Winter Bike to Work Day

I braved the weather for Winter Bike to Work Day. Wasn’t too bad – 10F, that’s warm compared to the weather we’ve been having!  Only a 3 mile commute. Tree is up, we'll post pics soon. Supposed to be getting internet tonight.

 

First I stopped at Snooze, they had cinnamon roll pancakes and veggie breakfast burritos.

Second Stop - Next the gardens at CSU, very close to my work.

Freebies! Not that great compared to the past ones in Boulder but I’m not complaining. O’Dell is giving free beer to bikers tonight, depending on the darkness level I might try to go.

Soup & Beer

With the recent cold weather we have pretty much been eating soup haha. We made this last week, no recipe or name, used kale from the garden and smoked chicken sausage, almost like a minestrone. Going to make green chili tonight, have 1/2 bushel of roasted peppers in the freezer we need to use up.

I brewed a batch of beer over the weekend with Erik. The cold weather helped, we used snow to chill the wort (along with a wort chiller), took less than 10 minutes to get it from ~150F to 100F.

The Coopers got me the kit for my birthday, it is based off Bell's Two Hearted IPA, can't wait to try it! Erik said it is bubbling a lot = good sign.

Yummy

We found the a amazing French bakery yesterday, I literally wanted to buy everything there! We ended up getting a spinach/cheese & ham/cheese croissant and a Nutella beignet . Also  pistachio and salted caramel macaron. Next time anyone visit we should go!

 

http://www.fortcollinscreperiebakery.com/

Holiday Party

Tebo Holiday Party

Steph and I went down to Boulder Friday night to volunteer at the Tebo Party. He is a wealthy real estate owner in Boulder, has a big party every year and picks a non-profit to run the coat check (and collect the tips).

We were mostly working the whole time but got a chance to walk around the party a few times. It was funny seeing all the Boulder people dressed up, lots of bright colors / eccentric wear haha. There were even guys in lederhosen, we thought they were being goofy but they were actually German.

We went to St. Julian hotel afterwards with the CareConnect volunteers, pictures are from there.

Mom is happy

At the Kitchen store in fort collins...