First, we picked the lettuce, sorting out what was edible and what was not. Then we rinsed out the pool, threw the hose in, added a pool-happy toddler for optimum soaking, and stripped the lettuce leaves into the water.

The pool worked really well for rinsing off the big chunks of garden dirt and bugs. Then we spread it all out on a king size sheet, rolled it up to dry it, and bagged it for the food bank. Eighteen 1-gallon bags of mixed salad greens.

The Manitou Cliff Dwellings were moved to Manitou Springs from somewhere in Southwestern Colorado and reconstructed under a rock overhang outside of town. Seriously.