I’m in a deep-thinking mode this week. Nothing I really want to write about yet, so instead I’ll leave you with some images from our recent Cali trip that I love.

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From the Chicago Tribune:

Holy chlorination, Batman!

Hinsdale home’s swimming pool a hot topic online

October 18, 2010|By Steve Schmadeke, Tribune Read More

I despise buying jeans.

Going into a jean store is stressful…there are way too many styles- boy cut, relaxed, faded, torn, embellished, skinny, jeggings….and within those options, 20 different colors!

Typically I end up trying on 15-20 pairs, asking the sales girl a million questions “Will they stretch? Will they shrink? Will the color fade?” before deciding on one overpriced pair that I’m not all that satisfied Read More

A couple weeks ago Luke went on an all-boys trip to Colorado to climb Challenger and Kit Carson peaks. When he got home, he was like a kid on Christmas telling me about everything they did.

They camped outside under the starts, hung food up in trees to keep it from attracting bears, drank lake water, carried 50 pound packs on their backs for miles at a time, ate wild raspberries and even dug toilet “holes.”

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