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I have anticipated this moment from the second we knew we were heading to New Hampshire. SNOW! I purchased my big, long, warm Land’s End coat, snow shoes, variety of socks, leggings and so on. Well. This week, it finally happened and I am ready to report on my experience. The day before it snowed,…
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Bandit and I took a hike this week on part of the Sunapee Ragged Kearsarge Greenway. My knee was (thankfully) feeling better but I wanted to play it a little safer and explore some of the beautiful areas the Hubby has explored. It actually works out nicely, he hikes it when I am working and…
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Are we ever going to do away with Daylight Savings time? Twice a year this nonsense……although this year in New England I am in serious shock——it gets dark up here at 4 freaking thirty!!!! And dark is DARK! I never fully appreciated the expression, “dark as night” until now. High beams in the car are…
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Yesterday I took my first solo hike, 4 miles (probably a little more). I took Bandit, so not completely solo, but he doesn’t talk back so mostly solo. It was an overcast day and ending up lightly raining, but the temp was nice 60’s and I was itching to get out there, so off we…
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My grandmother is gone. It’s taken me a week to put this in words. It still won’t be adequate. Alzheimer’s robbed my sweet Mimi of her memory this past year, although it was picking at her memory for a few years, the COVID lockdowns escalated her memory loss to a level requiring continuous monitoring in…
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If home is where your heart is, my home (and heart) are split: 1/2 in Florida with our kiddos and fam and 1/2 in New Hampshire with the Hubs. For the past few days I’ve been in Florida with the kids getting an in-person overview of the house post-hurricane demolition and to coordinate repairs and…
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A few weeks ago, the Hubs and I hiked Mt. Cardigan. My first “big” mountain at 3,121 feet at the summit, a 3 mile “moderate” hike. The payoff: some self esteem for mama. Oh, and a little 360degree vista, but we’ll come back to that. When we were making plans to move up here, I…
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In my last post, I waxed on about my love for October and the gift of weather change. The downside to that (in Florida) is this time period is infamous for pretty strong weather, i.e. hurricanes. This year was Ian. Much like our first-born, this storm was a force. Our neighborhood, like many, experienced historical…
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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” Anne of Green Gables In Florida, that quote always resonated with me as that is often one of our “sweet spots” of weather. Perfect temperatures, low humidity, and a skip in the step that comes with knowing that the respite from the blistering…
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I found a hiking friend who is also a traveler and for three weeks in a row our mutual day off was rainy and our hike was rained out. This past week we decided to go for it; we both had rain gear and decided to test it out. As it happened, it was cloudy…
making the trek
Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!
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