-Kate
Monday, November 29, 2010
MORE SNOW!!!
Still no pictures but it snowed about six inches last night so now everything really is covered in snow. I hope to go practice driving with Marci sometime this week. It looks like I will be coming home at the perfect time! Love yall
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thanksgiving in the Mountains
Hello All,
delinquent blogger here signing in. I wish I could post some pictures of all of the snow that we got last night, but I can't find the cord from my camera to my computer (could that be because my room looks like a pigsty?). I have been sitting here doing homework and admissions stuff all morning but it is hard to get work done when huge flakes of snow are swirling outside your window. Despite having worked the past six days (and the next four as well), I managed to squeak in a rather nice Thanksgiving with Marci, Carli, and a friend. We didn't have much but we had enough to fill us up and make it feel special. Marci cooked the turkey which turned out surprisingly well for her limited cooking skills and I fixed a strawberry spinach salad [thanks D] which also turned out surprisingly well. So, with our plates piled high with turkey and salad we sat around the island in the kitchen and pondered over which dessert we should have first. We had three different kinds of pumpkin pie, one which held a surprising amount of Jack Daniels, chocolate snowflake cookies which I made, and a bourbon filled chocolate one that had a creme de menthe topping. All in all, we were stuffed. The Palace was surprisingly slow on Thanksgiving thanks to the fact that it snowed just about the whole day contrary to weather reports. Only about 2/3 of the reservations showed up which was a bummer for all of us. However, at the end of our shift we ate a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner with mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, gravy, turkey, rolls, stuffing, and pumpkin pie topped with homemade whipped cream. So, both of my Thanksgivings were good, but I would have rather only had one and been home with yall. I hope all is well on the home front and I can't wait to see yall. Only 13 more days!!! Time really has flown up here.
Love yall much
-Kate
delinquent blogger here signing in. I wish I could post some pictures of all of the snow that we got last night, but I can't find the cord from my camera to my computer (could that be because my room looks like a pigsty?). I have been sitting here doing homework and admissions stuff all morning but it is hard to get work done when huge flakes of snow are swirling outside your window. Despite having worked the past six days (and the next four as well), I managed to squeak in a rather nice Thanksgiving with Marci, Carli, and a friend. We didn't have much but we had enough to fill us up and make it feel special. Marci cooked the turkey which turned out surprisingly well for her limited cooking skills and I fixed a strawberry spinach salad [thanks D] which also turned out surprisingly well. So, with our plates piled high with turkey and salad we sat around the island in the kitchen and pondered over which dessert we should have first. We had three different kinds of pumpkin pie, one which held a surprising amount of Jack Daniels, chocolate snowflake cookies which I made, and a bourbon filled chocolate one that had a creme de menthe topping. All in all, we were stuffed. The Palace was surprisingly slow on Thanksgiving thanks to the fact that it snowed just about the whole day contrary to weather reports. Only about 2/3 of the reservations showed up which was a bummer for all of us. However, at the end of our shift we ate a HUGE Thanksgiving dinner with mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, gravy, turkey, rolls, stuffing, and pumpkin pie topped with homemade whipped cream. So, both of my Thanksgivings were good, but I would have rather only had one and been home with yall. I hope all is well on the home front and I can't wait to see yall. Only 13 more days!!! Time really has flown up here.
Love yall much
-Kate
Friday, November 19, 2010
I miss you people.
Kate, you inspired me to cook.
Tomorrow night I am making Kevin and me tortilla soup (made in slow-cooker), corn/black bean/avocado salad, and chiabatta bread. So, as I write this, I am realizing two things: 1)I forgot to buy black beans at the store today (maybe I will make baked-bean salad instead. Yum.) 2)Chiabatta bread doesn't really fit the picture.
C'est la vie. I will let you all know how it turns out.
I love you all.
Selina
Tomorrow night I am making Kevin and me tortilla soup (made in slow-cooker), corn/black bean/avocado salad, and chiabatta bread. So, as I write this, I am realizing two things: 1)I forgot to buy black beans at the store today (maybe I will make baked-bean salad instead. Yum.) 2)Chiabatta bread doesn't really fit the picture.
C'est la vie. I will let you all know how it turns out.
I love you all.
Selina
Hi
So look who got to spend the cold November day on somebody's bed . . . .
Note the pretty cool design on that middle cup.
And not too much changes out in the hen pen.
Note the pretty cool design on that middle cup.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Things Going On In Kate's Head
1. Kate has decided to switch her major to Art History with a focus on Gothic architecture.
2. Kate made tons of soup yesterday and spent a good 45 min. this morning just trying to get it all into bags.
3. Kate has made nice with the boss that she previously hated and is finding much friendship in her colleagues at work.
4. Kate had pot stickers for dinner.
5. Kate wants a dog.
6. Kate can't get a dog.
7. If Kate could get a dog she would want a Newfoundland.
8. Kate has spent the past hour reading about the Newfoundland breed and drooling over pet adoption sites.
9. Kate wants a cat.
10. Kate misses her cat.
11. Kate might get to move into a bigger bedroom with her own bathroom in the spring.
12. It is 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside tonight.
13. Kate is warm under her covers.
14. Kate spent yesterday afternoon being moral support for Marci while car shopping.
15. Marci finally bought a car.
16. Kate is still thinking about switching her majors and wanting a dog.
17. Kate is also thinking about how great her orchestra performance went the other night.
18. Kate can't wait for the real performance in December.
19. Kate new favorite instrument but one that she would not like to play is the tympanum.
20. Kate is loving mom's idea about the frozen ciabatta rolls.
21. Kate thanks mom.
22. Kate is missing her dear family much this evening.
23. Kate can't wait to be home for Christmas.
24. Kate is wishing that she had taken pictures of the soup to show yall how beautiful it turned out.
25. Kate has discovered that a perk of living in the cold is being able to use the back porch as a giant refrigerator.
26. Kate has discovered that sometimes when it is below freezing, stuff left on the back porch freezes as well.
27. Kate found 1" worth of frozen soup in the pot this morning.
28. Kate noted the irony of thawing soup so that it could be fit into the real freezer.
29. Kate keeps using first person grammar even though she is writing in the third person.
30. Kate went out to eat yesterday for the first time (The Palace does not count) since moving to Durango.
31. Kate discovered the wonderful fish tacos at Zia Taqueria.
32. *singing* "If I were a rich man. Deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumm. All day long I'd eat a fish taco..."
33. Kate's landlady got laid off (don't worry downsizing was expected) and thus we will actually be having Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving.
34. Kate still has not made up her mind on what to fix.
35. Kate is getting tired thinking of what she is thinking.
36. Kate says goodnight.
37. Kate loves yall much
38. Kate says DDL and sends xoxoxoxo yalls way.
2. Kate made tons of soup yesterday and spent a good 45 min. this morning just trying to get it all into bags.
3. Kate has made nice with the boss that she previously hated and is finding much friendship in her colleagues at work.
4. Kate had pot stickers for dinner.
5. Kate wants a dog.
6. Kate can't get a dog.
7. If Kate could get a dog she would want a Newfoundland.
8. Kate has spent the past hour reading about the Newfoundland breed and drooling over pet adoption sites.
9. Kate wants a cat.
10. Kate misses her cat.
11. Kate might get to move into a bigger bedroom with her own bathroom in the spring.
12. It is 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside tonight.
13. Kate is warm under her covers.
14. Kate spent yesterday afternoon being moral support for Marci while car shopping.
15. Marci finally bought a car.
16. Kate is still thinking about switching her majors and wanting a dog.
17. Kate is also thinking about how great her orchestra performance went the other night.
18. Kate can't wait for the real performance in December.
19. Kate new favorite instrument but one that she would not like to play is the tympanum.
20. Kate is loving mom's idea about the frozen ciabatta rolls.
21. Kate thanks mom.
22. Kate is missing her dear family much this evening.
23. Kate can't wait to be home for Christmas.
24. Kate is wishing that she had taken pictures of the soup to show yall how beautiful it turned out.
25. Kate has discovered that a perk of living in the cold is being able to use the back porch as a giant refrigerator.
26. Kate has discovered that sometimes when it is below freezing, stuff left on the back porch freezes as well.
27. Kate found 1" worth of frozen soup in the pot this morning.
28. Kate noted the irony of thawing soup so that it could be fit into the real freezer.
29. Kate keeps using first person grammar even though she is writing in the third person.
30. Kate went out to eat yesterday for the first time (The Palace does not count) since moving to Durango.
31. Kate discovered the wonderful fish tacos at Zia Taqueria.
32. *singing* "If I were a rich man. Deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumm. All day long I'd eat a fish taco..."
33. Kate's landlady got laid off (don't worry downsizing was expected) and thus we will actually be having Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving.
34. Kate still has not made up her mind on what to fix.
35. Kate is getting tired thinking of what she is thinking.
36. Kate says goodnight.
37. Kate loves yall much
38. Kate says DDL and sends xoxoxoxo yalls way.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
I can't think of a good title.
Howdy all,
I hope yall have had a productive weekend. I spent the day out at Hope and Tony's knitting, reading, studying, and practicing violin. It was good to have a change of scenery for a bit. Tomorrow is going to be an exceptionally busy day so this is going to be a short post. Starting at 7:30 I take Carli to school, then go to the grocery, at 11:15 head to work, at 3:30 I have orchestra rehearsal, and at 5:00 I have my first orchestra concert up at the college. It is part of a one day music festival for the kids at the middle and high school, so about 70 kids will be joining us in performing Finlandia. It is going to be crazy because we only get one rehearsal all together, but I am looking forward to it. Our real concert is not until December but because of the festival and Thanksgiving and blah blah blah, we will only have one more rehearsal until our performance which is crazy and a bit stressfull, but I'm sure all will turn out well. Well, I should head to bed. Love yall!!!
-Kate
p.s. Mom- Sorry I missed your call yet again, I am not very good about keeping my phone with me. I didn't want to call you while you were in Houston cause I knew you would probably be out and about, but I will put an honest effort into calling you tomorrow :)
I hope yall have had a productive weekend. I spent the day out at Hope and Tony's knitting, reading, studying, and practicing violin. It was good to have a change of scenery for a bit. Tomorrow is going to be an exceptionally busy day so this is going to be a short post. Starting at 7:30 I take Carli to school, then go to the grocery, at 11:15 head to work, at 3:30 I have orchestra rehearsal, and at 5:00 I have my first orchestra concert up at the college. It is part of a one day music festival for the kids at the middle and high school, so about 70 kids will be joining us in performing Finlandia. It is going to be crazy because we only get one rehearsal all together, but I am looking forward to it. Our real concert is not until December but because of the festival and Thanksgiving and blah blah blah, we will only have one more rehearsal until our performance which is crazy and a bit stressfull, but I'm sure all will turn out well. Well, I should head to bed. Love yall!!!
-Kate
p.s. Mom- Sorry I missed your call yet again, I am not very good about keeping my phone with me. I didn't want to call you while you were in Houston cause I knew you would probably be out and about, but I will put an honest effort into calling you tomorrow :)
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Look what I woke up to...
I rolled over, open the curtains, grabbed my camera, and shot this
Eleanor enjoying a Swedish snow bath.
Shoes got wet at work and spent the night outside...being wet is now the least of their problems.
On our back porch with my new boots
A beautiful snow covered valley.
I have to go take Carli to school...love yall!!!
-Kate
AKA Snow Bunny
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
FIRST SNOW!!!
Hello All,
I am thouroughly exhausted after a surprisingly long shirft at work and I am simultaniously not wearing my glasses and too lazy to wakl across my small room to go get them. My vision seems to get worse by the day so no promises on spelling or typos because I can't tell the difference :) However, the big news is that it snowed for the first time in Durnaog this afternoon. I walked out of class and to my surprise and amazement, it was snowing!!! Now, I don't mean blizzard snow and it was not cold enought to stick but there were some defineite snow flurries winding their way around the parking lot. To honor the snow, I went down to the Steaming Bean and sat with my cup of coffee knitting while being totlaly mesmerized by the whirling white stuff outside. It felt like a happy combonation of Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland (interesting mental pictures come to mind). I thien rushed to work (almost late because I forgot to iron my pants...that is what you call a quickchange!) and ended up staying late to cover for some folks. Only two servers showed up today out of the expected four servers and two bussers. Thus, the rest of us were subjected to the boss' rage at the missing people and the crowds that seemed to keep on coming like we were Noah's ark in the flood. But, more tips for me! Tomorrow (or really whenever I get around to it) I will post pictures of the snow falling on the mountains. I didn't have my camera with me when it was snowing here, but I hope I was able to capture the massive white/grey clouds of snow that were enveloping the La Platas across from our porch. Well, I really must get to bed as tomorrow is a long day as well. I love yall more than first snows!!!
Good night (English)
Head ööd (Estonian)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (Tibetan)
An guuta nacht (Cimbrian)
Fonaneng (Sesotho)
Buinegnot (Friulian)
تصبح على خير(Arabic)
Қайырлы түн (Kazakh)
Unnuaqhatkut (Inuktitut)
Oidhche mhath (Scottish Gaelic)
शुभ रात्री (Nepali)
Goeienaacht (Stellingwarfs)
Lala kahle! (Zulu)
สวัสดีครับ/ค่ะ (Thai)
Dobranoc (Polish)
Сайхан унтаарай (Mongolian)
Axşamınız xeyir (Azerbaijani)
Góða nótt (Icelandic)
לילה טוב(Hebrew)
Sinilluaritsi (Greenlandic)
Բարի' գիշեր (Armenian)
Bonne soir (French)
-Kate
I am thouroughly exhausted after a surprisingly long shirft at work and I am simultaniously not wearing my glasses and too lazy to wakl across my small room to go get them. My vision seems to get worse by the day so no promises on spelling or typos because I can't tell the difference :) However, the big news is that it snowed for the first time in Durnaog this afternoon. I walked out of class and to my surprise and amazement, it was snowing!!! Now, I don't mean blizzard snow and it was not cold enought to stick but there were some defineite snow flurries winding their way around the parking lot. To honor the snow, I went down to the Steaming Bean and sat with my cup of coffee knitting while being totlaly mesmerized by the whirling white stuff outside. It felt like a happy combonation of Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland (interesting mental pictures come to mind). I thien rushed to work (almost late because I forgot to iron my pants...that is what you call a quickchange!) and ended up staying late to cover for some folks. Only two servers showed up today out of the expected four servers and two bussers. Thus, the rest of us were subjected to the boss' rage at the missing people and the crowds that seemed to keep on coming like we were Noah's ark in the flood. But, more tips for me! Tomorrow (or really whenever I get around to it) I will post pictures of the snow falling on the mountains. I didn't have my camera with me when it was snowing here, but I hope I was able to capture the massive white/grey clouds of snow that were enveloping the La Platas across from our porch. Well, I really must get to bed as tomorrow is a long day as well. I love yall more than first snows!!!
Good night (English)
Head ööd (Estonian)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (Tibetan)
An guuta nacht (Cimbrian)
Fonaneng (Sesotho)
Buinegnot (Friulian)
تصبح على خير(Arabic)
Қайырлы түн (Kazakh)
Unnuaqhatkut (Inuktitut)
Oidhche mhath (Scottish Gaelic)
शुभ रात्री (Nepali)
Goeienaacht (Stellingwarfs)
Lala kahle! (Zulu)
สวัสดีครับ/ค่ะ (Thai)
Dobranoc (Polish)
Сайхан унтаарай (Mongolian)
Axşamınız xeyir (Azerbaijani)
Góða nótt (Icelandic)
לילה טוב(Hebrew)
Sinilluaritsi (Greenlandic)
Բարի' գիշեր (Armenian)
Bonne soir (French)
-Kate
Zdravei! Hafa adai! Mambo!
That is hello in Bulgarian, Chamorran, Conganese.
I wouldn't do any extensive research on those words. Let's pretend that I got it right.
Kate and Dad, I enjoyed your photos. I am glad that Colorado has spared my sweet sister another week without frostbite.
I am preparing for an in-class essay in tomorrow's American Literature class. I think the first part of the test on Monday went well, which makes up for a sad calculus grade. Don't ask. I look forward to studying the difference between the common cold, sinus infections, allergies, the flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, etc. I have one of them. We have been talking a bit about viruses in Biology. Fun stuff!
Anyways, I hope you are all doing well. I miss each of you.
Akwar nojoka("good evening" in Utesan, spoken in Uganda).
Peace,
Selina
I wouldn't do any extensive research on those words. Let's pretend that I got it right.
Kate and Dad, I enjoyed your photos. I am glad that Colorado has spared my sweet sister another week without frostbite.
I am preparing for an in-class essay in tomorrow's American Literature class. I think the first part of the test on Monday went well, which makes up for a sad calculus grade. Don't ask. I look forward to studying the difference between the common cold, sinus infections, allergies, the flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, etc. I have one of them. We have been talking a bit about viruses in Biology. Fun stuff!
Anyways, I hope you are all doing well. I miss each of you.
Akwar nojoka("good evening" in Utesan, spoken in Uganda).
Peace,
Selina
Monday, November 8, 2010
Crappy Phone Photos, but Thought You Deserved a Couple Peaks Anyhow
Here is Adair and the family of Vance fixin' to eat over at Hope and Tony's.
And then the next morning after UT's loss. Hard to see it, but Guapo is dressed in burnt orange, too.
And finally, my view of the HSB creek a couple hours ago. Always sane, that creek.
Revisiting Mom's Trip
Hey All,
I just remembered that I forgot to post the pictures from the last day that Mom was up here of our hike on the Telegraph trails. While colder than a polar bears backside, we did have fun.
I just remembered that I forgot to post the pictures from the last day that Mom was up here of our hike on the Telegraph trails. While colder than a polar bears backside, we did have fun.
Interesting frost-cicles
The ever-energetic speed hiker
Print of unknown animal.
I am anxiously awaiting the drying of my pants in hopes that I won't have to wear wet ones to work...again. Laundry procrastination is not the best of my qualities but it is better than some. It has been "warm" these past few days and almost all of the snow on the mountain that I took pictures of is gone. It is sad to see it go, but a relief that we can go one more week without snow. I can't wait to see yall in December and tell Mao hi for me. Love yall!!!
xoxoxoxoxo
-Kate