My Year – 2011 In Review

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I’ve been working on writing this post in my head for a while now, and I decided the only way to actually get it done was to sit down and start typing.  If a stranger looked at my life during t... Read More

Love The Mountains

I took this picture with my phone today when the girls and I were headed home from submitting their 4-H exhibits to the fair.  It was gorgeous in the mountains today, and it made me smile. AmyNat... Read More

Mountain Biking

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Get a bicycle.  You will not regret it if you live. ~ Mark Twain I have talked a lot since the beginning of the year about how I am working hard to get into shape – not skinnier, or losing weig... Read More

Fanning the Flames

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.  But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.  ~Thomas Szasz The phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird t... Read More

Troopers

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When Harley and Reagan originally told my mom that they would ride with her in the 3 Rivers Race, I figured they’d each ride a couple of miles and then spend the rest of the day in the pick-up d... Read More

Call Me Comfy

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When it comes to clothes and daily style, I’m pretty simple.  I like to be comfortable.  If I never had to be presentable or go anywhere, I’d live in sweats, t-shirts, and fuzzy socks. ... Read More

I Have Will Power, I Swear!

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Post-A-Day 2011:  What can’t you say no to? Everyone has an addiction or a weakness of some sort – the inability to say “no” to something.  For me, there are two things I have n... Read More

Going for a Walk

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,... Read More