Montrose

Did I Get Maple Syrup?

Make Maple Syrup

The results are in!  My family decided to tap our 100 year old red maple tree this Spring in the beginning of March in high hopes of making gallons of fresh maple syrup.  You can read by previous post HERE on SJP.  Red maples do produce sap but sugar maples are the biggest producers...
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Mack’s Family Entertainment Center

Mack's Family Entertainment Center

Yesterday we finally visited the much raved about Mack’s Family Entertainment. Right next to San Juan Cinema in Montrose, Mack’s is packed with fun options around every corner. Below, you can see the variety of activities available to kids. Obstacle courses, climbing, sliding, a slack line, a car that goes down a ramp that...
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Samples & Scratches

sam·ple  (smpl)
n. A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole.

scratch  (skraCH)
Adj. Assembled or made from whatever is available


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Spring Break in Western Colorado (and Beyond!)

Photo Credits Jump America

For those of you going somewhere exciting, I’m jealous! I have a wicked case of cabin fever. Nearly everyone we know is heading south, or west, or somewhere. This year we are hanging out at home because we started a couple of large home projects that we are determined to finish up by the...
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Kids in the Kitchen Baking Competition

Kids in the Kitchen Baking Competition

Kids in the Kitchen Baking Competition, a fundraiser for the Pope John Paul II Academy, welcomed dozens of entries from kids in our region last weekend. Kids as young as four years old spent some time in the kitchen concocting all sorts of fancy treats.  It was so much fun to walk around and...
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43 Cents

43 Cents

  While out wandering a small town, I discovered this old abandoned gas pump sitting behind a building.  Immediately drawn to the decay and the rust, I began snapping away.  It was until much later I took a closer look at the print and realized this pump wasn’t even designed for a purchase higher...
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Outdoor Winter Activities with Kids

Ice Skating on the Canal

Before I had children I used to downhill ski about 40 days a season.  After children I was lucky to get a couple days in a season.  Plus, my first child would cry and cry after 30 minutes in the cold.  I am the outdoorsy type so it was awful feeling trapped inside.  Luckily...
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The Nutcracker

Weehawken Creative Arts The Nutcracker

Updated! You can read below about last year’s performance of The Nutcracker, produced by Weehawken Creative Arts. Tickets are now on sale for this weekend. ———————————————- 120 dancers ages two and up from Ridgway, Ouray, Montrose, Placerville, Telluride and Norwood performed this weekend in Weehawken Creative Arts’s magical performance of The Nutcracker at the...
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Inspirational Quote

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

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