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Peaceful Moment With the Dolphins on the Beach
I made it back to the beach! This time when I was watching the dolphins I was more prepared to get some footage to share with you. I hope my adventure brings you some joy, inspiration and a peaceful moment dolphins on the beach! I kept it short and sweet this week in hopes it brings you the peace the dolphins brought me! If you enjoyed this post you may find my Sunrise Sessions or Silver Lake adventure interesting as well!
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Fall into this warm, delicious, and easy Autumn Stew!
It’s fall! I know a lot of people love fall. They look forward to it all year. I’ll be honest. It’s not really my favorite. My trouble is I just feel like it’s ushering in winter. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few good points. Here in Vermont we really do have a spectacular show when the leaves change most years. I can’t deny that it really is beautiful for a few weeks. The other thing I do enjoy when fall comes is the food. I really love some good comfort food. A warm stew really is lovely in the fall. Autumn/fall stew- A warm hug from your kitchen…
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In Memory of Strong Women
I have been lucky enough to have had many strong women in my life. I hope I can live up to half of what I’m left to only imagine they would expect of me. The one thing I know they had in common was high expectations. I was the eldest female in my household from just before my 5th birthday. My dad wasn’t one to put that position on me, but I felt it none the less. Before that my mom raised me to be a strong, independent spirit. Small moments with her taught me to express being thankful as well as the importance of making myself heard when it…
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Photography Fun- Night Sky and Exposure Triangle
I think it’s time for another photography fun post. I haven’t spent as much time on my photography as I’d like lately, but I’ve worked on some interesting things. Specifically, I’ve been working on night photography, attempting photographing lightning, and I got myself a tripod! Oh and I learned there is such a thing as an exposure triangle?! More on that in a minute. Night time sky practice a lot! (Once in a while luck helps out) Recently I’ve been working on nighttime photography. It’s completely different from daytime. At times in the past I have lucked out with a cell phone on automatic, but I’m trying to get a…
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5 Tips from my own relaxed homeschool
This year we have had an incredibly large jump in “enrollments” in home education. Even public school parents have had to adapt by using methods usually thought of as homeschool methods. Now, while I believe homeschool is homeschool, and not really the same as virtual school, or especially public school’s emergency version of virtual school I do realize there are similarities, and those who are “emergency schooling” could definitely do with some guidance. The beauty of home education is that there are countless ways to approach it. Options that have descriptions from school at home to unschooling are all legitimate choices. The most difficult ones to take part in are…
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My 2020 Fire pit project, made with love!
I’ve had a few projects I’ve been working on to make life a bit more comfortable and keep me busy. This week I’ll fill you in on our new fire pit. I can’t imagine having a camp, or even a home with out one. This year though, I decided to upgrade a bit from the hole in the ground we’ve been working with. We’ve been working with just a basic hole in the ground that my daughters and I dug, and I lined with fieldstone for years. There’s nothing wrong with it. We’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from it through the years, not to mention the cost was $0.…
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Time Is Like A River- Enjoy The Ride
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.” ― Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Meditations written in 167 A.C.E. Our life starts with birth. I think most mothers would agree that is a turbulent, but incredibly beautiful time. As painful, and scary as it can be we also want to hold on to it. Looking from a baby’s perspective I’d say it’s at least very scary. Everything is new. That is the point at which we…
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Silver Lake- A Day’s Adventure
So, my husband took a few days off this past weekend. He works a lot, so it stood out. While the girls and I are fine mostly staying near home he doesn’t sit still well. I prefer to make my outings “count.” I go further, but less often. This weekend he had an idea that ended up being a really good compromise. We drove a few hours south to go on a hike we had meant to do before Eldest was even born. (That’s almost 20 years ago!) Back to the past for me Silver Lake has always held a special place for me. It was my mom’s favorite hike,…
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Water usage on the property
So, in my previous post I wrote about my little garden. That little garden obviously requires water on a regular basis, but there isn’t a faucet I can just turn on. I’ve been hauling water several times a week to make sure my garden stays hydrated. It’s been an interesting, and surprisingly rewarding project. At first my garden was just the one little whiskey barrel, but It includes several little “pots” now, and it has been quite hot and dry here for Vermont, especially for Potted” plants. They say you don’t truly appreciate water until you have had to carry your own. I have been lucky in my life when…
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Is anyone in charge of your finances?
I grew up without many resources I’m not a financial professional at all. My experience comes mostly from living without much. I’ve done pretty well with very little for many years though. Most of my life actually. I grew up with a one parent household, and a very frugal parent. For a little while I was single and had an income of my own. It wasn’t a huge income, but I did work myself into a professional level. Being single I wasn’t completely broke all of the time. I could pretty much buy what I felt like when I felt like it. I hadn’t quite mastered keeping trach of my…
