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One Pumpkin = Multiple Green Hours

Oct 31 2011

How many Green Hours can come from one bright and happy orange pumpkin? At our house, more than you can count! The first one was of course the Sunday afternoon excursion to the local pumpkin patch a few weeks ago (in costume of course). C took his pumpkin-picking-out job very seriously, and made sure to inspect EVERY pumpkin in the patch before finally deciding on the lucky orange friend that got to come home with us. Next came Carving Day. We decided that this would be safest as an entire family activity.…Read the rest of this entry →

Gourmet Camping (aka Ode to Jetboil)

Jul 12 2009

If you have ever been camping with me, you have heard me sing high praise for the Jetboil system. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, the Jetboil is NOT a communicable skin disease transmitted on airplanes, but rather, a portable, personal cooking system. According to their website, the Jetboil is a “complete food and beverage multitool.” Steve and I received our Jetboils for Christmas in 2006 in anticipation of a backcountry canoe/hiking trip to the Everglades for New Year’s 07. Since then, we have never been camping without it! For a long time we stuck to the tried…Read the rest of this entry →

“Good Marriage” Bars

Jun 06 2009

I went to a wedding shower for Lisette, my friend and co-worker, on on Thursday night. For the past few weeks, she and I have had this endless conversation about these granola bars that I make. When we first started talking about it, I gave her the recipe, but she misplaced it. I wrote it out a second time, but she had not had a chance to make them yet. But we’ve been talking about them forever. Well, I decided that even though it had nothing to do with a wedding, I would make some for her and throw them in…Read the rest of this entry →

“Not all who wander are lost.” —JRR TOLKIEN