The next part we spent by the shore. The Maine beaches are so bright and beautiful! And the day was so warm that the water was actually warmer than in Florida as the tide was rising over the hot beach stones. It’s so beautiful! The colors, the textures! The gravely sand and pebbles and shells!…
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TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Maine
We have never been to Maine before. It’s so far up North, and a little out of the way of everything else, but we really loved it! Everyone is so friendly in the little towns there, and everywhere is so pretty. It has a certain set of colors to the landscape, and a quality of…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 4: Connecticut
[Confession – I didn’t realize I couldn’t correctly spell Connecticut until I started writing about it here- yikes!!! How did I get to my age this way?!] We did eventually end up in Connecticut, using our vintage 1973 Connecticut state map, with advertisements along the edge for businesses that had closed decades ago. We stayed…
TRAVEL JOURNAL 2: Virginia
We had already been here on our last camping venture up North a couple of years ago – this time at least we had invested in a new camp stove, and we didn’t have to worry about a propane explosion like last time! It gives me confidence to know some life problems CAN be solved!…
Travel Journal 1: North Carolina
The girls and I have forsaken Florida at the moment, and the triple-digit summer, and life problems, etc, for perhaps one of our last travel adventures all together! As great as this sounds, things can still get a little contentious several hours into an 8-hour car ride, believe it or not. Our first stop was…
It Begins With A Seed…
I keep reminding myself…. It all starts with a tiny seed. The hopes and dreams of the future begin so small and insignificant, and you can never be sure if they have the spark of life until you plant them and they begin to grow. If carefully tended to, they will take on a will…
Forever
So many changes have happened in my life over the past year. Ethan and I are getting a divorce, and I am facing the prospect of leaving behind this land that I have loved – finding new homes for all my animals, saying goodbye to my garden, finding a new place to live and wondering…
Winter and Spring Garden 2022 (Goodbye Garden)
I have also very much enjoyed the fall/winter/spring garden up until the point that it stopped being really really hot (well into January) and started being really, really cold. Here’s that story… This garden began, as usual, with pigs. They did a great job rooting it up for me. I built it in sections, since…
Just Kidding
The new year started off with a bang this past week. The peach trees decided it was spring, and burst into bloom. The chickens and ducks are leaving eggs lying around everywhere. One of the black hens keeps trying to come inside and lay an egg in the kitchen. And last week we had FIVE…
New Year Sweet Potato Tamales
It has been a very warm and summery winter. I have cosmos blooming in my garden, and ripe cherry tomatoes at Christmas! This is the warmest winter I have experienced as a gardener, and I worry about next year’s pests, with no hard freeze so far. However, I am still enjoying, for the moment, wearing…
Travel Journal : Washington State
I apologize for the silence – I’ve been up to so much lately! In November, Rose and I flew across the country to visit some very dear friends for a week. It was one of those vacations where you don’t sight see much, but you just have tons of fun (and catch up on rest)….
A Small Silence
Thank goodness that fall is here. This summer was such a long, hot, moldy, unhappy struggle. I feel like I lost so many things, and floundered around and failed. There was never enough time or energy to do what I wanted and needed to do, never enough to go around, things breaking, and heaps of…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 