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Sunday Happy

October 23, 2022 Colleen Stem

This past week went by so fast. I can’t believe it’s Sunday already but at least it was a super productive week so we all good.

And really, nothing to extravagant took up my time. I threw a shit ton of pots, the mr and I (mostly the mr) hooked up the new cast iron radiators in the downstairs, I spent a bit of time ripping shit out the garden, and we carve pumpkins with Coco. (Judah ditched us and the girl wouldn’t get out of bed so just the three of us. It was nice. It was easy.) The tops of the week (besides the pumpkins, duh), has been the weather..Super freaking fantastic! Vermont done good.

Today is suppose to be another gorgeous fall day. I am super excited and really sad because it is our last camp if the year. What is weird is that this will probably be the first time that our last camp isn’t going to involve snow and honestly am kinda sad about it. I enjoy waking up in a tent freezing my ass off. And snow, I am ready. Just think in a few weeks time… That makes me happy.

I don’t have any links or pictures this week, I am slacking! But I am going to start posting a few new recipes soon so get ready!

-C

In sunday happy Tags Sunday Happy, Vermont, Fall, Pumpkins
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Sunday Happy

September 22, 2019 Colleen Stem

I am feeling pretty sleepy at the moment. Actually, all week I have been tired due to the fact that the mr has been snoring so loud that it wakes me up in my sleep. We both have some allergy stuff going on, but he has got it really bad and so he snores really loud. All. Night Long. And I don’t sleep. It is really annoying.

Other then that, well things are just fine and dandy. HA.

The week started off with camping at Half Moon Pond State Park and oh was that place fantastic. A sweetie little pond in the middle of the woods. We got a camp site pretty much right up against the water and there were not a lot of people so it was super quite. This time of year most camping is pretty sparse as far other campers go which is just the way I like it. After setting up camp we took a great hike to another cute pond high up, went back down and did some kayaking. The mr fished, I paddled around in circles. After that we hung out for a bit and then it started to rain just pinch so we walked around until it stopped. Even the rain was lovely, especially watching it hit the water. It was just one of those times when all was feeling right and good.

And then after we ate, sang kumbaya by the fire, slept, and woke up, we made the coffee and headed back as usual.

Then life. Work, people, dinners with the littles. Picked up farm share where we are getting less and less of the sweet summer produce. I trained a person on how to load glaze kilns. Made banana bread. I also managed to spent way to much time on hold on the phone. The mr kept nice and busy spending half his time painting at one of the houses and half his time digging the hole on the back of the house which made for a slight anxious me due to all the dirt he has been trailing into the house. And best yet, I got my first PUMPKIN. Sure, it is just a little bitty pumpkin, but I got it and I will not eat it until I get a few more to strategically place around the house as edible decor. (Why not buy pumpkins that you can look at AND eat?) Plus the weather. All week, all super great. So yeah, a good hardy week.

Yesterday was Jackson’s 18th birthday! (Happy Birthday buttface!) which just sounds freaking crazy. Sure he is not my kid, but I have a nephew that is now a legal adult. That just seems wrong but it is what it is and I am just tuning into a old lady. Ha. And so we partied family style with food and cake and absence birthday cards (thanks to the mr). We jokes (many to dirty to mentioned) we laughed, we ate, then we left. Early because being a Saturday night the boy (man) had his own parting to do. And I am old so I needed to go to bed.

Back to Sunday. Today we head to Gifford Woods State Park. Really excited about this one. Just last week the mr and I heard a story on VPR on how there are very few parts of the forest in VT that have any old growth (over a hundred years) left and there is old growth forest at this park. I am hoping we get to see lots and lots of big ass trees!!!! What more can you ask for? Maybe a long ass nap on the drive down there. Jeez I am tired.

Internet links from the week.

-There is hope yet. Young People Lead Millions To Protest Global Inaction On Climate Change.

-21 Comforting Dumbledore Quotes To Make You Feel Slightly Better About How Shitty Everything Is Right Now. Thanks Dumbledore, I needed to hear this.

-There is a spider that has been living in our bathroom for a least a few months. They don’t bother us so yeah, we just let them be. Why You Really Shouldn’t Kill the Spiders in Your Home, According to an Entomologist

-3 Tips to Keep Apples Fresh for Much Longer. Always a hassle. I always want to stock up on a years worth of fresh apples but know that they will not last THAT long.

-Pictures of how people store books always makes me happy. UPDATE: BOOK SMART.

-Speaking of books, I just finished this one and it was really good. The writing, the story. Just a good book.

-You can’t be productive without routines and rituals. Here’s why. I am all about routine and ritual, like crazy stuck on them to almost a fault. I sometimes think I need to get out of them….

-Tell me this isn’t freaking cute as hell. Stop and Smell the Flowers: Dick van Duijn Captured a Squirrel’s Floral Delight

-The Woman Who Convinced Me That Everything Bad Is Actually Good. Going to take a look at this book for sure.

-I want to go see this DRIED FLOWERS CAVE. -

Pictures from the week

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-C

In Barbara Eats, internet links, photography, pictures, sunday happy Tags Sunday Happy, Everyday life, pictures from the week, internet links, family, Vermont, Vt State Parks, CAmping, Half Moon Pond, Farm share, Summer, Fall
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Sunday Happy

September 9, 2018 Colleen Stem
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Welcome fall, I have been waiting for you. Now please stay.

We started last week  with a picnic lunch at the state house then driving to the middle of the woods and checking out a piece of land then made our way over to our campsite. Went for a nice long hike, the mr did a little fishing, and I saw more amazing mushrooms then I was able to take pictures of. Then back to the camp site we went. I always bring along a book that I am pretty into for camping (because that is what one does while camping) but this time I grabbed a new book from the library right before we left. And well shit, was I ever so surprised that is was more or a less a smutty graphic romance novel and so because I am not really into that crap, I was bookless and felt kind of lost. Goof. But it really wasn't so bad, the mr kept me company and I found an old newspaper to use as my morning reading so there was that.  And I went and returned that book when we got home and got some books that were not so smutty.

Then we had  dinner at Sha na na's with Paul, Barb, and my Mom. I made a salad with lots and lots of corn in it. Huge hit that Paul has requested that I make him that exact salad for his birthday that is in like 5 months, because I guess I can't make him a salad any time before that? Ha. My family.. weirdos. 

And then I went and done it.  I dropped the fucking blender on my big toe and it pretty much ruined my life. (but not really)  My toe swelled up turned a nice shade of bright red and the nail, slowly but surely, turned completely black, and I was barely able to walk for like 2 days. It was tough goings for a while  there and I almost performed my own medical treatment involving a lighter and a paperclip but the mr was not having it and in the end, my nail just started falling off anyways so you know, not so bad anymore. And that is enough about my gross toe.

Mid week was the same as usual. This is that, work, me hobbling around and listening to way way way too much  of the supreme court hearings on NPR, which just made me mad but I did it anyway. There was farm share, so many garden tomatoes, cooking all those garden tomatoes, freezing and eating all the garden tomatoes. My garden is getting to that point where I am starting to rip stuff out. I was going to do a fall planing but the little fuck of a rabbit that is living somewhere close keeps eating everything so I am just going to call it for the season. No more new plants, I'll just get all my kale at the farm. But that rabbit, he needs to get his shit together and find a new place to live next year cause I am getting sick of his attitude. I yell at him but he just keeps come back and taking what he wants. Not cool rabbit, not cool.  

 And after 2 years of research and saving money, I finally got a new camera!!! My old one finally is dead so I needed to do it. I have barely used the new one, only for a couple hours because I am scared I am going to break it (haha, but really) or cover it in bread dough (which will eventually happen). Annnnnd we finally got a new tent! I am very much excited about that. We even named her (yes, it is a she tent) Marigold because thats the color she is.  A new camera and a new tent, all in one week. That was very mentally draining.  I'll  still buy groceries and toilet paper, but thats as much I can handle for a good long while. 

Littles came over for dinner on Friday. Miley started field hockey so we had the just the boys for a while. The mr ands Judah played soccer (Judah won) while me and Coco sat in lawn chairs with a giant bowl of cantaloupe. Every time one of the boys scored a goal he would get up and walk the bowl over to them for a snack score. It was pretty freaking amazingly cute. Then when Miley got home, I made pizza (in the shape of a W for Judah be cause he was a WINNER) and was some how conned into letting the mr and Miley go to the store and come back with 3 apples and a giant bag of sour patch kids. I ate an apple, they all ate candy. 

Woke up early yesterday morning and I was cold. YES, COLD! And it was amazing and I was so excited because I wasn't hot. I threw on a sweater, socks, and a hat and the mr and I went on to paint the outside of one of our houses for a good part of the day. Then home I went to scrub the paint off my body, run to Costco to get the Judah his new glasses ans a hot dog, then back home to scrub clean the house. (if you haven't caught on by now, Saturday evenings are my "clean the shit out of the house" days)  L

Today we are off for more land exploring and camping adventure. I am so excited, first to see some more land  because maybe some of this land will be what we are looking for and might be our land! And secondly because camping in cooler weather is the best. We can actually sit near the fire, want to sit near the fire, without sweating our asses off.  I got my knitting, a book (a good book), and tea bags galore. An extra blanket, the long underwear and socks, and even a pair of mittens and a hat are packed. It is going to be fantastic. 

 Time I invested in internet looking

- Plastic is terrible and this is where it is all going.  THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH  which leads us to  Scientists get ready to begin Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup.

-SO lets all try to use a hell of a lot less plastic, yea?.  6 Doable Ways People Are Going Plastic-Free

-What are the smartest animals in the world and how do we know? We know cause we be smat too.  

-Have you ever seen a praying mantis? I have ans they are pretty crazy. It's Praying Mantis Mating Season: Here's What You Need To Know

-Pink and green swoon. A COLORFUL HOME WITH HEART.

-This Start-Up Will Get Rid of All Your Ex's Sh*t For You SO I guess no more trashcan fires full of clothing and pictures?

-Wouldn't to be nice to not be aware, but better yet, just not to be stressed at all.. Can You Be Blissfully Unaware of Your Own Stress?

-Can You Eat Something That Has Freezer Burn? Here's What the USDA Says.

-Why are Americans obsessed with front lawns? Good question.

And of course pictures from the week.

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In the great outdoors, the fam, sunday happy, pictures, photography, internet links Tags camping, Vermont, Vermont State PArks, Vermonting, Fall, NAture, family, everyday life, pictures from the week, Sunday Happy, love, internet links, photography, good times
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