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Category Archives: nature
OHIO THANKSGIVING 2015 VIDEOS
Thanksgiving 2015 at Rolling Acres Farm in Somerset Ohio! 2015-11-25 OHIO OR BUST [1:18]: 2015-11-26 OHIO COUSINS [1:06]: 2015-11-27 PAINTING OF THE FACES [1:27]:
Posted in animals, art, childhood, comedy, domestic life, face painting, family, food, forgiveness, Friendship, grandparenthood, health, love, making art, marriage, mental health, nature, parenthood
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Home Sweet Home Sweet Home
Sunday, November 29th 2015 Ta da! Arriving home from the best family visit imaginable, with the best souvenirs imaginable … sure feels good. The kids survived their ordeal being chauffeured through the night somehow: As for “souvenirs,” holy smokes. Look … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, faith, family, forgiveness, grandparenthood, love, nature, parenthood
Tagged acclimation, Christmas Tree, city, country, home sweet home, litter box, new home, new kitten, Ohio to Boston, Rolling Acres Farm, Woodbridge Tree Farm
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Ohio Thanksgiving 2015: Horses
Friday, November 27th 2015 When you’re an “old” cowboy with a *huge* heart, you get your grandkids up on a horse. But first, breakfast. Then, it’s off to the barn: Saddle up: And git! Gavin tries out … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, education, faith, family, Friendship, grandparenthood, health, love, nature, parenthood
Tagged Alicia, breakfast, bucking bronco, corn, Dakota, falling off a horse, get back on that horse, getting back on the horse, Grandma Sue, Grandpa Paul, horseback riding, horses, King, most important meal of the day, Ohio, old cowboy, Old Paul, Precious, Rolling Acres, yeeehaw, young riders
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Sacred (“Mundane”) Saturday
Saturday, November 21st 2015 Possibly the greatest part of this day happens first. At the risk of jynxing it I daresay my kids have been developing a true and decent relationship lately. Here they are playing checkers: I sneak … Continue reading
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Tagged Auntie Liz, basketball YMCA, checkers. burnt breakfast, Chico, Chico Head, gig, happy siblings, Liz, mornings in bed, Panther Cave, sacred in the mundane, siblings, sleepy Daddy, tea, tea set, The Fells
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Clarksburg Camping – Setting the Stage
Saturday, October 10th 2015 Come morning we awake to find that we live HERE now: Gavin models one of the adjacent camp sites awaiting our friends. ClaraJane dares herself to climb a stump: Paul gets to work with … Continue reading
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Tagged axe, chopping wood, Clarksburg State Park, hammock, hatchet, Le Crueset, LIVIN, log hauling girl, log lifter, long board, looking comfortable, Mausert's Pond, natural beauty, nature, Paul, pot roast, salamander, sharing with friends, the beauty of nature, this is the life, windmills, wood chopping
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Clarksburg Camping – Getting There
Friday-Saturday, October 9-10th West we go, through a rainstorm, into the night: To the tippy Northwest corner of Massachusetts: As the storm and sun moved East, we moved West and were greeted with fresh; Under the cloak of darkness: … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, faith, family, health, mental health, nature, parenthood, work
Tagged Berkshires, camping, Clarksburg, Clarksburg State Park, Go West, Green Mountains, head West, hearth fire, home sweet home, Petrichor, pitching in darkness, pitching tent, setting sun, setting up in darkness, through the storm
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Camping: This is All We Need
Friday, October 9th 2015 After weeks of planning and days of organizing, literally EVERYTHING we need is all prepped and ready to go. Actually there are already bikes, scooters and skate boards in the car, plus camp chairs, hammock, fire … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, food, Friendship, health, love, marriage, mental health, nature, parenthood
Tagged camping, Clarksburg, Clarksburg State Forest, Crueset, fall camping, family trip, Le, Le Crueset, organizing, packing, travel
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Purity
Wednesday, October 7th 2015 – 7:03am I’m holding my 4 y/o daughter’s hand as we walk to the bus stop. Actually, she holds my three of my fingers, and there is no feeling like it in the world. It’s early, … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, faith, family, food, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood
Tagged amen, Bike to School, Bless us, Bless Us Thank You Amen!, bus, bus driver, gun violence, guns, holding hands, juicy ripe cheek, juicy ripe pear, live in a church, loss, pink and purple, precarious life, preciousness of life, Purple Dragon, silly mom, smell the roses, Virgin Mary
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Tunbridge Fair 2015
Friday-Sunday, September 18th-20st 2015 In honor of Miles’ & Bubble Wow’s birthdays, the family trekked up to one of our old favorite haunts in Vermont: The Tunbridge WORLD’S Fair. I stayed back to grind away at work but came along … Continue reading
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Tagged $1 bills, baby lop, Baby Mary, bathing beauties, Bubble Wow, burlap sac, carney bosoms, carnival games, carnival rides, cavalcade of animals, cheetahs chasing impalas, cute fuzzy baby animals, Dell, holding Daddy's hand, King Arthur Flour, Midway, Miles, Montshire Museum, musical fence, musical rock boxes, Norwich VT, pile of baby lops, state fair, sugar babes, Tunbridge Fair
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