Tired, of the good life
July 12, 2008
I'm tired. Of trying to do everything really well, I can't. I can only do my best and what frustrates the heck out of me is that even my best isn't nearly good enough. Don't tell my kids I said this, I tell them the opposite all the time. I'm ...
Summer day moments
July 11, 2008
Summer is simply heavenly some days. Even though no day is perfect, summer (at least for my garden, farm, beach, woods, mountains, outdoors happy family) tends to have more perfect "moments".
Neighborly-ness
July 10, 2008
Good things are already starting to come out of our weekly love your neighbor flower bouquet deliveries. During last week's delivery of patriotic inspired red Gaillardia, white Chrysanthemums and blue Hydrangeas (to celebrate July 4th) we met a relatively new family to our neighborhood. While talking I found out that ...
Early July Backyard view
July 9, 2008
It was hot today and humid. Before retreating indoors this afternoon to the relative cool (we don't use AC) the kids enjoyed one of their favorite summer backyard activities - sprinkler trampoline jumping. An activity most definitely not recommended by trampoline manufacturers and no doubt against all the "rules". Rules ...
Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival
July 8, 2008
My experimentation with making my own moisturizing cream is included in this week's Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival over at the funky Home Ec 101 What You Wish Your Mama Taught You. Other entries that were of particular interest to me are: A lemon-lime body scrub that sounds good ...
The rest of the camping story
July 7, 2008
Ok, so Friday was a tough day. I guess looking back it wasn't quite so bad. All I had to do was hike uphill (both ways it seemed) 5 miles through bug infested forest and muddy bogs. I take that back, it was nasty. Saturday however, was a gift from ...
Funky Falls
July 7, 2008
I have no idea why the shot came out this way. The camera was in a manual setting I don't usually use. But I'm really pleased with the result. Laurent crossing Bear River at Screw Auger Falls, ME var addthis_pub="rtougas";var addthis_feed="http://fimby.tougas.net"; var addthis_pub="rtougas";
