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Full Story »To The Lake
Packing List: One country ham Corn Meal (Forgot…. throw into car!) Packs of Starbucks Salted Carmel Hot Chocolate Pears Cans of Pineapple and Cherries Ice Skates (lake is frozen!) Entire duffel bag of mittens, snowpants, gloves, scarves Extra blankets Hersey Kisses for Peanut Blossoms Source: pillsbury.com via Shauna on Pinterest Peanut Blossom Cookie Dough [...]
Full Story »So, That’s What You’ve Been Doing
I looked through my camera and found the evidence. This is what those little boys were busy doing in the house, while we were busy taking taking out the dock.
Full Story »An Old Pickle Jar
We needed a place to store the dried snail shells, driftwood that comes in cool shapes, the drawings of snakes and the drawings of the occasional pet dead fish that shows up in my freezer. (I found him, by the way.) And, a lot of rocks. Some of these rocks are purported to be Geodes, and [...]
Full Story »I’ve been waiting all fall for this moment…
The kid’s busy sports calendar left the coldest weekend this fall as the only spot on the calendar to take the dock out. This wasn’t the windiest weekend this fall, but it was close. We were wearing our winter coats while my husband stood in the water to take out the poles. Luckily, the [...]
Full Story »UPDATE: Are You Girls Ready?
Interesting how time heals. As the original wake-boarding video reveals, there were no jumps, no celebration of skills, and no mention of how far he has come since that fateful day when the water split his tibia and ankle. In honor of the pain, the surgery and healing, I have appended this video with some of [...]
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So, We Sat By The Fire Instead
This year was billed to be one of the brightest Perseids meteor showers in decades, but a full moon kept even the dark sky hovering over the water too bright to see all that action in the sky. Out on the water, the stars light up the night like a disco ball. But that’s only if the [...]
Full Story »You Could Put Me To Sleep Like Rip Van Winkle
No matter how much you try to turn your head when you see the school supply bins when you walk into the grocery store, you can’t deny that fall is coming. You can see it in the way the grass is a bit browner than it was in May, and yes, the air is chillier, [...]
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