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Day 5 Race to the Finish (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on09. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 5
We spent our last day at Arches hiking the shorter hikes just off the road like Balanced Rock. Then we ended up at Sand Dune Arch. This is my favorite place at Arches and I was excited to introduce my children to it.
They caught on pretty quickly that this is a place to run [...]
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Day 4–Cold, Cold Day 4 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on08. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Cold, Cold Day 4
It poured rain all night while the wind blew so hard at times I thought the trailer would fall off it’s jacks. So what do you do when it’s cold and rainy? Get in the car and drive to La Sal.
Why La Sal? Fifteen years ago my husband and I honeymooned in [...]
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Day 3 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on07. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 3
Back to Arches we went. We started out at Devils’ Garden so we could see multiple arches along the way to our ultimate destination: Double O. We passed a man in shorts and sandals getting out of his car. No shirt. My two-year-old pointed and said, “Go bath huh Mom. Go bath.”
It was quite [...]
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Dump Cake
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Let’s make a birthday cake without an oven. My sister-in-law, Heidi, brought this recipe back from a Colorado ranch she worked on in the summers. This is so easy to do in your dutch oven. Plus, you can bake it in a 9 x 13 pan at 350° and get great results as well. Let’s [...]
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Day 2 (Spring Break 2010)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
Day 2
Tuesday morning we hiked to Delicate Arch. It turned out to be my five-year-old’s favorite hike. Kind of surprising since it’s one of the longest in the park. He hiked all the way in and out without complaint, and never lagged behind. He later told me he wished Delicate Arch was closer to our [...]
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Spring Break 2010
Posted on05. Apr, 2010 by Kate.
I hope you all had a beautiful Easter celebrating our Savior. Maybe you noticed I was absent all last week. Our family took off on a week long spring break trip. It’s the first time we’ve had an entire week for spring break so we decided to take full advantage and borrowed my parents’ camping [...]
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Rebecca Shelley
Posted on21. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
Rebecca Shelley graciously accepted an invitation to visit our five local elementary schools and do a book signing at our local library. I’m so glad she did; I truly enjoyed getting to know her and her husband. Rebecca is the author of Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex. The many dragon fans in our [...]
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Poor Man’s Steak
Posted on18. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
Here’s an inexpensive steak dish that my family enjoys. I’m quite picky about the ground beef recipes I like to eat, and I especially detest little bits of ground beef disguised in casseroles. I make vegetarian lasagna and spaghetti for that reason. (If I want some protein with my spaghetti, I’ll prepare chicken cacciatore instead [...]
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Seed-Starting Rack and an Anniversary
Posted on17. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
Last year about this time my friend Jennifer posted a guide for making an Easy Seed-Starting Rack on the Backyard Farming blog. This past Saturday my husband decided it was time to make our own. This isn’t exactly like the one Jennifer and Jeff made because we used the materials we had in our basement [...]
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Matthew Buckley
Posted on14. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
Once again I convinced an author to spend a day here presenting to our five elementary schools and finishing up with a signing at the library. To our good fortune, Matthew Buckley was the latest author to agree to this exhaustive schedule.
He’s published two books with a traditional publisher, and is currently in the [...]
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Kimberly Job
Posted on11. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
After my last post, I decided to check out some of the other authors who will be at the launch party on March 16 at the Barnes & Nobles in the Gateway. I visited Kimberly’s blog and learned about her Favorite Things Giveway to celebrate the release of her debut novel I’ll Know You By [...]
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New Book Releases
Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Kate.
(Disclaimer: My two-year-old shoved staples down the crevices of my keybaord rendering the comma key useless even after I removed the two staples he’d managed to lodge under that particular key. So no commas will appear in this post. Please turn off your internal editor. Pretty please.)
The Thorn is author Daron D. Fraley’s debut novel. [...]
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I am the mother of five learning to live in the country surrounded by in-laws. I've been married to the amazing Nate Palmer for 15 years; he is teaching me how to be a farm girl in between chasing children, cooking dinner, and doing laundry. In my spare time (okay--time I try really hard to set aside), I like to write.
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." ~Pamela Vaull Starr°Click my About page for this year's goals.
