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Manito Park
It’s amazing to me that a person can live somewhere for years and still discover new places! Especially when it’s been 12 years (that we’ve lived in north Idaho) and the “new” place is a 90-acre park on Spokane’s South Hill that has been there for a hundred years! I just gotta wonder, how in the world did we not…
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Last Camping Trip of the Season
We’re die-hard campers. Not extreme campers, mind you, but we usually go later in the season than most people. The campgrounds are quieter this time of year, naturally, but we also enjoy the fall colors, the cool crisp air and the warmth of the campfire. This past weekend we had sunny skies and brisk temperatures. Lyle and I went…
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Maud Hart Lovelace Reading Challenge
I love old-fashioned “girl” books. When I was growing up (and voraciously reading just about anything I could get my hands on… okay, who am I kidding? I still do that!) I loved series books. I also figured out quite early on that if I particularly enjoyed a book I should look for more books by the same author. And…
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Books Read in September
…for the 2010 100+ Reading Challenge: 78. A Hope Undaunted by Julie Lessman 79. A Memory Between Us by Sarah Sundin 80. Her Daughter’s Dream by Francine Rivers 81. The Black Madonna by Davis Bunn 82. Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 83. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 84. Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston 85.…
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Camping on the St. Joe
Turns out, as I’ve recently discovered, if you keep a man in town over the weekend, he’s gonna go in to work, at least a little while. So if the weather forecast is promising and the man says, “Wanna go camping?” I say, “Let’s go!” This past weekend we stayed at a Forest Service campground along the beautiful St. Joe…
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Mr. Moose Goes to Town
We only live about 2 miles from the print shop where Lyle works, so he usually comes home for lunch. Today as we were finishing lunch, his cell phone rang. That’s not unusual either, as his co-workers often have questions that need immediate answers. But he wasn’t on the phone long this time. He hung up and told us, “Loren…
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Happy Birthday, Mother!
Recently I came across this sweet picture of my mother and her older sister celebrating their first and second birthdays respectively. Aunt Donnie’s birthday is earlier in September and Mother’s is today, so they were just over a year apart in age. Mother says they always celebrated their birthdays together growing up. They went out to lunch to celebrate this…
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Books Read in July and August
I failed to get my reading list for July posted earlier… so continuing with the 2010 100+ Reading Challenge, here is my reading list for July and August: 63. Touching the Clouds by Bonnie Leon 64. The Seeker by Ann H. Gabhart 65. Katy’s Debate by Kim Vogel Sawyer 66. Premiere by Melody Carlson 67. Amish Proverbs by Suzanne Woods…
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Labor Day Camping Trip
We enjoyed spending the holiday weekend as a family at one of our favorite Forest Service campgrounds “up the river.” It was relaxing to get away for a few days and just sit and watch the squirrels and chipmunks who put on quite a show for us! We also had fun hiking, biking, reading, talking, driving the back roads, and…
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Geocaching Adventure
Our family adventure this past weekend was a geocaching day trip to northeastern Washington. We logged two microcaches, two regular caches, and one did-not-find. The microcaches were pretty much of the cache-and-dash variety along the side of the road. We don’t usually bother with those, as our objective in going geocaching is to find fun out-of-the-way places and spend time…
