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My mommy and me!

Posted on May 4, 2016 @ 2:10 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

I took her on my trail walk! 🙂

And then mom posted this old picture on Facebook so I did this:

Look at all the gray hair!! On both of us!! 🙂

Snake #2

Posted on May 2, 2016 @ 2:30 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

How did I never see any snakes until after I saw the snake crossing sign? 🙂

And no, I don’t care that it was just a cute little green garter snake. Still creepy.

New Zealand!

Posted on April 27, 2016 @ 9:21 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

My walking buddy this morning.

Posted on April 24, 2016 @ 8:30 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Apparently he was a farmer in a past life. 🙂

I finally saw a snake on the trail!

Posted on April 14, 2016 @ 1:00 pm by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Google says it’s a non-poisonous Northern Black Racer.

A walk with the ‘rents.

Posted on April 4, 2016 @ 2:05 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Since we had no kids at home (!!!), we went for a walk! I took Grannie on the trail yesterday and took both today.

I’ve yet to see a single snake in all my walks here.

Posted on March 28, 2016 @ 5:10 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

In fact, I never even saw the sign until recently because I walked the trail the other way and never looked behind me.

I could get used to this!

Posted on March 10, 2016 @ 7:23 am by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Tom was home again today* so I decided to get my walk in even earlier!

* So why Tom has been home? Well, let’s just say he finally got snipped. 🙂

Taking advantage of Tom being home from work this morning.

Posted on March 9, 2016 @ 8:10 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Getting my walk in early!

Katie’s eventful walk in the woods.

Posted on February 28, 2016 @ 2:40 pm by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

We all went out for a walk since it was such a nice day. It was also a test for Katie—she always wants to go with me/Owen but it’s two miles and I know she’d want me to carry her…and that ain’t happening. (Daddy usually ends up carrying her so she’s spoiled…but I can’t do it.) So…off we went. Some days she likes to be the Line Leader. Today she wanted to be pokey and hold daddy’s hand.

And before we even completed the first mile, her legs were tired and she wanted to be carried. See?! I knew it! So Tom carried her off and on. And then…she had to go potty. So off they went for her first potty in the woods! Which didn’t go very well and she peed on her pants (but we were almost finished by that point so no biggie).

Do you see what I saw?

Posted on January 5, 2016 @ 10:37 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Can you see it?

How about now?

From the big picture:

Two got spooked off. The buck remained perfectly still as I walked up the trail and around where he was.

So apparently this is what dedication looks like?

Posted on January 5, 2016 @ 10:22 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Walking in 17° weather. Who am I? 🙂

New year, new trail!

Posted on January 1, 2016 @ 11:05 am by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

Owen and I started the new year with a great hike on a neighborhood trail (we’ve been on parts of it before, but not the whole thing).

And we saw the Whomping Willow!!

And a baby Whomping Willow according to Owen. 🙂

I just ran a mile.

Posted on December 28, 2015 @ 7:46 pm by Jen — 3 Comments ↓

I haven’t ran a mile in, um, EVER?!

I got on the treadmill tonight for my usual mile walk and at about .75 miles I thought “Hey, let me try running the last quarter mile.” I’d run two, walked two, run two, etc., a time or two before, but it was always hard and not enjoyable in the least.

But tonight I felt good and I wasn’t winded so at the one-mile mark, I thought “Hey, let me go to finish out a full 20 minutes” (a mile would have been about 18 minutes, so I was adding another two minutes of running.)

At 20 minutes I was still feeling good so I just kept going. And then I thought “Hey, what if I ran a mile? NAH. I can’t run a mile. But what if I did?” I had a good song on repeat so I just. kept. going.

So tonight I walked .75 mile and ran one mile.

I’m gobsmacked.

Family Walk

Posted on December 20, 2015 @ 2:58 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

He brought the sword but then found a bow and arrow.

Posted on December 13, 2015 @ 3:10 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Walking and watching

Posted on November 16, 2015 @ 6:20 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

Katie loves to bounce in the bounce house…except she wants you to watch her. 🙂 So whenever I walk on the treadmill, she bounces. She’s actually a riot to watch—with jumps and kicks and tossing big soft things around. Tonight she had to run and get her bear so they could jump together.

Afterward, heading upstairs:
Me: Katie, you did awesome in there!
Katie: I know, I had awesome kicks!

Owen is leading us into war.

Posted on November 8, 2015 @ 1:50 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

With a ruler for a sword, of course, because that’s what he picked to bring today. 🙂

And a shot of his new haircut, courtesy of daddy this afternoon.

Today’s views on my hike

Posted on November 5, 2015 @ 2:05 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

The color is getting pretty faded and the leaves are fairly sparse…but it was still pretty.

A walk after a long drive

Posted on November 3, 2015 @ 4:05 pm by Jen — No Comments ↓

After two kinda long days in the car—and a week of no real exercise—we pulled in, unloaded the car, then headed directly to the park for our favorite hike!

Sunday walk with my protector.

Posted on October 18, 2015 @ 9:37 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

It was COLD this morning—in the high 40s, I think—when we set out. We were in multi-layers, Owen had gloves, and we both had our hoods up. 🙂

Today’s weapon was a lightsaber. 🙂

As we were walking along, I was getting the usual commentary about weapons and which bad guys are in the forest and why the minotaurs are no longer there…and then suddenly he stops, turns around, and says “Shhh! We’re in skeleton forest!”

I love this boy. :heart:

I don’t like being reminded thankyouverymuch.

Posted on October 12, 2015 @ 8:15 am by Jen — 3 Comments ↓

I know there are creepy crawlies found in nature…I just don’t want to run across evidence of such things while I’m waking through nature.

/shudder

My protector!

Posted on October 11, 2015 @ 8:35 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

Protecting me from zombies, minotaurs, and poop-ball-throwing purple dragons. 🙂

Welcome to Minotaur Forest!

Posted on September 20, 2015 @ 9:25 am by Jen — No Comments ↓

We were all on our Sunday morning walk and Owen, as usual, talks about his video games the entire way. Stuff about zombies and poison shields and earning gems and potions for magic sticks…and when we got to this point on the trail, it was “WELCOME TO MINOTAUR FOREST!” 🙂

Then as usual we stopped at the bridge to throw over some sticks and stones.

And then we told them this was a zombie house and they should go check for zombies (it’s an old prison building).

We have fun on our walks. 🙂

Sunday morning walk

Posted on September 13, 2015 @ 9:30 am by Jen — 1 Comment ↓

It was just me and Owee this morning. I was feeling good in my new walking outfit—XL pants and XL shirt!!—after hitting 60# this week…that I had Owen take my picture!