I'm hosting a meeting at my house in the morning. I caught the baking bug this week and decided to bake something with pumpkin and ended up with muffins. The recipe > Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins <


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I've been itching to go on a hike and on Sunday morning I spontaneously decided to hike the North Rim Trail in Upper Bidwell Park.  I've lived here all of my life but I've never hiked the trails in upper park before. The North Trail is 7.5 miles, a steady 900 foot climb, and 4 hours round trip. I slept very well last night. ;)

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My friend was having a movie/tv themed Halloween Party last Saturday. I wore cargo pants and my black BDU top with the American flag and Atlantis patch. :D

On Halloween, I played my church job in the morning. It amuses me that a secular holiday such as Halloween fell on a Sunday this year. In the afternoon, I helped to pick up windfalls in the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went for a walk down to the creek behind the orchards. It looks like this in the spring time:


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Another amazing conference! So many informative sessions covering the business side of teaching, teaching (phrasing, shaping, performance anxiety), and music history. I try to go every 2 years (it's an annual conference) and the one 2 years from now is in New York City, a place I haven't been to yet so I will need to start saving up for that ( Read more... )

I've been up since 4-something am. *yawn* The cat decided to play under the door to my room (the door was closed) and she rattled her paw under the door and made noises that woke me up. I got up to shoo her away and the dogs decided they wanted out ( Read more... )

A low key  morning this morning. Time for breakfast and internet.

This afternoon we attended the Colorado Scottish Festival. There were pipe bands playing all afternoon. Listening to the pipe band playing at the midday ceremony was amazing!

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Paying $12 to get into the Denver Botanic Gardens was so worth it for this:

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And there were pretty flowers and trees there too.

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After a morning in the garden, my uncle took us to lunch. Then we went to see his new house - gorgeous! And it's so big! Spent time chatting with the ( Read more... )

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