Best Moments
- The weirdo cat who likes roasted nori. - My perfect little pretty little early morning sliver moon. - Three straight days of running. And running the entire distances (2.2 miles, 1.5 miles, 2.2 miles...
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- More guinea eggs found and put in the incubator. More peep peeps in a month! - The best pound cake ever made from kerrygold butter and goose eggs. Yum! - A beautiful movie, a magnificent dinner and...
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- Itsy bitsy, teeny weeny little tiny new heifer cow baby! - Feeling like I am finally pulling bit by bit out of the funk that I’ve been in for the first half of the year and being able to look back...
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It’s been a very good two weeks for me! Happy happy!- Sunset farm. Man I love this place! - Photo-a-day project. Here are some of my favorites: - Emotional depth of cows: I love my cows and they...
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- When I went out very early the other morning to work the cows, I heard what sounded like far off loud mewing of a baby kitten, I tried to listen to see where it was coming from, but it was too dark...
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- 3 things I love looking at where I live - The Wienermobile Run - Shot from the top of the hill up on Fox Lane - Tactical snacktical (from facebook) - BNTO lunchbox adaptor for canning jars - Zip...
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- My sweet favorite tree: - Taking time to meditate every morning before going to fire school. - Turn running into a mindfulness practice. I do this now! - Eating a Blue Bell neapolitan ice cream...
View ArticleLet’s Rodeo!
Last weekend I went to one of the local(ish) CPRA rodeo events. The sun was setting behind us and dripped stunning golden-orange light all over everything. I love small town rodeos, they are so...
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A poem that has really stuck with me: “I Am Not I” BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ Translated by ROBERT BLYI am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom...
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A few weeks ago we took a trip to DFW for my birthday. It was a sweet little trip, short, but really great. I didn’t have to drive, a rare treat for me to just ride and watch the clouds and the scenery...
View ArticleI Got Outta La Grange…
A few weekends ago on a whim I drove to La Grange for the parade for the county fair and then the day after to go to the carnival for the county fair. I’m as much of a sucker for...
View ArticleTexas Sunsets
We’ve had some wonderful monsoon weather the previous month which has been a much appreciated change of pace from the usual desert-like summers we’ve had. For weeks, every day would start gloriously...
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- Sunsets and cows never fail to please. - Foggy mornings and racing out of bed to catch the first light. - Gorgeous sunrises, cows to greet me first thing in the morning, and neverending skies. -...
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- “Collect moments, not things.” - After the auction, I drove to the dead end, turned the car off and laid on the hood watching the far off lightning, feeling the cool north breeze, and decompressing....
View ArticleBest Moments – The Superlatively Superlative Road Trip Vacation Edition
- Long, meandering, glorious road trips alone. It sounds crazy, but I *love* having the time to myself, to reconnect with myself, to explore and change my plans on a whim. It’s the ultimate way for me...
View ArticleEpic Road Trip: Part 1 – The Drive East and North
I started re-reading American Gods a week or so before I left on my Epic Road Trip 2013, though I didn’t quite make it all the way through before I left and got caught up in whirlwind driving,...
View ArticleEpic Road Trip: Part 2a – Coming Home
I powered through the last three hours of driving to Pittsburgh, and it was especially a slog after the sun went down. But I arrived in Pennsylvania and it felt familiar and comforting. I drove through...
View Article2013 – Rebuilding: Come What May
Every year, since 2003, I create a CD that was a compilation of my favorite music of that year, things that I listened to obsessively, songs that plucked my heartstrings, each song has its own story,...
View Article2013 – A Year in Photos
While I didn’t pick up my “good” camera for damn near half the year, I snapped a lot of shots with my iPhone this year that I really enjoyed. I got into Instagram, and while it’s not necessarily high...
View Article2013 – In Review
Much of this year has been spent rebuilding slowly from the inside out, trying to replace bad habits with better ones and reconnecting with myself. Aside from the trip up north to see my sister for the...
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