A new word…at least to me: abscission This word appeared in an essay I read earlier this fall and I’ve been enchanted with it ever since. Merriam-Webster defines it as: 1. the act or process of cutting off: REMOVAL 2. the natural separation of flowers, fruit, or leaves from plants at a special separation layer. …
Category Archives: Walk-A-Woods
Quiet in the kitchen
Cooking and baking always connect me to my mother and grandmother.
Can you imagine
attending school for 25 consecutive years? When it started, Andrew was beginning kindergarten and Olivia was beyond excited to begin her first year of preschool at three-and-a-half years old in Mrs. Debby Neubold’s classroom at Little Lamb’s Preschool. Sam was two-and-a-half and got to spend lots of time with me, carrying around his “pack-pack” pretending, …
Thanksgiving 2022
Life is for living
The Weekend’s Hashtag: #aginandstillragin
Sam turned up first on Friday evening and Olivia arrived shortly after —the opening to a FUN weekend. When Sam asked about one of her Masters projects, it was interesting to be “the fly on the wall” and listen-in to a brief, but intense conversation between them. They literally spoke to each other in the …
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Sunday Snowshoeing
In close to 20 years of making maple syrup, this is the first year Keith has snowshoes to make traversing the snowy woods easier in the aftermath of a March snow storm. Plus they are fun to use —and a good workout. Last year Keith injured his achilles tendon while trudging through deep snow in …
A Sweet Season
For almost 20 years, when January starts to wane, Keith begins to watch the daily temperature swings. Daily high temperatures in the 40°s with nightly lows dipping below freezing create pressure changes within the structure of our maple trees and means the sap will begin to run. This can occur anytime between early February and …
I ran 100+ miles every month of 2021 for a total of 1,301 miles. All miles run outside.
In high school it took me 3 years to pass the 12-minute mile running test. When I turned 50 I cheered on my daughter as she ran her first half marathon —it looked like fun. She encouraged me to lace-up and run by signing me up for the Navy 5 Miler in Washington, DC in …
Merry Christmas!
Feeling seen and heard. I asked for a t-shirt gun, and I got a t-shirt gun. 🙂 Wishing family and friends much laughter and love!
Bench…a long seat for several people to sit on.
This one has supported a lot of bottoms sitting on it over the decades. (I’d like to assk it about the humans it’s supported, butt I think that might be a little cheeky.) This bench has been around since before I was born. Made by my dad’s dad in the 50s, it’s sturdy, built to …
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