Hey, a restaurant that’s newer to town than I am! Ginger and Baker has only been open a week or so. It’s an enormous complex with two restaurants, a pie and coffee shop, a cutesy gift shop, and a training kitchen. If the photos below look as though they were taken at different times of […]
Read MoreNorth Shields Ponds
Every time I drive down Shields Street, I see a sign with two happy-looking turtles on it. Today I came home full of pent-up energy and asked Dan if we could check out the turtle sign behind our house. After some decoding — any conversation between Dan and me requires a little bit of translation […]
Read MoreBas Bleu Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Before we settled on Fort Collins, Dan and I visited a handful of other neighborhoods across Colorado to see if they might be a fit for us. Often the towns would offer stunning mountain views, breweries galore… and more than an hour’s drive to anything resembling theater. In “FoCo,” Dan and I can drive a […]
Read MoreTwitter Day
About a decade ago, I made a handful of really great friends through Twitter. (Dan was one of those people, actually!) This weekend a pair of those friends were nearby — Lindsay and Tim were visiting Lindsay’s family in Denver for Thanksgiving. Dan and I met them in Golden, at a brewery where Lindsay’s brother’s […]
Read MoreScouting Soapstone Prairie
For Black Friday we scouted out Soapstone Prairie to see if it would be suitable for future mountain biking (…on Dan’s part). Soapstone is about 40 minutes north of our house, still within the city of Fort Collins and stretching almost to the Wyoming border. It. was so. windy. Whatever you’re imagining, triple it. (Unless […]
Read MoreEagles and turkeys
Our Thanksgiving began with a sleeping pill. Neither Dan nor I had been sleeping well, and our Thursday morning plans fell through (feel better, Justin!), so we crashed hard the night before with the help of some Unisom. Eventually we did drag ourselves out of the house to visit Eagle’s Nest. We had the trail […]
Read MoreDraplin Design Co.
One of the important things Dan and I have in common is that we are both curious people. We actively look for ways to broaden our horizons, and very rarely do I suggest we attend/visit/explore something that Dan turns his nose up at. I would say we are both hobby designers. Dan actually has a […]
Read MoreMy Otter Story, Part 2
When Otterbox saw the story of my positive experience in their shop, they offered to send me an Olly doll. He arrived today, with a few extra items of Otter swag. How do I look? You probably can’t tell that I’m also wearing Otter lip balm. #fangirl
Read MoreOzo, adventuremobile
One of the most surprising forms of support has been friends offering me connections with other friends and colleagues they know in Colorado. Yesterday I met one such friend in Longmont. Not only was it a fun and enlightening conversation (she has been in Colorado for about 6 months now), but she also scoped a […]
Read MoreMy Otter Story
You have probably heard of the company Otterbox — they are local to Fort Collins, and they have a brick-and-mortar store downtown. I spent a lot more time downtown than Dan does (what with him having a job and all), and so there are certain stores and restaurants that I “save” so that we can visit […]
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