Fall in love with being alive
This week we saw it all. Summer weather turned to 3 inches of snow which immediately morphed into Spring. And then suddenly it was Friday and I got my COVID-19 vaccine. In some ways this feels like the first step back toward normalcy. In other ways this feels like summer temperatures… in March… in Upstate […]
I rode horses when I was younger. My Dad still talks about this one horse I would ride that was PSYCHOTIC. Really, you couldn’t turn your back on him or he’d bite you. I’d make my Dad help me saddle him because he’d whip around and snap his teeth at me like an angry dog. […]
I’ve got a fever. Spring fever, specifically. To celebrate Spring I tried another of the Broome County Dozen this weekend and was less successful this time. Jones Park is an odd little place that looks like an abandoned warehouse park. The trails are around back of a mint chocolate chip green building. There is no […]
Well this past week the temperature approached 70, in March. Thank you, weather Gods. This weekend, however, it did not. Me and the dog went hiking anyway. We tried to knock another item off the Broome County Dozen challenge and we were not 100% successful. This was entirely due to my navigation errors. We arrived […]
Then Let’s Try Again Well the last attempted adventure did not go so well. So we tried again. This time was Trevor Sperr Memorial Park in Elmira. The weather was about 5 degrees warmer, but more importantly the wind chill was a lot less. The park is everything you could wish for. It’s got a […]
My insides are trying to crawl to my outsides. I’m sure you’re all feeling this. No? Just me? Maybe a less gruesome description is, I have cabin fever. Are we on the same page now? So I had to get out. Me and the dog tried Hickories Park in Owego. It was loaded with other […]
Last night we played with sparklers and dreamed of summer. It’s funny how smells bring you back to places, how the smell of a sparkler burning on a windy February night can take you to the 4th of Julys of your childhood. The smell of a zippo takes me back to roasting marshmallows over oil […]
Ok, this one’s entirely on me. The last dumb adventure me and my husband took was a joint effort. We wanted a specific generator and I maybe nudged him into taking an 8 hour drive on a work night to go get one. This dumb adventure is 100% my fault. The prize is two battered […]
This was a weekend for birthdays. My niece turned three on Friday and I turned a different age on Monday. So in the spirit of doing things instead of buying things, I took my nieces to Dynamic Ceramic in Horseheads, NY to paint ceramics. My mom came to help which was good because otherwise I […]
I love the words “Spark Joy”. It reminds me of bonfires and that feeling you get on a long, warm night that makes you feel like you can live forever. I felt like it was time to make some space in my life and Marie Kondo has some pretty good ideas on this. I will […]
