Personal Visits & Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop 34

Personal Visits Today (Sabbath/Saturday) as I reflect on our day, I am thankful. I am content. And I didn’t even take my usual closely guarded nature time. I’m just gonna be honest and tell you that today started out with me feeling so completely overwhelmed. I’ll blame perimenopause for hormonal imbalances to even out, but…

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Simple Pleasures & Homestead Blog Hop 416

Simple Pleasures This week, despite it being the end of October, found me relishing the pleasure of hanging a couple of loads of laundry out. It’s a simple thing, but just gave me some pause to look around and enjoy the day. Falling leaves–so loud I could hear the rustling of them gently drifting down–gave…

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Riding the Virginia Creeper Trail & Homestead Blog Hop 415

Riding the Virginia Creeper Trail 🚲 So on Sunday, as planned, our family joined our church group in Damascus, Virginia, to ride the Creeper Trail. I wrote about this on 🚲 Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop 🚴, with some links that included some interesting history about the trail. Sunday was actually cloudy all day, but that…

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🚲 Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop 🚴

Welcome to the Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop! All aboard! It’s a day for riding on the Virginia Creeper Trail! Our church is taking a group, and we are all going to ride down the Creeper Trail together. It’s a seventeen-mile ride, along what used to be a railroad line, so the grade is very gentle…

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Laundry Days & Homestead Blog Hop 414

Laundry Days I never used to even think about Laundry days. You know… Monday wash day Tuesday Ironing Wednesday Baking Etc… Then, several years back, our family lived out West for five months in our camper. Laundry day became something we had to plan, and it took half a day a week at least. That…

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