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How to Plan Your First Camping Trip
It’s official. Our vintage camper has been retired. We ended getting a newer one a couple of weeks ago. We are excited. It will definitely make camping a little more comfortable as well as give us the option for traveling with it if we want. As we are getting it set up and loaded with our equipment I pulled out…
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In Which We [Almost] Visit Canada
One of the items on our “spring bucket list” was a geocaching day trip. We decided to get that in over Memorial Day weekend. Lyle is in charge of planning these outings for us, so he planned a route to take us north of here to visit a couple of new-to-us waterfalls as well as hit a few caches. “Visit…
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May in Review
It’s my favorite time of year… late spring headed into early summer. I am so appreciating the warm sunshine… the lonnnnnnnnnng daylight hours… being able to have the doors and windows open… and spending time on the front porch again! Here’s what’s been going on around here lately: Weather in Rathdrum, Idaho for May 2017: Temperature High: 89 Temperature Low:…
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First Camping Trip of the Season
It was not an auspicious beginning. For several weeks we (and by “we” I mean mostly Lyle) had been working on our vintage trailer. We de-winterized it and cleaned it. Lyle repaired the roof in a couple of places. And then he took on the project of replacing the wheels and tires. Finally, we decided it was ready to take…
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Of Writers and Coffee
Six years ago I had the privilege of attending the Northwest Christian Writers’ conference with my friend Susan Marlow. That year I took the Greyhound bus over to Seattle, which was an adventure itself. I learned so much at the conference and enjoyed it thoroughly, but scheduling conflicts and other circumstances prohibited me from attending again. Until this year. Several months ago…
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April in Review
While we aren’t yet having as much sunshine as I would like–it’s been a very rainy, gray spring following a very snowy, gray winter–the daylight hours are longer and the temps are a little warmer, so we are getting out-and-about a little more. Here are the highlights for April… Weather in Rathdrum, Idaho for April 2017: Temperature High: 66 Temperature…
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Update on My Spring Goals
Some of my friends have asked how I’m doing on my Spring “Bucket” List. I think I should have added “blog more than once a week” to my list, but maybe it’s just as well I didn’t, because I may not have been able to accomplish that. However, I’m making pretty good progress on the activities that are on my…
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Shoshone Falls in the Spring
A few weeks ago Lyle began to talk about how beautiful Shoshone Falls is this year. He follows several Idaho scenery accounts on Instagram and he kept showing me pictures. “We should go down and see it one weekend,” he said. Let’s see. It’s about a 9-and-a-half-hour drive so… um, yeah, I guess we could theoretically fit it in two…
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Almost Like a Mini-Cruise
I’ve never actually been on a cruise. Lyle and I like traveling by car so well that I don’t know that we will ever go on a cruise. I won’t say never, but it’s not something on our bucket lists. However, we’ve discovered that we do enjoy taking the Seattle Ferry across Puget Sound, and that’s kinda like a mini-cruise.…
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March in Review
Weather in Rathdrum, Idaho for March 2017: Temperature High: 57 Temperature Low: 17 Breakfast Dates on Saturdays: Jack in the Box Denny’s Other Social Activities: Sunday evening service in our home each week Rathdrum Chamber of Commerce luncheon (on the third Thursday of the month) Recreational Activities: Day trip along the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River to see the…
