We just got back from FL yesterday (that blog post will come later this week as we still have tons of pictures to siphon through), so of course our food stores in-house were very low. At this point in our lives, we make just about everything from scratch and we had nothing. Clearly a gigantic grocery shopping trip was in order to both Whole Foods and COSTCO…and that’s when the day got out of control. While shopping, we decided that today was the day we would try pickling some of our freshly purchased produce items…we have been talking about wanting to do this for weeks, so it seemed like a perfect activity. We picked up several canning jars, vinegar, cucumbers, onions, beets and carrots (among many many many other items) for pickling.

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Since we’ve been training hard for climbing all last fall and winter we decided to try and make the most of spring, summer & fall and go on a RAMPAGE in Colorado. At the same time, our tick list of places in/around Colorado have expanded to a hefty one…as far as we could tell there was only one solution to this. Mini-Road-Trip-Mania!

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The Christmas season (for us) started in early November. It began with the lights and decor. We decided to gradually add lights EVERYWHERE we could (both inside and out) and put up our tree / ornaments. We did this because we figured that if we waited until around Thanksgiving, when normal people start to put up lights, it would be too cold or we would not be motivated to do it. Plus we wanted to enjoy them for more than a few short weeks so we hit the ground running. We did have to wait a few weeks before we could turn on the outside lights because we have a super lame HOA (aka Horrible, Over-paid, A-holes) but there was no hesitation with any inside lights or the tree…we had that bad boy blazing since November 5th and didn’t look back!

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