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Snow Men

February 23, 2010

You’ll never guess what happened.
It snowed.

Like real, REAL, snow. Not just pretty white flakes that fall and promptly melt, but the kind of snow that stays on the ground and sticks around ALL. DAY. LONG!

The kind that you can make respectable enough angels and forts and snowmen from!

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I Went to the Woods…

February 23, 2010

I can’t tell you what it means to me, to us, these trips of ours to the woods.

We get outdoors a lot at home. We know lots of good trails and we often ramble along our favorite creeks. But there is nothing, nothing at all, quite like the feeling that you could walk and [...]

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Spuds

February 22, 2010

One of the most vivid memories I have of my great grandmother is kneeling at her side on a summer day as she showed me how to excavate potatoes. I remember the smell of the earth, the softness of it, and the complete surprise I felt at discovering that real food had been hiding under [...]

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Creekin’

February 17, 2010

There are four new pairs of wellies in this house… and they have opened up a whole new world to us…
… a very small, very magical world.
We’ve been creek walking… and bringing home mini monsters in jelly jars.

We’ve been huddled ’round the microscope, holding our breath and watching, completely smitten with the [...]

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If You Build It…

February 16, 2010

We’ve had so much luck with our bird feeders that we thought it was high time we had some houses in our trees too. Besides, there are some fellas in residence here that are always itching to use the tools, and really what more classic boy project is there than a birdhouse?
Our most frequent [...]

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