Real Quick...

Lucky for me I was in Salt Lake this weekend. We jam packed the day: Farmers' Market, Millcreek Canyon, walk with Brights, lunch with Grandma Audrey, Arts Festival con Mo. I love Salt Lake City! cute cute family Kim Zack and Vanny!

Last week with a closed gate up Millcreek

Lily Shop Catering

Hey, i can cook. Do you know anything about starting business?  combine us=catering business. I am for real about this idea. I figure we will start small, maybe stay small. Make money while doing some of my favorite things: growing food, cooking food, planning party stuff, making food look pretty, and getting paid to feed people real food. I already have quite a few holy moly recipes ready. If anyone is looking to help a girl out on her first run, I would for real love to cater any event you might have approaching this summer or fall. We talk and decide any detail things. It is an awesome alternative to an actual catering business...just because it is. 

hollyjohackett@gmail.com

Day 117

Broken little girl.

That's me.
Trying so hard.
Wanting so badly.
Learning to walk with my
Great Grand Dad's help.
This was his cane.
I never met him.
Now he helps me everyday.
Thanks Harry

Day 98

Boyfriend pushes Brights and me to a large open grass field. I get stuck and he takes so many pictures that I try to escape. No chance in that happening. The pictures continue, Brights joins in. Eventually we make it home. I almost get hit by a car. But in the end, everybody wins. Fun Day.

Day 92

This is that weird time when you go back to the hospital because your bone didn't heal. Now you get to have surgery. We're talking big kid stuff. They take you in, knock you out, give you a new leg and, you're healed! Well kinda. In another month or so. I look so happy. joke.

Tunny Falk

Okay, okay, so have you ever heard of a spoonerism? It is when you flip the first letters of two words. If you want to hear one get me excited and talking fast. It seems I slip spoonerisms in here and there on accident. My best one however, was tonight when I tried to say, "she is by far the smartest one." instead I sputtered out, "she is by sar the fartest one." 

Fartest?  whoops.

Hoodrat Adventures

If I remember correctly, it was the 30th of December. What a day. That was the last time I visited L-O-G-A-N. The day was bright and sunny. I had a list of things I wanted to do when visiting logan. Of course, first was to  hang out with Hoodrat. That's Jess. Second was to take care of some personal business. By personal business I mean return a couch to its rightful owner. How would we do this? We didn't have a truck, car, or dogsled. So, we did what any stronger than you think girls would do. We started carrying that dang thing towards the two mile away destination. Our goal was to carry the couch all the way, which would include the treacherous 8th North hill. Yeah right. Every 20 yards we had to take a break. Lucky for us it was a Tuesday. Garbage day. When the garbage man saw us slowly making our way up the street, he stopped and asked if there was anything he could do. Has anyone ever talked to their garbage man before? You should they're awesome. 

When we explained our situation to him, he lowered the mighty claw. We hooked the couch on and started running alongside. He told us this would take too long and insisted we jumped up front with him. He opened the door and we climbed up and snuggled in. There we were. Moving a couch, hitchhiking, and having quite a wonderful conversation with our garbage man. Yet another reason I love Logan.   

sleeprunner

I call them "puppy dreams." Every now and then Brights will have them. She usually just moves her paws a little. Anyway, Hasen showed me this video. I kept watching it over and over again, laughing harder and harder. Hope you like it as much as I did.

for real

I tripped on my crutches and broke my toe. 

Boy

Valentine, My.

Anyone?

For Sale

  I got a new green cast! Cool. I am also trying to sell this coat. I put it on Craig's list, but i thought maybe more girls, and boys buying for girls would see it here. 

  It is a Patagonia Rubicon Rider women's size small. It is actually a really sweet coat. I ordered it through a friend and when it came, it was a little too big. I can't return it because we got a deal on it. Which is why I am willing to sell it to you for a deal. It retails from Patagonia at $250.00. I realize no one really ever pays full price for outdoor gear around here. That is why it will only cost whomever decides to buy it $150.00, and to be honest, I am not way firm on that price. That is $100 off, so basically you would be getting a pro-form deal. 

not for sale

Thank All Involved

All i can say is, thank anything possible for...

Mom. she feeds me, drives me, runs my errands, takes me to museums, talks with me...basically does everything all at once.

Dads that make it possible for my mom to stay home.

Boyfriend that found me a wheelchair, takes me on walks, reads me books, plays me music, tucks me in.

Friends that come visit, send treats, play games, rock out.

Brothers and Sisters that brighten my day.

I'm one lucky little girl.

Breaking your leg is easier than breaking your heart. Just kidding...joke.

Breaking your leg is mostly lying in bed for a LOT of days and making plans for when you can walk again.

My mom is driving me to St. George, land of the no stair house and my sisters' families. plus less people ski there, so i wont hear the words, "man that was an awesome powder day."

Hope everyone has a fun weekend!

Shed the nar. or ski in the fun sun.

I'll just be hauling around this thing. party.

Think RECOVERY

Apparently this is what sledding at Alta looks like.

I broke my left tibia in half when a friend accidentally nailed me

cruising down Sugurloaf on an extremely slick sled.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to visit me

the last couple of days in the hospital, especially

Hasen who slept there both nights.

I am going to have this huge cast on for four weeks.

After that I get a smaller walking cast for a few more weeks.

Looks like crocheting and reading just completely

replaced skiing this season.

Happy New Year. Think healthy recovery. Thanks.

Hat sale

A little thin, a lot soft.
$20.00

Auction

This hat was up for auction at the SUWA fundraiser this past weekend. I tried to make it look really professional with that fun little "B" label and "Brights" tag. It was on the table with all the rest of the gear donations, which were donated by Backcountry.com, Gregory, Black Diamond, IME, and quite a few other companies. I didn't want it to stick out as the "homemade item of the night." The tags seemed to fool everyone. It sold for a good price to a girl whom i had never met. I was pretty excited.

Help Save Utah

Hey anyone that cares about Utah...

There is an awesome fundraiser this Friday at Momentum climbing gym. We are trying to help SUWA raise money to stop  big oil companies from bidding on our precious desert land. The land inside official National Parks, such as Arches and Canyonlands, is safe. However, the land directly outside of the parks is not protected. Which means, soon enough you might have an oil rig in the background of your climbing pictures. gross, uh?

We are talking about land we all climb, hike, raft, and camp.

I know that I have always enjoyed the pristine beauty of the Colorado river, which runs through some of the land which is in question. It would be so great if you and any of your friends would join us at Momentum this Friday (12th)  night.  Fun stuff will be there including awesome gear you can bid on. You just might score yourself an awesome deal on some sweet gear and help raise money... at the same time.

climbing 8-12

Fundraiser starts at 10:20

hope to see you there.

p.s. I still have lots of hats coming... keep checking. 

hat sale

This hat is made with double thick yarn. Fashionably warm. If you like it, you can buy it.
$20.00
hollyjohackett@gmail.com
thanks kim.

Para tu Bebe

This hat is for a baby. It will keep that little thing warm and quiet...and cute.

$10.00

hollyjohackett@hotmail.com

Hat Sale...

This is a little experiment. I am going to post a new hat every couple of days. If you like it, you can buy it. Call me or email me and let me know you want it.

$22.00

hollyjohackett@gmail.com

Here it comes...Hat Season

Hey everybody...it's November. You know what that means? It is time for hats! Small hats, big hats, boy hats, girl hats, whatever you want. Email or call me with an order and I will be happy to make it for you. My email is hollyjohackett@gmail.com

Baby hats: $15.00
Regular: $22.00
Custom: $25.00

These are the basic prices. Every now and then the price may change a little bit depending on the yarn and fabric used. I posted these pictures to give you an idea of what my hats look like. Applique, bills, bobbles, stitch design, buttons, multiple color....Thanks and enjoy...

way back when...

I just found this picture on my parent's computer and it made me laugh. this is for you Jess...and Cami, and Elliot. They think they fired me. Apparently I fired them.

want a closer look?...

breakin' 101

I'm not sure why I've never seen this until today.

Mr. Rogers really is "the groove in your hips." or, wait a second, that kid is the groove in your hips.  Either way, there is groove, and it is most likely in your hips, which Shakira has told us time and time again, cannot lie. Either way I really like breakdancing, Mr. Rogers, and Shakira. 

here it comes...

End of September

First of October

Last Week

Today!

I think this is Mt. Superior.
I love living in Utah where, just as you are done with summer and it is time to put away your bike (at least for wusses like me) you get to pull out your skis and watch for snow. Then hope to hell that you can figure out a way to get work off so you can go skiing. And, although I loved living in Logan, and skiing the Beav will always have some sort of, "Fun college life" memory associated with it, I can't wait to be back in S.L.C. by the Cottonwood canyons. way to go snow.

mind of its own

For the past six years, I have driven the same green saab. It has been on countless road trips all around the western United States....not to mention, Mexico...twice. Although I love this car, i will be the first to admit, it has had way beyond its fair share of engine, electircal, who the heck knows, problems. However, for some reason, I never want to get rid of it. Lately it has had an especially interesting issue. Every now and then, let's say one out of every ten times, it just doesn't want to start. I will try four or five times, think to myself, "here we go again" then usually call someone for a ride. I don't worry too much because I know in an hour I will go back to my car, and it will start, as if nothing ever happened. Weird, i know, but that is just how it works.

What I realized I do now a days is, everytime my car does start on the first time, I clap my hands and shout "YES!"

I didn't think anything of it until today when a friend was with me and asked, "Yes what?"

I replied, "My car started...first try!"

her: "oh is something wrong with it?"

me: "it's a saab."

i hope i drive it for the next twenty years.

Jack's son, Hole.

Well hello.....If anyone was wondering, it takes a lot of extra effort to post if you don't have the internet at your house or work.

A couple weeks ago some kids went up to run the Snake river. It was freezing but tons of fun as basically every river trip always is. It was just lucky that the Lotoja was also that very same day. I stood on the side of the road and cheered the riders on for probably an hour. Then I figured out a way to get to the finish line so I could watch Zack, Clayt, and Austin end their 206 mile ride. WAY TO GO!