by Kelli Donley | Jun 13, 2011 | Colorado, Fruitful Harvest, Happy Hippie, Heirloom Homestead
Underneath all of those weeds, there was a stack of paving stones and three garden boxes. They are now planted with an abundance of squash, turnips, radishes and one lone tomato plant. Thankfully I now have a steady supply of coffee grounds I can add to the soil...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 12, 2011 | Colorado, Flora and Fauna, Heirloom Homestead
I am not a fan of weeding. I like being outside in the garden in every other capacity. Weeding is like picking a fight with the slow, violent and mean kids in junior high — miserable, prickly, and entirely unnecessary. Alas, this new non-desert environment is...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 11, 2011 | Colorado, Heirloom Homestead
I have a new love of two things: scarves and champagne. Yep, call me Buffy. Give me a copy of the Preppy Handbook. Collars up! I KNOW. Both are a bit pretentious, and yet? Fun. Scarves are worn, so it seems, year round in Denver. Having moved from the clothing land of...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 7, 2011 | Colorado
I went for a hike last week to the top of the M — M for Mines, Colorado School of Mines, and Mount Zion. I only made it to the M, not to the top of Lookout Point — some 3 miles farther along, but it was a triumph. I’ve climbed this trail a dozen...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 2, 2011 | Colorado, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
I’ve long said if I could start over at high school graduation I’d have gone to culinary school. Or maybe the Rhode Island School of Design for pattern making. Amazing how interests change with time; when I graduated from high school, I knew I wanted to be...
by Kelli Donley | May 31, 2011 | Colorado
The Denver Zoo is pretty fantastic. People — they have polar bears. REAL, LIVE POLAR BEARS! Coming from the Phoenix Zoo — which is so dang great in desert big horn sheep, gila monster ways — polar bears might as well be unicorns. And although they...
