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Spring To-Do List
Spring has finally arrived! Our weather is still very gray, damp, and chilly with many rainy days–but it’s spring! We’re seeing the sun a little more often. The temps are slightly warmer and the snow on the ground is gradually disappearing. The grass is beginning to green up a bit and I’m sure we’ll start seeing buds on the…
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America’s Car Museum
We’ve had several weekend trips to Seattle come up recently as we do business with an envelope company over there. It’s actually cheaper for us to drive back and forth to pick up product rather than having it shipped, and if you know anything about Lyle you know he’s happy for any chance to drive. The drive takes about 5…
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Five Things Friday
Here it is Friday already and I haven’t written a blog post all week. It seems other projects have a way of creeping into my days and writing gets put on the back burner. Today is no exception, but just for fun I thought I’d join in the “Five Things Friday” theme and share a few random things that you might…
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February in Review
Weather in Rathdrum, Idaho for February 2017: Temperature High: 45 on February 9 Temperature Low: 11 on February 3 Daylight Hours: 9:35 hours on February 1 vs 11:01 hours on February 28. We’re finally beginning to pull out of the winter darkness! Breakfast Dates on Saturdays: The Breakfast Nook (twice) Corner Bakery (in Issaquah, WA on our way home from Seattle) Jack in the Box Other…
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Winter at Home
I never have understood, if February’s the shortest month of the year, why does it seem so long? We’ve had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks, and yes, some snow, but mostly the temperature has hovered just above freezing. Warm enough to melt the snow, but cold enough to do it very slo-owly. I’m ready for this…
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In Which We Get Lost and Walk for Miles
It all started on a whim. “Hey, why don’t we run over to the Seattle RV show this weekend?” he suggested “Yeah, that might be fun,” I said. “Let’s do that.” To be honest, I wasn’t all that interested in going to the RV show, but I knew the weather in Seattle, gray though it likely was, would be warmer…
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Winter Road Trip: Arkansas to Idaho
For our trip home from Arkansas we wanted to go through Kansas and Colorado for quick visits with family and friends. We left Saturday morning (New Year’s Eve) and planned to be home Monday evening. I had hinted to Lyle that if it wouldn’t be too far out of the way I would also like to stop in Pawhuska, Oklahoma…
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Winter Road Trip: Idaho to Arkansas
Living half-way across the country from my parents makes it hard to get together for holidays. This year we decided it might work. The week between Christmas and New Year’s was a convenient time to close the print shop and it gave us two holidays, one on each end of the trip. We had hoped to leave on Christmas Eve,…
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Christmas Lights Tour
Our Christmas traditions evolve from year to year. I try to keep an open heart when it comes to traditions, because circumstances can change and cherished traditions can go by the wayside. That being said, there are a few things my family likes to do every year when possible. One of those is to drive around and look at Christmas…
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Winter Solstice
According to the calendar, today is the first day of winter. I’m not sure what season we’ve been in the past few weeks but it seems to me that it’s been an awful lot like winter already. We’ve had snow… and ice… and frigid single-digit temperatures. A little bit of sunshine here and there, but mostly gray skies… and many…
