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Last Summer Campout

Bymichelle August 22, 2011July 27, 2022

We had our last summer campout a few weeks ago.    We were fortunate enough to be able to share the fun with my cousin and her family. There’s something…

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Steinbeck’s California

Bymichelle July 30, 2011July 27, 2022

I’ve discovered several personal camping truths- – I need my wide brimmed hiking hat, caps just don’t cut it.-I like bottles over camelbaks.-I’m never spinning in circles around some little…

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Yosemite

Bymichelle July 30, 2011July 27, 2022

I read that Yosemite is a zoo in the summer.   It was, but it was a zoo we needed to see.  I mean, we were so close that it…

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California Part 3, More Big trees

Bymichelle July 22, 2011July 27, 2022

I’ll picking up where I left off…  On Day 3 we sought the pictographs near the suspension bridge over the Kaweah and made it much more complicated than it had…

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California Pt.2

Bymichelle July 22, 2011July 27, 2022

Sequoia is the forest of my dreams.  I’d read about The Big Woods and the Light in the Forest as a girl, but the only image I could contribute was…

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All the Way to California, Pt 1

Bymichelle July 16, 2011July 27, 2022

This time we went all the way there. If it weren’t for giant sequoia trees, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to see California.  For some reason it always brought Hollywood…

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Tributes

Bymichelle June 12, 2011July 27, 2022

I’d like to say I bring flowers to my mother’s grave every month or something.  But the truth is, it isn’t nearly so often.  I don’t know why, I ride…

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End of Year Party Circuit

Bymichelle June 8, 2011July 27, 2022

When I was in school there were two parties:  Christmas and Valentine’s Day.  We got candy canes and a homemade envelope full of little paper hearts with Elmer’s glue running…

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The Girl

Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

You saw my favorite boy. Here’s my favorite girl who is barely a girl at all. But I can still see it. (after the show, day 135) I really love…

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The Boy

Bymichelle May 24, 2011July 27, 2022

Here’s my favorite boy who won’t be a boy for long.   (summer boy, day 133)  (mastermind, day 143) He’s making the most of it and I try to help….

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