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So for this year's anniversary, Hubby and I celebrated it by going to a Taylor Swift Concert on May 25th. Ms. Swift has always been one of the few people that I wanted to go to a concert for. I have listened to her songs from way back in high school. I sang her songs while going through heartbreaks. Her songs were featured at our wedding. Admittedly, I do sometimes find her older songs more enjoyable, aka country, but I also find some of her newer songs too catchy I just couldn't forget. All in all, it's always been something I wanted to do and Hubby made it happen this year 💓 A friend also joined us on the drive down to the Reputation Stadium Tour in Denver. Concert began at around 7pm, if I remember it right. Hubby and friend got off work early and met up at our place at around 3:30pm. Then we drove down to Denver and had good ramen for dinner. Then parked just across the street from Elitch Gardens (a theme park) and walked alongside waves and waves of Swift fans to ...

So Lulu, our extra-toed tabby, just turned 6 this month. She's my dear furry Lulu. She decided to do a little adventure last night by - magically - escaping the fenced catio and gone AWOL for a brief moment. Hubby and I called her name out loud in the yard - which drew the attention of our dear neighbor - and searched everywhere from her favorite hide-out spots in the house to some weird places like under the sink cabinets. She eventually came out from a bush in our backyard. Granted, she was still in our yard (or maybe she had just returned from her adventure from the big world). She meowed and came out when our neighbor and hubby called her after spotting her in a corner bush in our yard. While we were still looking for her, we did quick surveys around the house/fenced gazebo and the fenced patio. The patio is semi-fenced to the point we're pretty sure she can't jump out because the fence is over 6 feet tall. We did, unfortunately, find a few small holes - between the...

I finally got the time, no, actually, real motivation to upload pictures from my phone to my PC. I also finally took the time to organize them (so get ready for more posts haha). So here's today's post. There aren't many dining options in the town we live in, though quite a collection of eateries in the city where hubby's company is in. Last month, March 2nd to be exact, we went to visit one of the newer establishments in Fort Collins - Famous Toastery. Hubby has already been there once or twice with coworkers before. It was my first time. I was in town doing my once per month pet grocery. On my way back toward the West side of the freeway, I called hubby (I really enjoy today's smartphone/sync with car technology) and asked him out on a spontaneous lunch date. What can I say? Sometimes I'm spontaneous like that.  From the outside of the building, I thought it was more like a quick grab-n-go sandwich type of eatery. I was wrong. This is a sit-down style res...

So my chard plants started out pretty well (germination rate was very high) but I thinned down to only 3 plants (also lost many due to damping off). Currently, I would say I only have two plants with one of them going strong and the other, well, let's say I hope the other one will catch up soon. The third Swiss chard plant suffered from an unknown cause of near-damping off signs so I try not to have too much hope for it. This third plant, I nicknamed it "little red" (for red chard) has suffered from stunted growth, stalk occasionally fell over, and I actually gave up on it by about the third week in March. Each time the stalk fell over, I added more soil because it always seemed like there wasn't enough to hold it. I think it was by the third time it fell over, I decided that was it. I dug it up and noticed one part of the stalk under soil was soft and actually was bent over. No signs of pest or disease. I'm not sure why and how this happened but I'm sure...