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130 Miles

August 25, 2013 Marie Leave a Comment

Today we took the bike 2-up (that means I was on the back rather than us each riding our own motorcycles). We’ve never done it before but a trip around the town proved to be quite easy, so we went out for a long ride. We wanted to ride up to Lake Erie, but we got about halfway there and decided to go a different direction.

Google Maps tells me that we went about 130 miles. However, my butt says otherwise! Good grief I was uncomfortable back there. And, even worse, bored. I’m not sure if it’s just because the roads we took were flat and boring or if it’s just because I enjoy riding my own bike more than being a passenger. Regardless, I was ready to go home pretty much immediately after we stopped to get lunch. Except we mistakenly misread the directions and ended up going a full extra hour longer than we needed to to get home. Bleh.

I have dreams of taking long road trips across the US, but I think for now I need to work on riding around Ohio to build my endurance up! And save some money for a fancy comfortable seat to replace the one that came with the bike!

Fair Day

July 2, 2013 Marie Leave a Comment

Fair week. The one time a year I get my farm animal fix. The bunnies, the chickens, the sheep and goats and cows… the goats and the bunnies are my favorite. The goats this year were so very sweet. I spent a fair amount of time just petting them (whereas the sheep weren’t very social and didn’t want anything to do with me) and one of the 4-H kids gave me handful of feed so I could feed one of them ♥♥♥

DPP #7: More Zoo Lights

December 8, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Getting behind on this photo thing, but will try to catch up and take a photo to post from today for today (especially since I’m having a craft day with my lovely friend Kate! Also, kitties!)

DPP #6: Zoo Lights

December 7, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

I have a bunch of photos to go through this weekend from the visit, but here’s what I instagtam’d. It almost looks like a painting!

Little cabin in the woods

November 5, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

2nd annual weekend with my knitting girls. A cute little cabin in the woods with some really amazing people that I’m lucky enough to call my friends. Lots of delicious food, knitting, laughing, movies, and overall just plain relaxing. I even purchased some ruffle yarn at Walmart on a food run and knocked out a scarf Saturday night (and while I’m not a huge fan of novelty yarns I do quite like the look of it, and you can’t beat how fast it knit up).

A previous guest at the cabin had started a treasure hunt, leaving a clue at the end of their guestbook entry and then, subsequently, 2 more clues that leads to the ‘treasure’ (a little bag of found stones from one of the local gem mine touristy place for kids). Each guest has since found and re-hid the treasure, leaving their own clues to its location. Not ones to break the tradition, we followed along and re-hid the treasure with our own clues and I whipped up a quick little knit sock out of some leftover yarn to contribute our own little treasure.