Yeah, that photo above has nothing to do with this post. But I’m tired of thinking about inside, probably like most of you. I know that those of us stuck at home are lucky to have a home to be stuck in, and some of us are fortunate to be working from home and not […]
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Mystery of the Park Model, Solved
If this were a hard-core journal-style blog, I’d write about how Banjo’s one “character flaw” bubbled up yesterday. See, she has anxiety over most stranger dogs (not all), and she used to have to deal with that on every walk in the city. But here she seems to be chill about them … until a […]
Insomnia in a Small Space
Editor’s note: This is a real-time post, so to speak, so all photos were taken in the dark with low lighting. That’s my excuse, anyway. You guys know I am a terrible sleeper and always have been. Back when I lived in a house (oh, way back before retirement and the coronavirus and life in […]
Easy to Clean; Hard to Clean
Here’s another non-travel-related post, more like an answer to a faq. Tracy tells me I’m going to run out of topics before this quarantine is over, but truth be told I’ll run out of interesting topics. Consider yourself warned. In any case, like a lot of people stuck in their homes right now, I’ve been […]
Favorite Doodads in the Trailer, Cont’d
This post is brought to you by a rainy day in quarantine. I’ve mentioned earlier that Airstreams are beautiful inside and out, but when they’re new they’re like model homes: decorated blandly. (Well, all but the Tommy Bahama models, which I would go bezerkers living in full-time but would love for a weekend getaways. They […]
An Exciting Day in the Campground, Truly
Yesterday was full of entertainment! We took a lunch of sesame noodles and stir fry out to that tiny island at the end of the lake and enjoyed the sun quite a lot. First, though, I had to dig through this to find a short-sleeved shirt! Found it. I disrupted only about a month’s worth […]
We Have Travel Plans!
A friend pointed out that one thing making this quarantine difficult is that she doesn’t have any plans for the near future. It’s disconcerting enough that time is out of whack, but having nothing concrete to look forward to makes this even stranger. Our spring travel plans had been based on our house sale—it’s under […]
Lake Ruth Ann
Turns out it pays to look at a map. (You’d think I would have figured this out after 13 years working on a magazine about mapping.) I’ve been calling the bit of water here a pond, but it’s named a lake—either Lake Ruth Ann or Small Country Lake depending on your source. The handy map […]
Banjo’s Story
Chapter 1: My Puppy Days I grew up on a farm in southwest Virginia, about a day’s trot through the woods from where I am now. My sister and I used to roam the farm, and we’d have a hoot chasing all the livestock—which we got yelled at about a lot. I loved it though. […]
Campground Tour
Even now when campers have been banned from campgrounds if they have reservations of fewer than 14 days, this is a busy place. All the vacationers left, but the full-timers are still here—those who work on site and those who live here but leave for other work very early each morning to return like clockwork […]
