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Camping Season Begins
One of the main reasons we bought a travel trailer 3 years ago was to take to the homeschool conventions we attend each spring. The big side benefit, of course, was for regular camping and leisure travel. Our camping season typically runs from April through October, and we had hoped to take the trailer out one weekend before time for…
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How Not to Decorate
Disclaimer: I’m not a decorating snob. I promise! I don’t have a degree in interior design, nor is my home professionally decorated. Now that we are clear on that, I just have to show you the decor of the vacation home in Florida where we stayed a few weeks ago. The first thing I noticed were the Disney posters on…
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Learning and Lounging in Florida
No time for sight-seeing. No time for fun. It’s just all been work, work, work. Too bad “work” can’t be this relaxing every day!
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Family Fun on the Oregon Coast
It didn’t work out for us to get together with extended family this year for Thanksgiving, so we decided to have a mini-vacation on the Oregon coast. We got up early Thanksgiving morning and drove all day, arriving at our hotel just before it got dark. Here is a view of the beach that was just outside our room. It…
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Westbound in Wisconsin
We had a fantastic time at our college reunion over the weekend. Lyle and I met at Bible college, so it was a nostalgic trip for us, back to the campus our romance began 25 years ago this summer. It was great to reconnect with old friends to share memories of that long-ago time, and get re-acquainted. Now we’re headed…
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Mount Rainier National Park
It was a crystal clear day… a rarity in Seattle… and the mountain was “out”… so we decided to come home via Mount Rainier National Park. (please excuse the dirty windshield) Our first glimpse of the mountain this morning… Entering the Park… Pictures taken from the highway through the Park… The highway through the Park…
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Say what???
Sometimes I think my husband just dares me to blog about certain things… such as a couple of weeks ago when we passed this sign while driving down the freeway… First of all… am I the only one who had never heard of “green manure”? I mean, no, I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I do consider myself…
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Tulip Farms
We just got back from western Washington where I hosted the Sonlight booth at the Christian Heritage Homeschool Conference. The event was Thursday evening, all day Friday, and until 4:15 Saturday. I had told my husband that I wanted to visit the bulb farms in Mount Vernon (north of Seattle) if daylight allowed that evening. It was snowing off and…
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Train Trip
A couple weeks ago we had a delivery to make to Seattle on a Monday. We decided to go ahead over there on Saturday and make a weekend of it. Since we had plenty of time my husband thought it would be fun to ride the Amtrak train from there to Portland on Saturday, spend the night at a hotel…
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Weekend in Seattle
We enjoyed a family getaway to Seattle last weekend in celebration of our anniversary. Lyle found a 2-bedroom suite in a hotel in downtown Seattle. We had a great view of the Space Needle from our window! On Friday afternoon, on our way in, we had to detour to Renton to visit Lyle’s favorite place to shop: Fry’s Electronic Superstore.…
