memorial Day Weekend 2012
28/05/12 18:32 Filed in: Travel
Posted by: Becca and Kyle
It is Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer and the official start of pictures of Becca and Kyle in stretchy clothes season. This weekend we headed north to Wyoming for some mountain biking. The first day we rode in Curt Gowdy State Park. It was awesome.
We camped (slept in the Element) in Medicine Bow National Forest. It was a beautiful camp spot, but a little windy and it got very cold at night.
A little two-buck chuck, straight out the bottle. Classy.
Day two started out cold and windy. We sat in the car waiting for it to get warmer, but it never did. So we stopped being wimps and biked in the national forest on the Happy Jack trails. They were some of the nicest trails ever.
Day three started about 4 am, when we were sure we were freezing to death. We started the Element and fell back asleep. After an hour or two nap with the car idling (not very green, we know), we packed up the car and headed south. We stopped in Fort Collins, one of the greatest places ever, and rode our bikes in the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space. It was the hardest riding we did, but very pretty. We made sure to have some gelato before heading home.
It is Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer and the official start of pictures of Becca and Kyle in stretchy clothes season. This weekend we headed north to Wyoming for some mountain biking. The first day we rode in Curt Gowdy State Park. It was awesome.
We camped (slept in the Element) in Medicine Bow National Forest. It was a beautiful camp spot, but a little windy and it got very cold at night.
A little two-buck chuck, straight out the bottle. Classy.
Day two started out cold and windy. We sat in the car waiting for it to get warmer, but it never did. So we stopped being wimps and biked in the national forest on the Happy Jack trails. They were some of the nicest trails ever.
Day three started about 4 am, when we were sure we were freezing to death. We started the Element and fell back asleep. After an hour or two nap with the car idling (not very green, we know), we packed up the car and headed south. We stopped in Fort Collins, one of the greatest places ever, and rode our bikes in the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space. It was the hardest riding we did, but very pretty. We made sure to have some gelato before heading home.
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Garden
20/05/12 17:21 Filed in: Home
Posted by: Becca & Kyle
We've been doing some work in our garden over the past few weekends. It's not real big - this is all we have to work with:
We added some plants to provide some color later in the summer and fall, like echinacea, hyssop, asters, daisies, and penstemon. We also updated our soaker hose system. It's on a timer, so everything gets watered automatically. Our timer and manifold:
Some of the 100' of hose in our small garden:
Even our planter barrels are on the soaker hose system.
A couple of years ago, we built a privacy wall for our patio from which we could hang hanging baskets. Last year, the bastards (HOA) cut it down and replaced it with a very nice, low plastic wall. We built a planter box to add a little height to the wall and provide another place for plants:
It gets watered automatically, too:
We filled it with geraniums and red basil:
We also got some petunias, asiatic lilies, bacopa, and calibrachoa,
which we put in some pots for our stoop:
The finished product:
The garden frog back in the garden after a winter inside:
We've been doing some work in our garden over the past few weekends. It's not real big - this is all we have to work with:
We added some plants to provide some color later in the summer and fall, like echinacea, hyssop, asters, daisies, and penstemon. We also updated our soaker hose system. It's on a timer, so everything gets watered automatically. Our timer and manifold:
Some of the 100' of hose in our small garden:
Even our planter barrels are on the soaker hose system.
A couple of years ago, we built a privacy wall for our patio from which we could hang hanging baskets. Last year, the bastards (HOA) cut it down and replaced it with a very nice, low plastic wall. We built a planter box to add a little height to the wall and provide another place for plants:
It gets watered automatically, too:
We filled it with geraniums and red basil:
We also got some petunias, asiatic lilies, bacopa, and calibrachoa,
which we put in some pots for our stoop:
The finished product:
The garden frog back in the garden after a winter inside: