upon returning from a semi successful camping and hiking trip to hanging rock that was cut short, i booked a campsite at stone mountain to try again, two weeks later. i snagged the very last campsite available and when i pulled up i immediately understood why. it was fully exposed, with no tree coverage or […]
jeep
marching along.
look at me. catching up this blog. again. always. eye roll at myself. here’s some stuff that happened in march. (it wasn’t super eventful). we kicked off the month with a championship game for hazel’s baskeball team. i think they went undefeated this season and they won in the finals in a very exciting game. […]
semi-triumphant return to hiking.
as winter turned to spring, i began to get the itch to get out and camp and hike, and i booked myself a little weekend retreat at hanging rock. ran the plan past my pt and had a good plan to make sure i wasn’t an idiot. then, a few days before the trip, i […]
long cold boring january.
i’ll warn you in advance. this might be the most boring month recap post of my 20+ years of blogging. for starters, like half of the month was snow days for the kids. some legit. some not. by the end of it, they were losing their minds a little. just before the new year, i […]
my henry david thoreau birthday.
in what has now become an annual ritual, i spent the weekend of my forty ninth birthday on a solo tent camping excursion in the woods of hanging rock state park. after i dropped off the kids at school on friday, i came home and packed up the cherokee for her inaugural trip to this […]
october highlights, lowlights, and just regular lights, i guess.
whelp. it’s fully fall now. october has come and gone. allow me to tell you about it. first up. the gym. i actually changed gyms this month. long boring story. but didn’t feel like i was getting the value i was paying for. and privately owned gym was planning to move into a building nearby […]