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Welcome to Springs and Things, the podcast where two close friends spill the tea on all things Colorado Springs! From culture and community to hidden gems and neighborhood lore, we’ve got it covered. Join us as we sip our coffee (or maybe something stronger) and dive into the stories and secrets that make this city so unique. Whether you're a local or just passing through, our fun, light-hearted, and always entertaining take on the quirks, hot topics, and insider tips will keep you coming back for more. Discover what’s really happening in the Springs—beyond the mountains and parks!
Grab your matcha
Lauren Ferrara:or cappuccino and settle onto the couch with us because this week we're recording from Treehouse Cafe, a cozy little community spot on Academy that we are obsessed with. You guys, September's calendar is packed, so we're sharing our favorite must dos for the month ahead. We've got film festivals, eighteen eighties vintage baseball, three separate reasons to love Ivy Wild, a festival for dogs, flower fields, and the season's first pumpkins, and those just scratch the surface. Seriously, we talk about so much. So let's get into September.
Lauren Ferrara:But before we do, we wanted to let you know that this episode is brought to you by Vanguard Aesthetics. If this summer took a toll on your skin, take this as a sign to reach out to them today. Hey, everyone. I'm Carly. And I'm Lauren.
Lauren Ferrara:We're two Colorado Springs locals who love uncovering everything that makes the city special.
Carly Ries:If you're the kind of person who wants to know where to go, what's happening, and the stories behind it all, then you're in the right place. Welcome to Springs of Things, your insider's path to hidden gems, local flavor, and unexpected moments that make The Springs one
Lauren Ferrara:of its kind. From secret spots and campus events
Carly Ries:to arts, eats, and those you've gotta hear about at Local Stories.
Lauren Ferrara:We've got you covered.
Carly Ries:So grab your coffee, settle in, and get ready to fall a little more in love with Colorado Springs.
Lauren Ferrara:Let's dive in to Springs and Things. Okay. So when I edit these shows, I and with the software, I make it so that it's, like, studio quality, and I, do these things. Mhmm.
Carly Ries:And I really fancy.
Lauren Ferrara:So fancy. It's a bougie in my, on my couch when I
Carly Ries:have it. I'm a studio.
Lauren Ferrara:But I hope that the background noise here doesn't get edited out or that I figure out a way to not edit it out because sometimes they go extreme with it because Jack Johnson's playing, and I love Jack Johnson. It goes back, like, my high school years, I feel like.
Carly Ries:Well, you were the same, and he's coming to Colorado. He's coming
Lauren Ferrara:to Fiddler's Green, but so far. I know. I said I was like, it's too far. Maybe I should do that Ford Ford take note. Bring him back in.
Lauren Ferrara:Bring him here. But thinking of here, where are we?
Carly Ries:Oh my gosh. I've been wanting to come here forever. Forever. So I went to some kind of, like, Woo Woo Craft Fair about a year ago, and they had there was business cards for this place. We're at Treehouse Cafe over on Academy, and it's totally off, like, my beaten path.
Carly Ries:And I drove around this strip mall. And, a, there's so many kind of cool little businesses that I never would have seen. One of them is called Bazinga, and Bazinga has, like, collectibles. Like, I I have an 11 year old. My child would love wandering around.
Carly Ries:There's also this art studio called Brush Crazy that has art classes and all kinds of cool stuff. And then there's a, like, resale clothing place called Uptown Cheapskate. But, yeah, delightful little place. Now we're in Treehouse Cafe, sitting on the couch here. You're enjoying your matcha.
Carly Ries:I'm having my cappuccino. And what is so cool about this place, I walked in, and there was, like, mom young moms with babies. There's a group of, like, older ladies together. You know? I don't know.
Carly Ries:It looks like a book club or something. And then there's sewing clubs here, and it just feels like such a community space. Look. Bob Ross is on the TV screen right now.
Lauren Ferrara:Like, I'm delighted. So can I say something controversial?
Carly Ries:Uh-oh. You don't like Bob Ross?
Lauren Ferrara:He's so
Carly Ries:so boring. I've never actually like, I he had quite the comeback in it. He I remember him, like, on the TV. Nobody in my house really, like, watched Bob Ross and painted or anything, but I remember seeing him on the TV when I was a kid and then did not see him for many, many, many years. And then now all of a sudden, like, people dressed like one of my friends dressed up in spas in Bob Ross for Halloween.
Carly Ries:And when I was working at Mountain Song, the Waldorf School, I was in, like, a seventh or eighth grade class, and, like, the kids were watching Bob Ross and painting along one day. And yeah.
Lauren Ferrara:I mean, could they're obviously Bob Ross lovers.
Carly Ries:Apparently, like, his work is worth a lot of money now. Yeah. I mean, he's talented. I'm not
Lauren Ferrara:gonna take away from, like, his skill or anything or what he does. But, man, like, I'd like to get
Carly Ries:never heard it on like, it's muted right now because Yeah.
Lauren Ferrara:That and, like, soap opera. So no. Thank you. Okay. I don't do soaking.
Carly Ries:Either. No. I did for a while. There was one I got into when I first started working after college. What were they?
Carly Ries:Oh, what were the soap operas back then?
Lauren Ferrara:Like, General Hospital. It wasn't that. I don't even know,
Carly Ries:but I, like, definitely got sucked into it. I was like, I I I haven't watched it since. I think the bachelorette and bachelor became, like, my version of the soap opera, and then I cut myself off that stuff.
Lauren Ferrara:Well, it's so funny you say that because I am, what, twenty two, twenty three years strong with Grey's Anatomy.
Carly Ries:Oh my
Lauren Ferrara:god. I've never missed a season.
Carly Ries:Oh my god. I watched the first probably, like, five or six years.
Lauren Ferrara:I've now seen it for more than half my life, and it's not great anymore. But I'm like, I've come this far. I gotta keep going.
Carly Ries:Well, that that that's what happened with me with bachelor. I started watching it when it started when I was in high school, and then, you know, decades later, then they started adding, like, bonus episodes. And I'm like, dude, I can't. No. No.
Carly Ries:And back when I started watching it, it was like, oh, this guy's an NFL player and a doctor and a, like, total catch. And now they're just, like, famous for being on the bachelor Yeah. And bringing on, like, no thanks. Pure
Lauren Ferrara:days. Bachelor in Pure days?
Carly Ries:Yeah. See, and that was another thing. I did watch that. And, no, I a couple years ago, my my husband was like I was watching it, and he comes up and whispers, Lauren, you have daughters. Like, it was so judgy.
Carly Ries:And then when they kept adding these things, I'm like, I can't I don't have time to watch, like, six hours of The Bachelor in a week. Like, there's too much. And then, yeah, one season, I stopped watching it. And then once you stop, it's like it's a clean break. I haven't watched done.
Lauren Ferrara:I'm done. Well, and it's funny. I was I used to be obsessed with it. You know how my childhood bedroom is a snapshot in time? Like, it has not changed since I moved out of my parents' house when I
Carly Ries:was 18. I haven't been in your childhood bedroom.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh my god.
Carly Ries:It was recorded to six days.
Lauren Ferrara:It was the same.
Carly Ries:To be there.
Lauren Ferrara:And it includes a signed picture of Andrew Firestone.
Carly Ries:Oh my god. What was he like? So he was I don't know.
Lauren Ferrara:My dad, I think, got got it for me.
Carly Ries:He met him at
Lauren Ferrara:some things somewhere and was like, my daughter, like, no shame. I I think my mom is also a fan. I don't know. Anyway, we digress.
Carly Ries:I I remember that season. That was a bachelorette I was a fan of.
Lauren Ferrara:It was good. But, anyway, we're at Treehouse. And it's funny because when I first walked in, you're like, Carly, just go to the calendar, and there's a community calendar on the wall of all these events they have here. Yeah. And it just made a Sisterhood Circle, I don't
Carly Ries:know what that means, but I was I want to be there.
Lauren Ferrara:Yeah. Toddler time. Like, crap, it's just really cool, but it was like, wow. What a great way to kick off our September picks. Yeah.
Lauren Ferrara:And it's funny because there are some months where I'm like, wow. Like, why does it seem like there's always something going on, but some months, it's like there are there isn't a ton, like, big things. September is not one of those months.
Carly Ries:No. And I September is my birthday month, and I feel like there's lots of, like, there are so many things that I we always try to pick things that we actually are super psyched about and want to go to. It doesn't always work out with calendars and life and all that stuff, but these things, I'm like, oh my gosh. I am so pumped about everything, all my picks.
Lauren Ferrara:Well, here, you kick it
Carly Ries:off then. Okay. I'll go first. So Jasmine Dilabeau is a local artist in town. She's the co owner of Ephemera Restaurant.
Carly Ries:I have taken one of her classes at the Bemis School. She is just, like, creative and talented and cool. And on September 5, she has a poetry pop up at Novus Mortem Collective on Tejon. Have you been to that place? So it's all this, like, curiosities, taxidermy.
Carly Ries:I ended up there because my daughter wanted,
Lauren Ferrara:like,
Carly Ries:like, a taxidermied duckling or something strange, and somebody was like, you should go there, and I ended up not getting her that because I didn't want a dead duckling in our house. But they have a tarant like, tarantulas, all kinds of interesting this, Lauren. Yeah. It's not your kind of place. But, anyway, all through down they're doing September sidewalk sales, and she'll be there.
Carly Ries:She's an artist and a poet, and she'll have, like, poetry designs, handmade books, small artwork, and I can't wait to check it out. So that's September 5 downtown.
Lauren Ferrara:So I'm just gonna say all these back to back because they're all Ivy Wild. This episode is not sponsored by Ivy Wild, but it should be. Dropping that in. So what there are a few things coming our way. One, have you been to Bristol's movie Under the Stars in the past?
Carly Ries:Oh my gosh. That is so fun. Yeah. I made a point to be at lot of them, like, think last summer or the summer before.
Lauren Ferrara:You guys had so fun there. Lineup is posted, and it's just another season. It's free outdoor movies in the schoolyard every Saturday evening in September and October. And so you can bring your chair. Can bring your pupper.
Carly Ries:I brought my nugget. You know that, like, kid's couch that's also, like, a fort, I guess, where you can, like, rebuild it. So we brought the nugget when we went in sleeping bags, and it's so fun.
Lauren Ferrara:Yes. And you can there's popcorn. Obviously, there's beer. And, yeah, it's just a great way to enjoy community, enjoy movies, and kinda get into that fall feeling of watching a movie under the stars. Okay.
Lauren Ferrara:So then another thing happening at Bristol is their their Oktoberfest. Are you an Oktoberfest person?
Carly Ries:I mean, I'm not a big crowd person. That's my problem. So I have like, when I first moved to Colorado, I felt like there was Oktoberfest in hell, because they're all over the place. I personally and I'm not much of a beer drinker other than, like, you know, the pumpkin beer at Bristol, But I think, like, lederhosen are cute. But, no, lederhosen is for men.
Carly Ries:It's a dirndl. Dirndl is the women one. Don't like that. I don't the word. Sound weird.
Carly Ries:It does sound weird. Yeah. I feel like I'd be more into it if I had the outfit. I'll get a dirndl.
Lauren Ferrara:It is on September 25. It's 21 plus, but on September 26, it's family friendly. And the twenty one plus night has, like, Bavarian dancers, drinking games and contests, a lively polka DJ, all that good stuff. And then on Saturday, you can bring in the kiddos, and there's family fun. They have great German food.
Lauren Ferrara:They have contests and prizes at Dance theitudes of Live polka band. Just a great, great, great activity for the whole fam. General admission is free, but then and then, obviously, food and beverage are available for purchase. And then they also have VIP tickets for $85. So that is another thing happening at Ivy Wild.
Lauren Ferrara:And then the last thing happening at Ivy Wild, I love film festivals of all sorts. Like, the the Rocky Mountain women's one is one that's on our calendar all year, but the other one that that's been on my radar is the tenth annual Colorado Short Circuit Film Festival that's at Ivy Wild, September eleventh through the thirteenth. And it's presented by the Independent Film Society of Colorado, And it's a three day celebration that showcases creativity, diversity, and talent of filmmakers across Colorado. And so audiences can enjoy, like, an unforgettable weekend of independent films. You there's filmmaker conversations.
Lauren Ferrara:There's networking opportunities. Community celebrations, it's just another way another really cool film festival. So if you're a film festival kind of person like us, you do that. And then in October, go to Rocky Mount Women's Film. There's a bunch of different passes ranging in different prices, but we include their we'll include their link in our show notes, but just a really fun way to spend a weekend and watch some cool films.
Carly Ries:Well, speaking of film festivals, this is not on my list, but I'm gonna talk about it anyway. It the Breckenridge Film Festival is in September. And, I mean, one of the films I watched last year, I was, like, just bawling. I mean, like, ugly cry. It was so powerful.
Carly Ries:Their films seem to be more, like, fictional, and there's a lot of documentaries at Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival. It's kind of, like, tends to be a little documentary heavy, which I love. But, yeah, it's funny. Going to the Breckenridge Film Festival always gets me excited for the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival. And and there's also this cool program called girls in STEM at Keystone Science School that's, like, during the film weekend.
Carly Ries:So, like so fourth through eighth grade girls can go they put together over the weekend a little film, and then they have their red carpet moment at the Breckenridge Bell Festival. It's so cool.
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Lauren Ferrara:So be sure to visit their website. That link is in our show notes as well. Oh my god. Okay. What is I just said three in a row.
Lauren Ferrara:What's next?
Carly Ries:Okay. So next for me is Cave of the Winds has so many cool things, and I still haven't been there. You know, that was, like, my summer goal, one of many summer goals that I didn't achieve. And let's go for your birthday. Well, this is happening the day before my birthday.
Carly Ries:Well, it's September 11. It's a new moon cave of the winds sound bath, and we've been talking about sound bath, and it feels so good, and it's so woo woo, and it's so me. And so it's at Cave Of The Winds on the eleventh from 07:30 to nine. You step into the chambers of Cave Of The Winds and experience this, you know, the raw power of nature with these vibrations of sound. So that is happening on the eleventh.
Carly Ries:And then also just two days later, TEDx Manitou Springs is having an event there, and I have been to TEDx Manitou Springs. They do an excellent job at all their events, but they're actually gonna have, on the thirteenth, local performers, two TEDx speakers, cave access, and a sound bath. Amazing. Right? So and so this is, like, invite only.
Carly Ries:I have gotten an invite. Tickets, they do have like, you don't have to if you don't have something in your email that says you're invited, they do have some tickets available to the public, and hopefully, they're still available, but there are not many of them. Hopefully, they're still available by the time you hear this podcast.
Lauren Ferrara:Did I tell you I did my first sunbath a couple weeks ago? It was at Carol's house. You met Carol Yeah.
Carly Ries:Years ago.
Lauren Ferrara:She has this lovely home, and, yeah, she hosted it there. And so I I never done one. Mhmm. Chills.
Carly Ries:Chills. Yay. Okay. I love it. So sticking with it, I'm gonna take another one even though it's not my turn.
Carly Ries:Is that okay, Carly? Do I have your permission? Sept well, this is on my like, birthday all these things are very, very me. So September 12, Unity Metaphysical and Craft Festival is at the Unity Spiritual Center of the Rockies, bringing together psychic readings, crystals, Reiki. I could have done Reiki.
Carly Ries:I've heard amazing things. Tarot, spiritual healing, all kinds of cool things. It's like a woo woo palooza.
Lauren Ferrara:Woo woo palooza. You're you're another one of my woo boos. I told you I had a dream about one of our friends, and I was like, you're my woo boo in the dream. And then I woke up, and I was like, you're my woo boo. Okay.
Lauren Ferrara:So we're this you're gonna have a good piggyback off of the one I'm gonna say because I'm looking at your computer right now. A friend of mine texted us. We're on a family tour between he and his wife and my husband and I. And sending us a video, he took his son to the Field of Dreams baseball game, like, a month three weeks ago, a month ago. Fun.
Lauren Ferrara:And they walked out of the cornfield, and I just, like, love I'm not I mean, you know, I'm a huge Savannah banana person. I'm wearing that hat right now. I'm not like a Savannah bananas? I have no idea what you're talking about.
Carly Ries:Ban are we talking about baseball or bananas?
Lauren Ferrara:Lauren. Oh my gosh. Okay. I was looking at pictures. Okay.
Lauren Ferrara:I feel like I when you went
Carly Ries:to a sound bath without me.
Lauren Ferrara:No. This is even worse. You've been living under a rock. Okay. So after this episode, I'm showing you showing you so many YouTube videos of the Savannah bananas.
Lauren Ferrara:Okay. So, anyway, what I was gonna say is I'm not, like, a big baseball person. I'm obsessed with the Savannah bananas, which I will show you, and you're gonna fall in love with them. And you're gonna be like, oh my gosh. Where have I been the past two years?
Lauren Ferrara:But I love, like, whole like, old school field of dreams type of baseball, and the annual Labor Day vintage baseball match at Rockledge Ranch is happening. And it takes place on Monday, September 7, and it features, like, eighteen eighties style baseball with a home team, the Camp Creek Cloudbusters, and it's just, like, old school, like, exactly how you would feel. Have you been before?
Carly Ries:No. Okay. So they've been doing it for years, and I've never actually been in person. But when I was working in news, we always sent a reporter, and it was always, like, a fun story that happened on Labor Day. So yeah.
Carly Ries:And then that that and the lift off, there's such
Lauren Ferrara:Okay. I can't I can't move on Okay. Until I tell you what's the main the name is Art. Tell me everything. It's like Harlem Globetrotters, but with baseball.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh. And they do like, Kristen like, they were just in Denver, and Kristen Bell performed. Oh, that's do they do all these, like, performances. They sing. They dance.
Lauren Ferrara:They do tricks. They it's like an engaging it's like, ugh, I have so many YouTube videos, but I my friends are my next door neighbors went, and I wasn't invited because they were as a family. But they brought me back a hat because they know how exciting I am. And I literally it has not left my head.
Carly Ries:I don't think so. I I think I've told you this before, but did you know Kristen Bell's dad was the news director at the TV station? Yes. And it was actually at my old TV station in Las Vegas, not while I was there, but
Lauren Ferrara:See, you told me that last week, and I felt like I was talking to you about the Savannah bananas, and that's why you brought it up.
Carly Ries:I feel
Lauren Ferrara:like I would have remembered that. Okay.
Carly Ries:Especially your enthusiasm for the Savannah bananas.
Lauren Ferrara:It's so many, so much. Okay. Okay. But that was Rockledge Ranch, and I'm reading Rockledge Ranch on yours.
Carly Ries:What's Okay. Going on So this sounds super cool and interesting. It's the Garden of the Gods powwow. This is the September 19 from ten to five, and you can go to the ranch and celebrate the rich Native American heritage of the Pike Peak region. So it's honoring Native American cultures and history through song, dance, and traditions.
Carly Ries:It is a dog free event. I felt like I should mention that. I knew your face was gonna do that, but it makes sense. I'm like, dogs seem like they could cause problems. And yeah.
Carly Ries:So that sounds really fascinating and cool to me.
Lauren Ferrara:Well, know where dogs are welcome is Plotoberfest. Have you been?
Carly Ries:Yeah. I have been. Yeah.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh my gosh. So it is happening at Union Printers Home at Printers Hill. It's clearly a dog friendly festival featuring craft brews and spirits tastings, pet contests, activities for the whole family. So much food, food trucks, all that jazz. And it's one of the Humane Society's annual signature fundraising events where all the proceeds benefit the homeless and abused animal at the Humane Society.
Lauren Ferrara:So it's just so great. It is happening on September 12 from eleven to four. Tickets range from like, kids five and under are free, and then there's a nondrinker pass. There's VIP. Go to link in our show notes.
Lauren Ferrara:It'll give you all the pricing, but it's a great day with the peppers.
Carly Ries:Oh, I just got distracted a little bit because a cute baby is here, and that's that's another thing about Treehouse. There's been so many babies, and I love that they that moms feel welcome with me. Okay. I think on our very first episode and and and many subsequent episodes, we talked about forest bathing, which has been I was introduced a couple of years ago by a friend, and I then my forest bathing there was a monthly forest bathing event at one of the nature centers, and it stopped, and I was devastated. And it used to I used to, like, you know, write the highlights and lowlights of every month, and the highlight was always horse bathing.
Carly Ries:It's back. And it actually came back several months ago, and I don't know how I didn't know this. I don't know how nobody told me.
Lauren Ferrara:Because you've been living under the
Carly Ries:Under the rock without Savannah banana. Right? Well, regardless. And not only okay. No.
Carly Ries:No. This is important. Not only is forest bathing itself back, but my forest bathing guide from yesteryear, Serena Vogel, is back. So and it's free, and this is at Starsmore Discovery Center. They're hosting this forest bathing experience from nine to eleven.
Carly Ries:It is September 26, and it goes on every month through October. So I am going to book all of them.
Lauren Ferrara:Every month through October? Or no. I'm sorry. December. December.
Carly Ries:That was not it. But thank you for catching that. So I'm hoping this is, like, going to continue for the rest of my life. It's amazing, and you feel so fantastic, so it does feel like my it feels like my birthday month.
Lauren Ferrara:Am I gonna steal Greenbox Farm and Art Market from you?
Carly Ries:Go for it. I will be very, supportive.
Lauren Ferrara:Okay. Well, I figured this would be on your list, but, I wanted to do it because the Greenbox Farm and Art Market is September 26, and it is a fast growing community favorite that's a one day market that brings together top regional curators of farm fresh provisions and local art. Have you
Carly Ries:been before? No. But a friend of mine just posted about it on Instagram, and I think she's somehow involved. But I have to you know, those turtlenecks that I wear? Like, I have, like, 30 of them, the exact same in different colors.
Carly Ries:So she and I became friendly because I was at a playground, and far away was this woman in this gorgeous fleece turtleneck. And I literally chased her to her car, like because she was so far away. She's about to get in her car, and I needed to know who made the turtleneck. So I chased
Lauren Ferrara:this poor lady to her car, and now we're friends. I love it. How was that at the farm in art? How did I even relate to? Yes.
Lauren Ferrara:Sorry. I squirreled.
Carly Ries:I didn't realize what a big deal she was at the Green Box Farm in Art Market, but I'm talking about Karen Ellis. So maybe if it's chilly, she will be wearing this turtleneck, but she curated the whole event.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh my gosh. That's so cool.
Carly Ries:I did not connect those dots till this moment.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh, that may I'm glad you connected the dots because I wasn't connecting the dots between that story.
Carly Ries:Don't forget. Well, they it does connect. So if you see, Karen, wear your beautiful fleece turtleneck, Dudley Steven.
Lauren Ferrara:Yeah. So get some inspo there, and also check out produce, baked goods, and specialty food items. Again, curated by Karen.
Carly Ries:Oh, we got Karen.
Lauren Ferrara:But there are other be other vendors. Honestly, anything Green Box does, we are supporters of. So that's my my other pick. Okay.
Carly Ries:You go. Any well, I that is it for me. I think that's a wait. Do you have more? Oh, I have two more.
Carly Ries:Oh, goodness. Okay. Well, I yeah. Okay.
Lauren Ferrara:Well, you're gonna be totally on board with these other two. So Gather Mountain Blooms. Yeah. We love Gather Mountain Blooms so They're having their harvest hootenanny. Honestly, I kinda chose this because I like seeing the word hootenanny.
Carly Ries:I do. I like you said that word, and I was like, I see what's happening.
Lauren Ferrara:Yep. That's what is I see what's happening. Oh, I've watched Moana recently. Anyway, that is on September 26. It's from eight to twelve.
Lauren Ferrara:It's just $5 for general admission. Kids three and under are free, and it's just a relaxed end of summer gathering in the you pick flower fields. It's kinda like just a goodbye to summer and a warm welcome to fall. There's a meat coffee and refreshing drinks, live music, a thoughtfully curated artisan market, breakfast and snacks. The first pumpkins of the season will be there.
Lauren Ferrara:Oh, yay. Isn't that so cute?
Carly Ries:That sounds fantastic. What a day to, like, tie a bow on summer.
Lauren Ferrara:I know. Okay. And then my other thing is Brita Holmes is also coming in September. You guys, if you're an HGTV fan, if even if you're not, if you look at Zillow at 11PM at night while you're going to bed, like the rest of us, that is happening September 11 through the twelfth. It just You can go
Carly Ries:with my husband. He is always looking at houses, and sometimes it's funny. He'll send me, like, an $8,000,000 house in Montana or something, and I'm like, we don't have $8,000,000, Joe. Like, cool. Like But we don't have go live in Montana.
Lauren Ferrara:Like, do you think
Carly Ries:he just sends me houses he thinks are cool?
Lauren Ferrara:I just think there's just something so cool about Parade Homes. But, it's happening September 11 through the twenty seventh, and it's from ten to six. It is not open on
Carly Ries:Mondays and Tuesdays. But just like, there's cool houses. They do, and they also have some cool designers that are featured in the houses. And, yeah, it's super fun to see. So that was
Lauren Ferrara:my pick. But do you have a pick of the week? I guess this whole episode is like a pick of the week, but
Carly Ries:I did have have a pick of the the month. So, I mean, I think Treehouse, where we are right now, I think check it out and come forest bathing with me.
Lauren Ferrara:Okay. So there is something that I've been wanting to talk about for a while, and I I kinda have a list of picks of the week that I'm just, like, wanna remember that I and this one has been on my radar kinda this summer, but it's actually perfect timing because it's starting up again. Classical music hasn't always been my thing. Like, I'm not one that will go to a symphony, but I don't like that about my personality. And I think there's a part of me that, like, hasn't I I wanna Yeah.
Carly Ries:Yeah. I'm kidding. I that was a joke. I think your personality has fully developed.
Lauren Ferrara:It doesn't develop, but I do wanna appreciate classical music more. And I was like, how can I do that? And so there's just this chamber music series called epic, and it's at the end center. And it's not like you're stuffy, sit in the back kinda concert. You're right up close to musicians.
Lauren Ferrara:They almost sold out their whole season last year. And it's intimate. It's interactive. And every concert ends with a ten minute q and a where you actually talk to the performers. So somebody like me who's like
Carly Ries:You can ask so many questions. I have so many questions. What question would you ask?
Lauren Ferrara:What happens, like, if you have to cough?
Carly Ries:Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had to
Lauren Ferrara:clear my throat sometime. I'm just I don't know. Yeah. Okay. Little things like that.
Lauren Ferrara:I bet there's
Carly Ries:more intelligent questions that I could ask them. I wanna come and just watch you ask your question.
Lauren Ferrara:Yeah. But I just I I don't know. I just think it sounds like for a newbie like me, somebody that's trying to appreciate that, like, classical music more, This sounds good. The lineup is genuinely, like, stacked. There's only six concerts, and it's starting September 18.
Lauren Ferrara:And it actually is end the the the series is gonna close with a Grammy winning saxophonist.
Carly Ries:Cool. I have a confession. Like, I I I wish I I'm with you. I don't play a single instrument. I played piano for, like, a couple weeks when I was probably in second grade or something, and then I was like, I don't wanna do this anymore, and I don't.
Carly Ries:And now I very much want my children to play instruments because it's like, I feel like it is I my personality is not fully developed either because of this fatal flaw.
Lauren Ferrara:So it's funny because when you, like you know, we all raise our kids differently, but one thing with like, one thing that was big for me is I was like, I don't care what they play, but I want my kids to play a team sport. Oh, yeah. Like, it like, I just want them to have the experience of a team sport. And my husband is very adamant about and and I as I am now as well, playing an instrument. Yeah.
Lauren Ferrara:Like, again, we don't care what instrument. You do you.
Carly Ries:I mean, I you know, there's only so many days, but I'm trying to do Yeah. So right now, we're doing something athletic, something artsy. But I think I do wanna do a single, you know, athletic, like fencing, individual sport, team sport, and something artsy.
Lauren Ferrara:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that covers the bases. But, anyway, if you are like me, if new subscribers can save a $132 if you sign up before Labor Day.
Lauren Ferrara:So just check it out. Again, the link will be in our show notes, but I just I was like, this might be a good baby step into this realm.
Carly Ries:This was such a fun episode.
Lauren Ferrara:This is such a fun episode. I wish you guys could see us. We're literally, like, snuggled up on a couch in Treehouse. I can't wait. We so we are now trying to make it a point to record.
Lauren Ferrara:I mean, we always when we have interviews, we always go to the interviewee wherever they're Yeah.
Carly Ries:We offices or turf.
Lauren Ferrara:Yeah. We go to them, and we're like, we should be doing that when it's just us too. So now we're going around town and recording at various locations because our equipment allows us to do that. It's so fun.
Carly Ries:Anyway And maybe by next week, our personalities will have developed a little more.
Lauren Ferrara:Yes. I'm gonna start next week with, like, a cello solo. I
Carly Ries:look forward to it.
Lauren Ferrara:Well, again, well, listeners, as always, thank you so much for tuning in. Please leave that five star review. It really helps us spread the word to other locals in the springs. Subscribe to the show on Apple or Spotify, and share this episode with a friend who's trying to find things to do in September. And we'll see you next week on Springs and Things.