We’ve had a fair bit of rain in the past few weeks, which we’ve needed. However, today is a lovely sunny autumn day and I went for a long walk (about 3.5 mile return) with the camera. Here is the mountain ash tree right in our yard. This clump of trees was struck by lightning…

The house we live in was an accident. It was never meant to be a house, really. My in-laws built it almost thirty years ago as cheap as they could because when their house up north sold, they were going to build their dream house. Meanwhile they had spent the entire summer living in a…

the beautiful view beside the road 

Hubby and I did a fact-finding mission on Saturday regarding the pricing of modular housing. We had already decided that a fairly small and inexpensive two-bedroom unit would be adequate as we could install it over a raised basement for added square footage. It had been about five years since we’d priced these units and…

Well, virtually. Back on January 16, 2008 I bought my first pedometer and discovered how lazy I was. Some of my friends admitted they were lazy too. By January 29 we’d decided on a virtual hike, and set up a blog, Walking to Somewhere, to track progress. In February of 2008, we did a shakedown…