Retro Roadtrip: Little American Hotel Resort in Cheyenne Wyoming

What we love about Mid-Century travel is feeling you’ve been thrown back in time to a period where motor travel was cool, lounging by the pool was the most fun you could have as a kid and Motels took guests seriously and didn’t just provide you with an impersonal place to sleep. Little America in […]

Trimming PomPom Junipers

You all may remember our bushes in front of our house:Here’s what a professional does with them. Not that I did a “bad” job, but hoo-whee, I think they look terrific like this! Thanks to Big Mall Rat (Scott) for his research on my bushes. Even after I gave him a hard time for cutting […]

Our dream: the "right" 50's patio cover.

By the way, if you had told me in the “pre-kid” days that I would ever have obnoxiously colored toys in my back yard I would have slapped you (even though I’m not a violent type)…if you can see enough in the pictures, you’ll see that our slack finishing of the patio has allowed dirt […]