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| I Could Have Been A ... |
I think most people wonder at some point in their lives, what their lives would have been like had they taken Path B rather than Path A. Or maybe life gave you no choice in the matter and you were swept away by fate. Here are a few of my… |
Lynne |
11/17/23 |
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11/17/23 |
| Diana Bread Try #2 |
I know it's been ages since I've updated the blog. Oops, my bad. At long last here is an update to my previous blog about the lost recipe of Diana Bread from Sweden. I really think the last time we added too much water. Sometimes translating cups to liters and deciliters… |
Lynne |
11/15/23 |
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| Diana Bread: The Lost Recipe |
Years ago when Rick and I were living in Germany I accompanied him on a business trip to Stockholm, Sweden. A colleague of his and his wife took us out to dinner at a typical Swedish restaurant. I vaguely remember it as a dark and cozy place. Along with our… |
Lynne |
09/24/23 |
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09/24/23 |
| The Waller [sic] Around Chair |
There it sat in a room full of other assorted bits of furniture at the Salisbury Antique Emporium. The Chair. The warm gold of the fabric (and it is very gold) pulled me to it like a moth to a flame. It was a wing chair, but more. The tag attached… |
Lynne |
09/21/23 |
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10/03/23 |
| Daily Bread |
There is nothing quite like homemade bread. The aroma as it's baking, filling the house with a heavenly yeasty smell. The beautiful golden brown color of the loaves when they emerge from the oven. The crackling of the crust as it cools. I hold the loaf up to my nose… |
Lynne |
09/19/23 |
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09/20/23 |
| A Name for My Blog ... Finally |
No, you have not come to wrong site. This old "new" Jersey Girl lives in the South now and is not really a "girl" anymore. No, I have not changed my gender, just my age. Finally, I found a name for my blog. Please don't tell me you hate it… |
Lynne |
09/16/23 |
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09/16/23 |
| Dinosaur |
(photo: one of the dogs' chew toys) Yep, that's me — a dinosaur. Or my blog is I mean. At least that's what Rick tells me. I told him I wasn't going to post updates on FB anymore and he looked at me like I was nuts. Why not? he asked.… |
Lynne |
01/04/23 |
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01/11/23 |
| Another One Bites the Dust |
Another one bites the dust Another one bites the dust And another one gone and another one gone Another one bites the dust. ~Queen Another year gone. Another Christmas season. Another birthday and finally, at the end of the year, I am a year older, marching steadily onward to that major… |
Lynne |
01/01/23 |
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| Historic Concord Holiday Home Tour |
(A cute display window downtown.) December 10th was a busy day in our little town. First there was a holiday Christmas market of local artisans downtown. We drove in and parked and walked the main street. We took Destin with us since he is the best and most well-behaved dog… |
Lynne |
12/21/22 |
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12/24/22 |
| Christmas Letter 2022 |
Christmas 2022 Glad Tidings of the Year! NOTE: To clear up some confusion regarding this blog post, this is the Christmas Letter we sent out with our cards this year. I am reprinting it here on the blog with some added photos. And yes, it is me writing it. 2022 has brought… |
Lynne |
12/15/22 |
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12/15/22 |
| Why? |
Not sure if I can type with my pinky finger bandaged or not but I am going to try. The vegetable peeler mistook my pinky for a carrot. But I'm going to give it a go. I think the best place to start is with New Jersey. We lived there for… |
Lynne |
12/08/22 |
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12/08/22 |
| I Need Your Help! |
That is, in deciding what the next blog entry will be. I have multiple things running around in my head that I want to write about here but I just can't decide which one should come first. Can you help? Here is a list of things I am thinking about:… |
Lynne |
12/02/22 |
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12/02/22 |
| It’s Official! |
Okay then. Like the title of this entry says "it's official" meaning I am starting up the blog again. I won't be announcing it on FaceBook when I do an entry, so if you want to read you will just have to check back here from time to time to… |
Lynne |
12/01/22 |
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12/01/22 |
| My Thoughts That I Should Never Post |
Nobody reads this dustly old blog anymore anyway. So I decided to post this. If you read this, bless you for caring about this old blog, but please be gentle. I am appalled at our country. What have we become? We are going backwards in time, not forward. We applaud… |
Lynne |
06/26/22 |
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| One Flew Out of the Phoebe’s Nest |
Last week I noticed a cute little bird hanging around our front yard. Especially in the morning hours when it would sit perched on one of the stakes that helps to keep our little pear tree upright. And no, it was not a partridge! Sorry, bad joke. I identified it… |
Lynne |
04/17/18 |
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04/17/18 |
| This Puppy is a Bitch Now |
Well, Natalie is in season. Sigh. She's an early bloomer. Most of our females have not come into season until at least (or almost) one year of age. I don't know why but I thought of that old song by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap 'This Girl is a… |
Lynne |
04/15/18 |
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| France Redux |
As I sit here in my lovely new home, I am struck by looking around me that we’ve decorated with things we bought while living in France, or things that remind us of France. It didn’t start out that way, just kind of evolved. Since we moved in we’ve been taking a… |
Lynne |
04/11/18 |
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| Time to Start Blogging Again? |
I've been thinking. At first it was just a tiny little seed in my brain telling me that I miss writing. My fingers itch. Whether I am any good at it or not, I'll let you decide. But whether I am good or not is not the issue here. I miss… |
Lynne |
03/26/18 |
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04/13/18 |
| Game Camera Clips: Lion vs Moose |
We just got back from a ten day trip in the RV down to the Gunnison area. (More on the trip to come.) One of the first things we did was retrieve the game camera cards from various cameras we have set up in different spots on our land. It's… |
Lynne |
09/18/17 |
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09/18/17 |
| Encounters of the Bear Kind |
(I am still trying to play catch-up on my older blog posts!) We have bears up here but we rarely see them. Other people have reported sightings, and we've caught them on our game cameras that are down by the pond but seeing one around the cabin? No, only once… |
Lynne |
09/06/17 |
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09/07/17 |
| WANTED: The couple that poached wood from our property |
I can't quite believe it, but while we were gone for the day yesterday, September 3rd, our neighbor caught someone cutting wood from our property. He did not challenge them because he said they kind of acted like they belonged and thought maybe we had given someone permission to cut.… |
Lynne |
09/04/17 |
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09/05/17 |
| The Unexpected Demise of a Pack Rat |
Ah, pack rat season has begun. Last week there was a little "gift" left for us by the door on the back deck. It always starts this way. A little leaf, a chewed-off flower or maybe a pine cone or some other treasured little piece of pack rat paraphernalia. Sometimes the… |
Lynne |
08/31/17 |
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09/05/17 |
| Moose Walk |
We went for a walk the other day to collect the game camera cards and change them out. As we were walking past the part of the trail through the forest that gives a glimpse of the bog, Rick happened to glance over and said in a hushed voice, moose,… |
Lynne |
08/29/17 |
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08/31/17 |
| Ten O’Clock Musings |
NOTE: I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and debated about whether or not to publish it, but here it goes! I've got several blog posts pending so I hope over the next few days to wrap those up and get them posted. Laziness. Okay, it's late and… |
Lynne |
08/27/17 |
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08/28/17 |
| The Total Eclipse of the Sun |
sing along with me! <snip>Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia To see the total eclipse of the sun <snip> "You're so Vain", Carly Simon Well, today we attended one of the greatest free shows on Earth, thanks to the dear old Moon and the Sun being in… |
Lynne |
08/21/17 |
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08/22/17 |
| Dinosaur Fossil Cabin |
Did you know that just a little bit north of Laramie lies one of the greatest and most well-known, important fossil beds for dinosaur bones in the world? It's Como Bluff. I've long wanted to see the Fossil Cabin which lies along the old Lincoln Highway route and was once quite the… |
Lynne |
08/17/17 |
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08/17/17 |
| A Quick Trip to the Snowy Range |
Last weekend, when we had company, we decided on the spur of the moment to drive up to the Snowy Range. It's the closest place we know of to get "up close and personal" with true mountain peaks. This time of year though they aren't quite as "snowy" but still… |
Lynne |
08/12/17 |
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08/13/17 |
| A Walkabout |
I have fallen woefully behind in the blogging department. Back in the day I had my blog a "new" Jersey Girl, which I started mostly for family and friends to read and catch up on our lives there. Turned out that hardly any family members read it, but I had… |
Lynne |
06/26/17 |
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| One Step Forward, Three Steps Back |
Sigh. Two weeks ago while on a drive we came across these beautiful harbingers of spring: pasque flowers blooming a tad bit early. How exciting! However since then Spring has been playing a game of hide and seek with us. After we saw the pasque flowers, this came along. A… |
Lynne |
04/09/17 |
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| Not ALL the Snow is Gone ... |
Yesterday we donned our snowshoes and went to check out the status of the big drift on Avalanche Slope. There was so much snow we could not snowhshoe around the drift safely, so we went through the woods below instead. In the photo above, there IS a road underneath all… |
Lynne |
03/24/17 |
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| Looks Like We Made it! |
"X" marks the spot over our land. The cabin is in the trees to the left. I am being a bit premature here folks, but as Rick's last post indictated, we have made it through our first winter and spring is imminent. We will have a few backsliding moments and… |
Lynne |
03/23/17 |
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| Early Morning Elk (and Pronghorns) |
The other day we had to be in town very early for a vet appointment. We left the house at 7:00 a.m. and with Daylight Savings time in place, it wasn't fully light yet. Just as we passed the Wooden Shoe ranch where we pick up our mail, we turned onto… |
Lynne |
03/17/17 |
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03/20/17 |
| Receding Snowline |
Unlike a receding hairline, a receding snowline is exactly what you want to see happening. Finally, the bench makes an appearance for the first time since January, with it's top line sticking out like a row of uneven teeth. And here is what the bench looked like in the Fall.… |
Lynne |
03/15/17 |
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03/15/17 |
| Untitled Late February Post |
Thoughts from Sunday: There is no title for this entry, no real subject matter, so no title either. For two days we've been basically trapped inside these fours walls due to high wind, blowing snow and frigid temperatures. S'no fun folks. We had about 10 inches of fresh new snow on Thursday and… |
Lynne |
02/28/17 |
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03/01/17 |
| Road Closure and Updates |
Hidden Meadows Lane is still closed and it looks like it will be for a while. Some progress has been made however, because a week ago the post on the right was barely sticking up above the snow. There are two other big reasons why the road will remain impassable… |
Lynne |
02/20/17 |
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02/21/17 |
| Cloud Study: Iridescence |
The other day when we were having high winds I noticed this beautiful cloud displaying what's known as iridescence. I quickly grabbed the camera and headed out. Iridescence in clouds is caused by light waves being dispersed as they pass around extremely tiny ice crystals, with the wave lenghts spead out by… |
Lynne |
02/12/17 |
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03/05/17 |
| Avalanche Slope |
Yesterday we donned snow shoes and took Bella and Destin to the bottom (which is what we call Hidden Meadows Lane where it winds between our two pieces of property). This area is also dubbed "Avalance Slope" for reasons that will become obvious as our pictorial goes along. Above is… |
Lynne |
02/02/17 |
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02/03/17 |
| Keepin’ On |
Chimney Rock Yes, we're still here. We've had several people (mostly neighbors up here) get a little nervous about our recent purchase of a new RV. They seem to think we are abandoning ship and heading south for the rest of the winter. Ye of little faith, we are not going… |
Lynne |
01/31/17 |
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02/01/17 |
| Meet the New Member of our Family |
He/she does not have a proper name as yet but OH MY GOSH. We've gone and done it. We are the proud owners of a new RV. It's a Rockwood Ultra Lite (2304DS), 23 feet long, two slides. From the moment I first stepped inside I had a Lucy and Desi… |
Lynne |
01/29/17 |
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02/03/17 |
| Winter So Far |
Haha, right? But seriously folks, it's kind of restricting with as much snow as we have on the ground. We DID however get out Tuesday and took a very quick trip down to an RV dealer in Loveland, only to find that they really didn't have what we were looking… |
Lynne |
01/26/17 |
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01/26/17 |
| My Head’s in the Clouds |
Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way ~taken from Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell If you've followed my old blog (a "new" Jersey Girl -- still active) or our new mutual blog you must have… |
Lynne |
01/06/17 |
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01/11/17 |
| UnDrifted, Brain Dump & Potatoes Don’t Like Being Frozen |
We are undrifted! The roads to town are clear (except for a few passable drifts in all the usual spots) and I am feeling human again. We are expecting snow on Christmas Day, but not a lot. Just enough to make it a true White Christmas. The sun is making… |
Lynne |
12/23/16 |
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12/23/16 |
| Destin’s Downhill Slalom |
On the way up. Destin has been known for his death-defying feats since he was just a wee pup. He loves the challenge of climbing UP. Our big drift is developing on Avalanche Slope and Destin couldn't leave it alone. What follows is a photographic journey of what goes up,… |
Lynne |
12/23/16 |
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12/23/16 |
| Drifting Along |
Not our driveway, but Hidden Meadows Ln just past our driveway. Drifting being the main thrust of this post. We are drifted in. Not exactly "snowed in" because with the amount of snow that we got on Friday is not enough to keep us in. No, it's the darned wind… |
Lynne |
12/20/16 |
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12/21/16 |
| Heading into Town |
I thought I would share the sights we saw when we went into town yesterday to pick up a few supplies for the coming cold snap. There is something special about the colors of the West in the transistion of season. The immaure bald eagle again, same spot! And on… |
Lynne |
12/02/16 |
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12/04/16 |
| WILD Life |
It's been a good couple of days for viewing wildlife. I think we are all glad that hunting season in the high country has come to an end. Yay, no more orange! The pronghorn antelope herd that has been living just over the hill from us is pictured above, obviously… |
Lynne |
11/25/16 |
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11/25/16 |
| We Pretty Much Got What We Asked For |
WARNING! PHOTO DENSE POST! It snowed all day on Thursday amounting to about 5 inches of fresh snow, which is just what they predicted. It came down without wind (thank god) and pretty much stuck to everything. It wasn't the world's prettiest snow to watch falling—the flakes were tiny, but dense.… |
Lynne |
11/20/16 |
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11/20/16 |
| Be careful what you wish for: Weather Forecast |
Severe Weather Alerts - Laramie, WY Special Weather Statement Special Weather Statement in effect until 4:00 PM MST. Source: U.S. National Weather Service ...FIRST WIDESPREAD ACCUMULATING SNOW OF THE SEASON LIKELY ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT... A STRONG PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS EARLY… |
Lynne |
11/15/16 |
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| Ready!Set!Winter? |
Home Sweet Home We think we are ready: Wood all cut, split and stacked.? CHECK. Woodshed painted? CHECK. Winter tracks on the Ranger? CHECK. Small shed insulated? CHECK. T@B stowed away in her winter slot for better driveway access in snowy conditions? CHECK. Rick's snowshoe stitched back up after varmit gnawed… |
Lynne |
11/14/16 |
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11/14/16 |
| Magical Morning |
Yesterday morning was a bit magical. We had rain and a little bit of snow overnight. Not much, just enough to make the ground crunchy. As we sat drinking our coffee a big bank of fog rolled in and enveloped the cabin like a white fluffy cocoon. That good old… |
Lynne |
11/03/16 |
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11/09/16 |