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Two Bits : Podcast Love
Sarah’s podcast recommendations here.
Popping in to make your mornings a little bit sweeter. Do you remember The Writer’s Almanac? It used to play in the mornings on a number of NPR stations, but sadly isn’t on the radio anymore. Well, it’s back! At least in podcast form.
It’s just a quick five minutes from Garrison Keillor. Each episode contains a little bit of history, a list of people celebrating birthdays on that day, and then it ends with a poem. Really, the perfect way to start (or end) the day.
If you don’t subscribe to podcasts, you can find The Writer’s Almanac here along with an archive of past episodes.
Happy weekend <3
The Ultimate Car Camping Music Festival Packing List
Happy Wednesday! I’m so amped up this morning because I just worked a ton of hours over the past few days and now I get to look forward to a music festival this weekend! On Friday, I am headed to Shakori Hills. It’s a grassroots music, dance, and yoga festival held in the woods here in North Carolina. It’s a car camping festival in the sense that you get to drive relatively close to the campground, but you eventually have to park and hike all your gear into the forest and find your own campsite. Nothing is designated for you. How cool, right?
Our Live Seasoned theme this month is travel so while I was sitting here typing out a list for myself and my friends, I realized this could be helpful for other summer festy goers. Here is my ultimate car camping festival packing list. I feel this list is a fair mix of basic and over the top. For instance, cooking. It’s really not necessary to go all out, but there something about cooking at camp that makes my heart happy, so I take a lot in that department. If there is anything you deem essential that’s not on this list, let me know!
An Interview with the Beekeeper
Honey is our ingredient of the season. You can find our archive of honey posts here.
You’ve likely heard us mention our brother’s hives before. He keeps them on the roof of the garage at the old farm where we grew up. The honey that comes from the hives has been dubbed Garage Top Honey, and it has supplied most of our honey needs for this season’s posts. Thanks, Sven! Continue reading
Ouzel Falls Hike
We like a good hike, and every once in a while we have the chance to hike slow, take pictures, and share the adventure with you. You can check out some of our previous Colorado hikes here.
Come along for a view of the Ouzel Falls trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. As in the tradition of our previous hike posts, I wanted to share some photos and a brief overview of the trail. Continue reading
Edible Flowers Round-up
It’s flower season!
Edible flowers are such a beautiful and tasty ingredient. Below is a roundup of past posts that highlighted the use of flowers in the kitchen.
Chive Blossom Fritters (look at that bee bum!)
Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Icing & Rose Petals
Ingredient of the Season : Honey!
The story of our lives: there are never enough hours in a day or enough days in a season.
We particularly feel the crunch when it’s time to introduce a new Ingredient of the Season. Here it is, time for summer’s ingredient, and I am definitely no where near finished with eggs. All that’s to say, expect a spattering of egg posts from now until forever (… when we actually find the time to slow down and write them).
But on with the show: This summer our focus will be on honey! Continue reading
FriendRaising – Start a Facebook Group
Since the start of the year, we’ve been focusing on monthly initiatives. A theme that sets the stage for some of the posts we’ll be sharing throughout the month. In January, we focused on good habits. During February we kept those good habits going with a particular focus on taking care of our mental health. This month, we mentioned in the Monthly Welcome that we want to put the focus on relationships, and in particular, to something called “friendraising” like fundraising, but with friends, ya dig it?
The communities we love to insert ourselves into are usually built around shared interests: cooking, hiking, parents, etc. Normally we find out about these groups through friends, community calendars, our city’s free weekly paper, or the internet, and sometimes we start our own groups.
Sarah started this series by discussing how and why to start a meetup group and do a little friendraising for yourself. Today’s post is very similar in nature. I want to talk about starting a Facebook group. BUT as you’ll see, my group is NOT about hosting events…
Getting Outside : Set a Park Goal
Unless you’re hiding under a rock, you’ve likely seen the headlines and reports that getting outside and into nature is good for us… and if you’re under a rock, then getting outside is the least of your problems.
This past fall, we did a mini-series sharing ideas, big and small, for getting outside. Our first post shared a few ideas for getting outside at every energy and adventure level. Sarah followed-up with suggestions for week-day doses of outside time. We also wrote another post that suggested taking advantage of the awesome national and state park programs.
Today we’re encouraging you to create your own park adventure…
Read With Me : Deep Down Dark
In 2018, we started a series called ‘Read With Me’ where we are sharing all most of what we’ve read each month in hopes you’ll follow suit and dust off that book you’ve been meaning to devour! Here are all the previous Read With Me posts.
