It feels like we’ve hit a critical mass of kids and families in South Main given that we had our first true trick-or-treating outing on Halloween. A posse of South Main families traipsed around the neighborhood, knocking on every door they could find and hitting up households that were a bit unaccustomed to trick or [...] Read more »
It’s hard to fully appreciate how cool the Pumpkin Patch festival is until you have a 2 year old. Held just west of Buena Vista at the home of Weathervane Farm, Colorado Grown and Cottonwood Creek Dairy, Pumpkin Patch is chock full of activities that kids can’t get enough of. Hay rides to pick out [...] Read more »
I’m in a hurry to finish this post cause I have an impromptu community picnic in the park to make it to. I’ll be wheeling the barbecue, table and chairs over to enjoy some quality time with my neighbors while my kids tear around with their little friends from across the alley. I’m a lucky [...] Read more »
You may remember the Pucketts from an article I wrote about them and their home design back in September. At the time the home had just been framed and little Josie was just a bump in Cindy’s belly. We’re quite excited to announce that the Pucketts have moved into their new home on South Main [...] Read more »
On Halloween day, the South Main Town Square was the site of Eddyline Restaurant and Brewery‘s Fall Fest. Local Food, local Beer, local Music with Bruce Hayes, face painting, a haunted trail and trick-or-treat safe zone for the kids were all on tap. The non-profit event generously benefited the Boys and Girls Club [...] Read more »
Reason for Awesomeness #1: The Rally to Restore Sanity! As Jon Stewart says in the clip below, a lot of us have $%#@ to do and alas, will not be at the “million moderate march.” But I’ll sure be streaming it on Comedy Central (since I’m one of those hippies without a boob tube)! [...] Read more »
Here’s a message from Earl Richmond of Colorado Kayak Supply about another great public park amenity in our River Park. For those of you that do not know, Buena Vista and Northern Chaffee County are very close to getting our public Pump Track built. It will be located in front of the Buena Vista [...] Read more »
We love eating local food, and we love that every year we have more sources for delicious, local and organic food in Buena Vista. Aside from the root vegetables, greens, strawberries, peas, onions, tomatoes, peppers, squash and more that we harvest from our urban vegetable garden, we get our food through Weathervane Farm’s community supported [...] Read more »
Buena Vista’s first annual American Bouldering Series event took place Saturday and was a great success, with 27 competitors turning out to compete, 60% of which were kids. Families from the Vail valley to the front range and as far away as Santa Fe came to Buena Vista, many of them to enjoy the novelty [...] Read more »
We have one of the smallest and most awkwardly-shaped lots in South Main. Shaped sort of like a badly cut piece of pie, it seemed our yard was doomed to not be much- besides our wonderful vegetable garden. But I have a son now so we built a sand box. We never used the space anyways- why not? The sand box started an inquiry that has ended with, in my mind, a surprising realization of just what can be done with a small yard.
