You know what they say: new year, new bookshelves. I have been losing my mind. We have been diligent about unpacking, but all of my books have remained in boxes for three months now. Dan and I knew we wanted to install permanent, wall-mounted bookshelves, so there was no sense in unpacking them all twice. […]
Read MoreChristmas Day Part 2: Brunch at the Stanley
Following our Christmas Day visit to Rocky Mountain National Park, Dan and I headed east to Estes Park. Luckily we left some extra time, some of which we spent waiting for a herd of a few dozen elk to cross the street. They took their sweet time. No one seemed to mind. In case your […]
Read MoreChristmas Day Part 1: Rocky Mountain National Park
This is the first of two posts about how Dan and I spent Christmas Day 2017 — our first Christmas in Colorado. Following the lead of good friends such as Kate and Toni, we decided to spend Christmas at Rocky Mountain National Park. For Christmas last year, Dan gifted me a beautiful pair of Fimbulvetr […]
Read MoreThe $100 Lasagna
Look, Dan and I have no children. We have no pets. Now that we’re in Colorado we don’t have family around and many of our friends here travel home for the holidays or are busy with out-of-town guests. Though we love the break and the time together, Christmas means loooong spans of time that need […]
Read MoreThe jigsaw puzzle
This past summer, knowing that our move to Colorado was imminent, Dan and I invited both of our families to spend a week together in Outer Banks, North Carolina. The sleeper hit of that trip was a jigsaw puzzle by grandmother purchased — by the end of the week, it had absorbed nearly everyone in […]
Read MoreDumplings in Boulder
Merry Christmas, Boulder! Our friend Danny invited us to town for lunch at Zoe Ma Ma, a tiny restaurant full of “super yummy street food.” There are about 6 tables in the joint and the place was hopping. Danny moved to Colorado from Cincinnati about two weeks after we did — he understands our strange […]
Read MoreCheese Importers
A dusting! A dusting!! A paltry amount of snow has rolled into northern Colorado! Here is photo evidence from La Vita Bella Coffee in Longmont, where I had a coffee date with my delightful friend Anna. The drive was pretty and stark — the usually rust-colored mountains of the Front Range were (just barely) white with […]
Read MoreThe cover of our next album
I did not want to take a hike. Dan talked me into a walk along the Poudre River Trail, and of course we had a beautiful, chilly day with ideal lighting for photography.
Read MoreErica Reid, independent hiker
There are many reasons I have trepidation about hiking alone, and most of them stem from knowing myself very well. I have, for instance, the absolute worst sense of direction of anyone you have ever met. Couple that with my lifelong tendency to daydream even at the most critical of times, and — sorry, I […]
Read MoreYou’re a Reid now
Welcome to the family, Yeti SB5. You’re a Reid now. Make us proud. The SB5 is Dan’s first full-suspension mountain bike. Maybe a year ago he rented this same model while on a ride through Pisgah National Forest with his good friend and fellow daredevil Nathan. Dan came home obviously smitten with that mountain bike […]
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