April 3 – Library

Back at the new library in the kids area.

March 30 – Everyday Joe’s

Everyday Joe’s Coffee was the site of the first NoCo Bloggers Meetup. I took a great picture of everyone smiling, light looked o.k., but the shutter was open just a bit too long and it’s blurry. Then I took another with the flash – and everyone looked drunk. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that state of being, except its documentation by a stranger.)

The building was originally a gas station in the 1920s (?). Now it is a church 1 day a week and a coffee house the rest. Great business, great architecture, great coffee, kind souls.

March 28 – Library Art

This is the art installation hanging from the ceiling of the Council Tree branch of the local library. The library opened today and was PACKED!

I couldn’t find info on the artist and will add it in the future.

March 27 – Snow Day!

Yesterday, the whopper arrived – the biggest storm all winter. It was icy, Fort Collins got over a foot in snow, and they sent the kids home at 11am. Today was a “snow day”.

Looks rough out, doesn’t it?

March 26 – Storm of the Year

Who left the screen door open?

March 25 – Sunny snow?

We’ve been promised a whopper of a storm tomorrow. An inch or two tonight, then whammo!  Feet. It was over 70 degrees all weekend long.

At 5pm or so it started, ever so slightly, to snow. The specks in the picture are not dust.

March 22 – Boating

At one point, Spring Creek in Fort Collins widens enough to accommodate small boats.  These boys were having a great time in the 70+ degree weather!

I love the one boy’s straw hat.

March 8 – Melting Pot

Last night, everyone was feeling healthy enough to celebrate Cole’s birthday. Of course, the only place he wanted to go was the Melting Pot for fondue. Luckily for us, Fort Collins has a special event every March called Great Plates. It’s a two week extravaganza of $18.68 meals at many downtown restaurants.

For this measly price, we ate:

• Cheddar Cheese Fondue with unlimited apples, bread & veggies for dipping
• Chopped Caesar Salad
• Regular oil fondue, (couldn’t convince the kids to upgrade to Coq au Vin) with shrimp, teriyaki sirloin, chili marinated chicken, honey dijon hicken, Portobello Mumshrooms and pot stickers. This also came with potatoes, mushroom caps and broccoli.

This came with a sesame and tempura batters, which were a big hit. We ate everything, with an extra bowl of the veggies. Cody’s favorite was the tempura broccoli. Cole & I liked stuffing the mushroom caps then dipping them in tempura batter.

You can’t get out of this place without dessert, so we added a $16 Chocolate Fondue for Two, although it would have fed 6.

The food was good, dinner was cheap (for fondue), we found a new idea (tempura batter!) for the next time we fondue at home, so overall the night was a big success.

Well, except for the picture.

March 7 – Blizzard

March blizzard, lasting an hour or so. the temperatures dropped from the 70s this week to around 40 degrees, so there was thick, heavy, wet snow.

Sunday morning and it’s still here, no need to shovel, just a sprinkling of white.

March 6 – Another morning shot

Every morning I get up and turn on the coffee, passing a wall of windows and this view. The homes are facing the rising sun and reflecting off their windows. After living in Phoenix for 13 years and rising to a view of the slump block fence around my home, I am mesmerized by the light and views in Fort Collins.

Not that Phoenix doesn’t have it’s charms. We moved 9 months ago and I still check my shoes every morning for scorpions. Old habits…