BYOB

Rainbow Tree

The first snowfall around a week ago took a lot of trees by surprise. This one in front of our building was so cool looking I snapped a few photos.

Mines, Gold, and Me

My brother sent me a weird article from the Rocky Mountain News which I'm posting a link to here. For all those who want to know, my dad was an electrical engineer who worked at a few gold mines. I was born in Leadville, Colorado. We were called "cloud babies" because the town is located at over 10,000 feet in elevation. My dad worked at a mine called Climax which was closed in the eighties which is why we moved. So it was a surprise to hear it is re-opening!! Crazy! Now I wish I had bought that coffee shop in Leadville :)

The above photo of Harrison Avenue in Leadville is from Dave Nance's website who takes beautiful photos.

Bagless Resolution

My husband came up with a great New Year's resolution. We are going to go plastic bag free for the year. Right now we have canvass bags from Albertson's grocery store and a few that my mom gave us last year. We even a couple monster bags from IKEA which we use to pick up 20 pound dog food bags from the pet store. But we sometimes forget and then have to use plastic. For instance, I was going to swing by the grocery store after work today to get dinner stuff and forgot to pack the bags. So Robb found some really cool alternatives bags so we can start going bag free. Check out Baggu Bags. We are going to get some because these fold up so nice and compact...which doesn't really happen with our other bags. And they come in fun colors....Robb just made fun of me liking the "peacock" color. I can now use our old canvas bags for recycling bins in our kitchen :)

Wait Wait!

I have to post this because I was listening to it on my iPod on my way to work this morning. NPR has a great radio program called Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. I love love this show. It is hilarious, informative, witty, has cool guests, and is sometimes better than a book for not falling asleep on the train during morning commute. Today's show had Stephen Colbert as a guest. The show is like a games show where it's about the news, current events, etc. But it's super funny. Check it out either online, download to your mp3 player, or catch it on the radio.

Just a Few More Days

So I've been not so good with my blog lately. December 14 is my last day of class and until that date (just in one class) I have a paper and a minimum five-page website due. Aaaahhhhh!!! So after I'm done I'll be posting more. I have tons of photos to upload from my walk around town capturing Christmas lights, to fall colors of our park, to Thanksgiving photos, and Robb and I at Rockefeller Center for the tree lighting. I may even post my home page for my website...I's so proud I'm not even using helpers like Microsoft Publisher. So don't give up on me!

Book Club

My sister and her good friend came up with the idea of starting a book club. I've made a second blog for it and the link is listed with the other links to the right. All three of us used to or still do live in Nevada so it is the NV Book Club Kind of sounds like Envy Book Club :) Anyway...it is my job to pick a few books so we can choose which one will be our first book to read. If you want to join just let me know! I'll give all members access to post online and we'll see if it works!