glamping: part 2

**Of course there's a Part 2! Did you really think I could haul my you-know-what 23 miles in one day?!?! Actually, I'm pretty surprised I was able to do it in two (my you-know-what is VERY sore)! Oh yeah, the title of this post is not entirely accurate because I think we were too greasy/stinky/funky to qualify as "glampers" on day 2 - we were also out of boxed wine.**

Backpacking through the Crazy Mountains
with Hubs and Rosie C.W.

Day 2: Trespass Creek to Cottonwood Creek Trail Head

We woke up to this

started walking (if I wasn't wearing a backpack, this would have been a good meadow for some Sound-of-Music-style frolicking)

and then realized we had to hike up and over another steep mountain pass,
but this time with thunder rumbling in the sky.

Um, yeah, we RAN (I refuse to die by lightning strike)
pretty much the entire way back to the car.
I did stop for a millisecond to take a picture of the goats.
(I'd been looking for goats the whole trip)






















It started pouring as soon as we got in the car. We breathed a sigh of relief, and gobbled up several slices of slimy pepperoni. (Waste not, want not! It wouldn't have tasted as good anywhere else but at that moment anyway!)

glamping: part 1

**another non-Montessori post, sorry!**

Backpacking through the Crazy Mountains
with Hubs and Rosie C.W.

Day 1: Big Timber Creek to the S. Fork of Sweet Grass Creek Meadows

garlic scapes!

Who knew?
I bought a handful at the farmers' market today -
kind of tentacle-y, don't ya think?
I sauteed them in a big glob of butter...

and splashed them with soy sauce...

YUM!
(even though I did feel like I was eating green octopus legs)
If you've got a good garlic scape recipe, do tell.
I'm sure they're even better if you know what you're doing! :)

My lovely neighbor and friend
was selling her handmade skirts at the farmers' market, too.
This is the one I picked out - true love!
The fabric is a Heather Baily fabric - check it out here, if you're interested!

Sunday night on the farm

Yep. That crazy lady is me. This is what I do on Sunday nights at 9pm. This is what I do every night at 9pm. And I slap mosquitoes. Tonight was extra special, though, because in between watering my parched plants and fighting off mosquitoes, I ran inside and used a random number generator to determine the winner of the spectacular spoon give-a-way.
So...
without further ado....
the 6 spoons go to...

Susanne from Beautiful Sun Montessori
Check her out if you haven't already. She's a Montessori teacher in Aruba (lucky!) and she shares lots of neat things from her classroom!

I loved reading about what you all eat with spoons - sounds like most of you have a sweet tooth like me!

buzzzz!!!!

Hubs and I made this mason bee post about a month ago, and the bees have finally started moving in! We drilled holes into an old fence post - they're about 1/4" wide and go almost all the way to the back of the post.

We stuck the post in our backyard facing east. And now, a month later, mason bees have visited and laid their eggs. How exciting is that? (Unless Hubs is playing a trick on me and filling in the holes with mud himself.)

I think this project would be fun to do with children! Mason bees DON'T sting, and I can't wait to start watching them pollinate my flower beds. I've heard that watching bees is more fun that watching television. I almost believe it because it's been pretty darn fun just staring at the post!

This video showed us how to make our bee post. We didn't do the roof part, and it seems like it's still going to work. Beware, the mason bee song on this video is almost too catchy...