Today we ventured out of Asheville again and went to Chimney Rock Park. The park was pretty cool. We did a short hike to the base of a 400 foot waterfall. Mazie did really good in the carrier, although we failed her by not bringing warm enough clothes. We had to bug out pretty …
Keep reading · 1 minute: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 28Today we left Asheville and headed into the mountains. We drove about 30 miles northwest of Asheville to Hot Springs, NC. Hot Springs is one of the cities that the Appalachian Trail goes right through the middle of. The sidewalk that is on the main street of Hot Springs has “AT” …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 27 - ATToday is a driving day! I’m catching up on the Big Adventure from our hotel room in Roanoke, Virginia. We drove a little over 6 hours but I feel like we put in a lot more hours than that. The first 3 hours were in very busy traffic along the eastern corridor. Six lanes going each …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 23Over this past weekend I applied some bird protection to our house. We live in an area with a lot of birds, and we have large parts of our house where we have a lot of windows. On top of that, I like to feed birds and with the landscaping work that we’ve done over the last three …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Save Some BirdsIf you like to feed birds you are completely aware of the ever-lasting battle with squirrels. They will go through amazing gymnastics to get at the wonderful food in your bird feeder. However, the other morning this scene caught me off guard! Slightly larger than a squirrel, and …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Deer at Bird FeederI recently got my after-Christmas Christmas present. What’s that? Well, if I had something on my list and I didn’t happen to get it, I thought I should clean up that list. We don’t want to have things sitting on their forever now right?! A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to get …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Canon 12x36 IS II BinocularsI’ve had fun this week getting caught up on some hobbies, restarting others, and considering picking up some more. I revisited my telescope for the first time in a while this week. I’ve been wanting an equatorial wedge, so I got that and played around with the whole rig some …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: I 💚 HobbiesLast year we had the landscaping in front of our house redone completely. We used a small, native landscaping firm called Go Native. Native landscaping means that you only work with plants that are native to your area. The great thing about this, other than being ecologically …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Landscaping WondersI was reading some “evergreen” content on BabyCenter.com tonight. They have some semi-decent content targeted at dad-types. Anyway, they highlighted hiking as an activity to do with your baby. I like hiking so took a gander. They mentioned this group started in San Francisco …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Hiking With BabyIt feels like a crime to re-read a book, at least for me. My reading list is as long as my arm (actually, about five times longer than my arm). I’ve got stacks of books that I want to read and haven’t cracked the spine of yet. So, when I think of taking time from all those …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: A Walk in the Woods