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    A Florida Story

    The sixth day of our virtual road trip takes us southeast from Alabama to Florida. I’ve been in Florida exactly twice–once in 2009 and once in 2015–both times for work, and both times I saw virtually nothing. No Disney. No Keys. No ocean. Since that’s the extent of my story about Florida, I asked my friend Sheila from Making the Most…

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    First Day of Fall

    To be honest, the weather around here has felt like fall for several weeks now. It’s definitely been cooler. Crisp mornings. A few rainy days. Even some of the trees in our neighborhood have started changing colors. But I have this thing about not rushing the seasons, so I don’t usually get out my fall decor until the official first…

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    First Camping Trip

    We made plans to go camping at the nearby state park this past weekend. Every evening last week was taken up with finishing a few things on our “new” vintage trailer before Lyle felt comfortable taking her out. The major project was the water tank. It wanted to leak every time we filled it past a certain point. Lyle had…

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    Vintage Trailer Makeover Progress

    We’ve made a lot of progress on our vintage trailer makeover this past week. We still have a lot to do, so I don’t have a cutesy “reveal” photo yet, but I wanted to show you all the hard work Lyle has been doing. Our first project was to fix the floor. You can’t tell from the picture, but much…

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    Vintage Trailer Makeover Begins

    We still haven’t decided how extensively we are going to remodel the old trailer we bought last week. It really does need a lot of work, but we think it will be usable without a complete overhaul, so that’s our first objective–to get it to where we can at least use it for the basics. The first order of business…

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    Vintage Trailer Project

    I’ve thought for a long time that it would be fun to get a run-down vintage travel trailer and fix it up. I mean, have you seen some of the darling trailers on Pinterest? Lyle didn’t exactly share my vision. Don’t get me wrong. He loves having a trailer. He just wasn’t all that enthusiastic about the idea of a…

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    A Little Free Library

    Last fall I posted about exploring the Little Free Library movement in our area of Denver. There were several close by so we enjoyed putting the coordinates in our GPS then driving around residential neighborhoods trying to spot them. Soon after we moved back to Idaho, I discovered this one just across the street, tucked away in the Community Garden.…

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    Selway Falls Day Trip

    Lyle loves to come up with weekend adventures for us, and I’m more than happy to go along for the ride. This past Saturday he picked a route out of his Backcountry Roads Idaho book that would take us down into central Idaho. Laura had the day off so the whole family got to go, and we made arrangements to meet…

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    Weekend on the Oregon Coast

    Something Lyle and I have been looking forward to ever since we moved back to Idaho this spring is our traditional* trip to the Oregon Coast for his birthday. I always have Friday afternoons off, so Lyle took last Friday afternoon off as well and we headed out about 1:00. We live in the panhandle of Idaho, just a few minutes…

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    Retired Geocache

    We discovered Geocaching back in 2001 when our kids were still pretty young. It’s such a fun family activity, especially in our area. Early on–in August 2002–we decided to place a cache of our own near our home in Kellogg, Idaho. After filling a coffee can with an assortment of trade items, we set off up the mountain to place…