Another Bottle Down.

Fran and I camped on Antelope Island. I tell you what, that place is one big ball of desert and salt. I loved it.

It was here we discovered that buffalo are actually called bison. Imagine that, Yellowstone was wrong all these years.

You really do float on the Great Salt Lake. It is hilarious. You feel like an astronaut.

The sunsets are incredible.

Danish people, we learned, are very friendly. A whole carload of them shared their cherries with us.

Antelope Island is home to the nicest bathroom facility for an outdoor recreation area in the state of Utah.

They do a nice mixture of real bison with statue bison. The trick is figuring out whats what.

About face.

My mind has this problem of thinking. It thinks all the time, even when I don't tell it to. Sometimes it thinks happy thoughts, sometimes sad. Sometimes it thinks about people I try to avoid or moments I try to forget. It creates stories that haven't happened yet but convinces me that someday they will. Daydreams, thats what they're called.

And right now my mind is going so fast I can barely keep up.

But at least today it has occupied me with excitement for autumn, that beautiful season with scarves and sweaters and hot chocolate from Sags and picnics in sunny, crisp weather... new classes and new starts and new people. I love fall. Especially because fall leads to winter which leads to snow which is magical beyond all measures.

Think #2

If I could un-invent something, I feel like I'd un-invent the cell phone. Imagine, people actually talking face to face!?

Think #1

Reasons why I want (more than anything) to be a mountainwoman:

1. Spring water tastes so much better than water choked up by the city

2. At night the stars just multiply and multiply until there are so many you are mesmerized by the sight

3. The air is easier to breathe, it calms and frees

4. What used to matter doesn't matter

5. There are no people to judge or to stress or to be angry or fight

6. I would smell like campfire all the time

7. There is no time table, nothing to rush

8. There would be no mirrors or phones or televisions

And plus, food always tastes better when cooked over a fire.

Someday...

Thank you Confetti Antiques.

Once upon a time, in December, my family had dinner with my soon-to-be sister-in-law's family. There we had linzer cookies. And they were incredible. No, really, incredible.

Ever since then I've been wanting to make them, but to no avail because I didn't have those mini cookie cutters to do the centers. Yes, I have been quite devastated. BUT then Ands and I went to Confetti Antiques, our hometown fave, and in a big basket of tin cookie cutters I found just what I've been searching for. I give five stars to Confetti. We also found a cookie cutter shaped like the statue of liberty. The fourth of July is already the greatest, but think of watching the fireworks while eating a statue of liberty. The level of greatness would just skyrocket beyond anything you could imagine.

And so this week, I will make linzer cookies.

They call me a body artist.

I keep lists of things to remember, on my arm of course, so as to ensure I won't be forgetting what I should really be doing with my life. Today's list includes 1) read The Hunger Games, 2) go to the Wandering Wardrobe, and 3) pay a visit the Springville Art Museum.

Want to join??

The Best Thing.

My sisters are the two most beautiful people in the entire world. I've never been happier with anyone else. We laugh. And laugh. And laugh. I'm so excited to hang out with them for the rest of my life!