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Riding the rails
Last weekend we took a train ride. We missed the first leg of the journey – the train chugged right past us, as we were pulling into the station – but we went up and got our prepaid tickets from the counter anyway, and were told that we could meet up with the train in [...]
continue reading "Riding the rails"Wife of a 45-year-old
Somebody had a birthday around here this week. It wasn’t my birthday, but I got the urge to cut my hair in celebration anyway. Six inches, gone. I also got the urge to treat the birthday boy to a night out. I dropped the kids off at my in-laws’ house, booked us a nice hotel [...]
continue reading "Wife of a 45-year-old"Spontaneity
Who decides at 7pm to take a road trip to the beach for ice cream? We do!! It takes a little over an hour in the car. We park in Ocean Grove, walk down the boardwalk into Asbury Park, choose our flavors, sit on a bench and watch the ocean with our rapidly-melting treats, take [...]
continue reading "Spontaneity"Waiting for the fireworks
If you find yourself faced with a long wait in a crowded park, anticipating Fourth of July fireworks, might I suggest bringing along a diversion like this one? My parents took us all out to their local fireworks on Thursday night, and along with a few bottles of cold water, my mother brought the old [...]
continue reading "Waiting for the fireworks"Small-batch jam-making
We visited the farm today. We saw some chicks, fed some ducks, bought some fruit… You may remember I’ve mentioned in the past that my bread machine has a jam cycle? It makes roughly 2-3 cups of jam per batch, which means that I can keep a little bit for myself in the fridge, and [...]
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