I feel like a kid on Christmas. I have energy again, for one thing. It’s my favorite time of year, too. I do wish we’d had more rain, so that the trees would be in vibrant color, but it’s still pretty, and the weather is great. And iron supplements rock!! lol I’m a bit bummed that I pretty much missed my favorite time of year for hiking, but I like hiking enough to do it when it isn’t my favorite time, so I’ll survive 😉
We recently took a spontaneous two-day trip with some old friends, and it was soooo great! Beautiful weather, beautiful fall foliage in the mountains, and the best of company! Here are some pics…
While there, they told us they’d once heard that there was a place to stay in the area where you had to park, and carry your belongings on a hike to get to the shelter. We don’t know what kind of shelter it is, or whether this place even still exists, but it is certainly on our research and do list!! I can’t think of anything more cool at the moment.
Hiking seems to be the subject for my days lately, as it is popping up in several different areas in my life. I love to hike, and luckily, my honey does, too, and both kids – they’d sure be miserable if they didn’t, I guess, because they’d have to go with me anyway! lol Anyway, my daughter’s Girl Scout troop recently voted to work on the hiking badge, these friends just told us about this “hike to your shelter” sort of accommodations in the Smoky Mountains, and I had recently set a mileage goal for myself for the time-frame of October 1 to May 31 – 100 miles. So hiking is just on the brain recently. I haven’t tried backpacking yet, and had planned to do an overnighter tonight, with the family, but the area we had planned to go is expecting rain in the middle of the night and early morning, which wouldn’t be so bad if it were warm, but not for my first trip, when it’s also going to be in the high 30’s range in the area tonight; we decided to postpone. So I put another date on the calendar – soon 🙂
My daughter is working on her first lapbook for a postal letterbox ring, and it’s a really neat little thing. I had heard the term before, but not being much the crafty-lover, I didn’t get any further than looking it up. She is enjoying it, though, and is old enough not to need my help for the crafty part. She wants to look at her options online for different elements and have me print off the templates, but mostly she’s on her own – just the kind of project I like for my kids to do. I get to carve the stamp for the postal, though, so I’m very happy with the way it works out for both our contributions.
Laundry beckons me, with an annoying buzzer, so I’m off.
Reflections 