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Tag: Nature

  • Last Frontier Father’s Day

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    Hope y’all enjoyed a great Father’s Day. Yesterday Grant made the 70-mile trek from Anchorage’s ‘big city’ environs to the wilds of Chickaloon to spend the day together canoeing, fishing for trout, and 4-wheeling through the boondocks … a 5* Father’s Day! … (No, I didn’t actually bite into that trout 😊) “This is the…

  • Afternoon Art and Neighbors

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    Bright sunshine and balmy 72 degrees lured Ellie and I to take a short drive around our neighborhood. Our game-cam revealed Mr. Bullwinkle was also out strolling through our backyard.  Don’t know Mrs. and young Jr. were roaming. Here’s a few pics of some of the scenes of our Master’s artwork that held us ole…

  • Home

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    Each of us has that special place where we may leave, but it will always claim the place our heart calls home. “Hey, it’s good to be back home again.” John’s Denver’s quote echoed in my mind as we touched down in Anchorage last Sunday. I suspect another oft mentioned quote echoed in John’s mind…

  • Nature’s Healing Touch

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    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” – John Muir Such was my Lost and Found therapy wandering the Great Smoky Mountain forests. Shinrin-yoku (‘forest bathing’) is the Japanese practice of immersing oneself in the wilderness for mind and body healing renewal. John Muir expressed it as ……

  • Home Break-in Follow-up

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    Following Smokey’s recent small tree house break-in, our community’s FCW (Feral Crime Watch) director ambled upstream to the scene of Smokey’s recent house break-in. Having endured past disturbing Smokey incidents, Bambi was prompted to gather a few feathered FCW members to discuss Smokey’s latest rowdy behavior that left Mr. and Mrs. Screech Owl homeless ☹…

  • Home Break-in

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    Last evening up here on the mountain – down in the ‘holler’ – over the ‘crick’ our sanctuary’s normal peaceful solitude was violated! . . .  a small tree house was broken into and removed from its location! Fortunately, the small home’s tenants took ‘flight’ and no one was harmed.  Unfortunately, the ransacked home was…

  • Hawaiian Vacation

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    Traveling through 6 time zones with a couple hundred folks packed in a high-speed aluminum tube for 10 hours was the only part of our Hawaiian vacation that wasn’t total fun 😊 A definite Bucket List destination, our time in Aloha-land had our bucket overflowing with lifetime memories. Beginning in Honolulu on Oahu we visited…

  • Family Grubbing – Part 2

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    Mama and her kids showed back up this morning. They almost look cute enough to consider adopting, but not after seeing where they’ve been sticking their noses 😊 Watching all these little guys a wierd thought suddenly flashed through my ADHD noggin’, not an uncommon event for this ole dude . . . Mark 5:12-13…

  • Family Grubbing

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    Moma and her seven piglets showed up to last night and went ‘hog wild’ ‘rooting around’ for grub to ‘pig out’ on … lotsa’ ‘swineing’ going on 😊… that was really bad ☹ Smile … fire up the grill … and pass the Bar-B-Q sauce 😊 Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best…

  • Free Lawn Care

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    We’re truly grateful for the quiet sanctuary from the cacophony of the everyday hustle and bustle our Smoky Mountain digs provides. Up here on the mountain most of the friendly neighbors we share the forest with don’t have lawns.  Those who do are eligible for free lawn care services by roaming groups of feral neighbors…