on a particularly drizzly and foggy day in early auguest, i was able to meet up with my local hiking group for a little stroll along the appalachian trail in the mount rogers national recreation area. we logged eleven muddy miles and 2700 feet of elevation gain, so it was a decent enough workout, even […]
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july stuff. twentytwentyfive.
i’ll spare you a long intro. here’s the stuff that happened in july, between the cracks. firstly. i’ve lived in winston-salem for 20ish years now. and for the last six, i have driven past this lotus filled marshy area at least twice a day. i always say, “i should walk there someday” and then i […]
holden beach, party of four.
we had a really busy summer and it almost looked like we weren’t going to be able to squeeze a beach trip in, but we had one available long weekend and managed to book a little airbnb at holden beach for an annual dose of salt, sand and sun, just before the school year starting […]
my first ADK high peak. (phelps).
for our final day in the adirondacks, i was able to meet up with my old pal from batavia, andrea. when we were in the area a few years ago, she and i went on a pretty great hike to noonmark and round mountain. this time, she wasn’t sure if she could work me into […]
junie things.
it’s halfway through july as i type this. and we have been keeping pretty busy and active, so this all seems like a million years ago. but alas. i will do my best to recapture the moments. away we go… firstly. a lovely hike with ruby to hanging rock state park. a favorite of ours. […]
second annual girls beach trip
as it so happens, my two girls are bffs with a set of sisters from another lovely family. a family whose mom is willing to take all four of them to the beach for a long weekend. i don’t have much information to accompany the pics she was sending or that i stole from anna’s […]
a very simple last minute lego cake.
once a year, my pal kelley texts me at the last minute, asking if there’s any way i can make a cake for her tiniest offspring, davis. it’s usually prefaced with a bunch of acknowledgements that it’s asking a lot, that she knows it’s short notice, and that she fully expects there’s no way i […]
MAY-hem (2025).
it’s that time of year. when all the anniversaries and birthdays and mothers days and end of school concerts and graduations and field days and class parties come together to create the most chaotic month of mayhem for our little crew. and then there’s the in between stuff. and that’s what i’ll be talking about […]
the end of elementary….
the last lidkid, hazelnut, is done with elementary school. our k-5 years were pretty non-traditional… a few years of public school at two different elementary schools for ike, followed by several years of road school and home school for all three kiddos. but, the final three years of elementary school for hazel were spent at […]
impromptu hike with hp
when your one and only local hike friend asks if you can go on a spontaneous-ish hiking trip, you make it happen. (it wasn’t that hard, actually, i don’t have that much going on). heather and i had been to elk knob a year or so ago, but it was in the winter and super […]