Environmental Action

Supporting Tim DeChristopher with Kathy.

Blue Skies on My Birthday

We went snowshoeing up around the NOEC Yurt on my birthday. It was great.

Snowy Phone Shots

I worked hard at snowboarding this year and I will have to continue working at next season.

We have friends with a cabin in Big Cottonwood and Keith went backcountry skiing in the afternoon. I went snowboarding that morning and we switched at lunch.

This is Keith coming down the half pipe.

Easter

Here are the Easter eggs I felted with boys.

Here are the chicks I knitted.

Here is Charlie's sheep, Owen. He named him after his a friend of Sam's from school who he loves.

Oh, Charlie!

On April 27, 2011, Charlie pooped in the potty.  This is what we call "Poop Ice Cream".

Charlie floating.

Big gash from the garden. Garden Gash.

Pygmy goats at our community garden. I'm on the board of directors there.  Yes, I am doing too much.

Winter Activities

Sam and Charlie starting taking swimming lessons in April and by the end of June of some intensive daily lessons, they were both comfortable in the pool. We just started swimming lessons again and will continue until skiing starts in January (or we might start the later ski lessons in Feb/March so it won't be so cold).

Sam is fascinated with scale and geometry. We started working with the Pythagorean Thereom this summer and he has had a lot of fun with that.

This is Sam on a skiing lunch break. It is so great that we can ski WITH Sam (and we didn't have the angst of teaching him!). I can't wait until we can all ski as a family.

Late Winter Moments

This is Sam's piano lesson with Lillian. He took the summer off, but I asked him if he wanted to take another instrument in the fall and he said no. He'll start violin at Weilenmann School of Discovery this year and have piano lessons Monday afternoons.

We grew many different things from seed starting in February for our grand garden experiment. We had success and failure. The tomatoes died before transplanting, but the peppers have done pretty well and the columbine flowers I planted from seed are growing well too. It was such an long winter that many experienced gardeners are shocked that they still don't have tomatoes or are concerned that many things won't be ripe by the time the first snow hits - early to late October usually. We don't have many tomotoes yet (any day), lots of jalapenos and other hot peppers, lots of butternut squash, tomatillos, two watermelons, and onions. Our bell peppers might not happen before frost.

In April, I went crazy knitting little chicks for Easter. It was the last knitting I did before the weather reached about 50 degrees because an epic yard mess took the rest of the summer to deal with.

I'm now the Co-Director of the Norwegian Outdoor Exploration Center (www.thenoec.org ). Since I have been there I watched the Sandhill Cranes nest and raise their babies. I've also added programs and moved us to a more organized and professional non-profit.
Our office is at the Swaner EcoCenter (www.swanerecocenter.org ) in Park City and I work mostly from home, but am in the gorgeous office about once a week. I am also in the process of adding clients again.

Testing Again

I got a much needed computer awhile ago and was investigating new photo/blogging software, but finally just decided to go with Picasa again and blogging should start like an avalanche soon. I hope these pictures show.