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Dear Diary 2018: Week 28

Erika July 17, 2018

It’s like there’s a sound of crickets over here on the blog. Things have been quiet the last week, and I’ve got a couple reasons for it. Let me get to them in my regular old, diary style post: Sunday, …

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Photo Challenge Days 21-27

Erika July 10, 2018

Even though I haven’t been keeping up with this challenge on a weekly basis over here, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been keeping up at all. In fact, it is one of the things that I have been pretty regularly …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 27

Erika July 9, 2018

Another week gone and another post to write. We’ve hit the half way mark for the year folks, and I’ve been keeping up, for the most part. Besides floating the Buffalo, there wasn’t really too much that stood out about …

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Paddling Down the Buffalo River

Erika July 5, 2018

I think it was back in 2012 when the idea first hit me that we should float the Buffalo River. We’ve passed over this river many a time on one of our numerous trips to Nashville, and have known a …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 26

Erika June 29, 2018

It was a bit of a down week for me, not in a bad way, but I did have a few feel sorry for myself moments. A couple things that got under my skin this week: My feet have been …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 25

Erika June 25, 2018

Sunday, June 17th: Let me just jump right in to last week. Today was gonna be a busy one. Stephen had to check hive 2 to find out if in fact it was queenless. It appeared to be, so on …

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Photo Challenge Days 14-20

Erika June 19, 2018

Taking a thoughtful, skilled, themed photo for every day is proving to be a task. When the theme for the day is easy, not a problem; but when it requires a little more thought and creativity, it’s harder to come …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 24

Erika June 17, 2018

Right now I really feel like taking a nap, but it’s 6 in the evening and probably too late for a nap so I will catch up over here instead. This 24th week of 2018 was a very hot and …

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A Cactus Dress? Why Not

Erika June 15, 2018

I don’t usually follow the theme of, Everyone else is doing it so why don’t I, unless it has to do with a cactus dress, it seems. I grew up around sage brush and cactus, but never really liked them until I …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 23

Erika June 14, 2018

I bring to you today another week of my life. I told you last time this week wouldn’t be as exciting, and I was right. Pretty much the bulk of my week was about deep cleaning the house. That started …

Photo Challenge: Days 9-13

Erika June 8, 2018

Really the best way to learn to use a camera is to use it all the time. And I am not talking about point and shoot situations, I’m talking about figuring out all the settings and shooting in manual mode. …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 22

Erika June 4, 2018

Hello, hello! This was week two of summer break and it was far from a break. It started with a three day weekend and that was wonderful! The boy was off this week as well and we took advantage of …

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Canon D Photo Challenge

Erika June 3, 2018

2018 started out as the year I would, once and for all, get my camera totally figured out. I started the year with a bang. I was tagging along to the boy’s photography class, I was into a 52 week …

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A Spring Vineyard and the Firecracker Dress

Erika May 30, 2018

About a month ago, the vines were just barely leafing out. Also about a month ago, we were feeding new bees and after our best dressed day of the week, we were in the vineyard checking on them as the …

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One Month With Bees

Erika May 29, 2018

We are really liking those bees! I only wish that we would have done this sooner, but now is better than never. So far things are going great. We’ve been thoroughly checking on the hives weekly and checking on sugar …

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Dear Diary 2018: Week 21

Erika May 28, 2018

The first week of summer break for us, and I started it off feeling lousy. Sunday, May 20th: We had to bottle wine. I wan’t feeling so bad, just stuffy enough that it was annoying. A head cold I’m pretty …

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