That time of Year When It's Normal To Ask: What Day is It?

 Happy day after Christmas or Boxing Day to everyone who participates. Looking back, I've always had a fondness for now. The space between Christmas and New Year is still festive, gatherings and cookies are still widely available, and best of all, lots of downtime. 

Today we travel back home from Georgia. We had a good visit with family and our dog tolerated the trip. As far as we can tell, Bowie is very excited to get home since he thought we were going home every time he got in the car during the trip. He refused to get out of the car most of the time when we arrived back at the cabin. 

On Christmas Eve, I got to see my sunset. 

And on Christmas morning, I went for a walk on the hills surrounding our cabin with my daughter. You can't tell in the photo, but it was a steep incline.  She made it to the top of the mountain. I'm happy to report my legs are not super sore today! 

Kicking off 2025, I'm listening to The Beast Take a Bride by Julie Anne Long for book club on January fourth. What are you starting the year reading? 

Buckle Up The first Full Week of School is Here! The Sunday Post for August18th!

 

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Tomorrow after school, me and the hubs are going to take youngest child to her apartment so she can start her junior year of college. I don't think anything is packed as of now. Best of luck to her!  I had oral surgery on Tuesday and I'm spending this weekend recuperating. I made a grocery and Amazon order to supply her, that's an excellent contribution to the cause.

Last week at this time we were hiking up Brasstown Bald, a National Park where you can do a vertical climb to the highest point in Georgia. It was hard, but the view was amazing! 

Wish me luck this week, I'll be meeting the Pre-K kids I'll be working with this year! Fun times, and a very active job,which I am looking forward too. I swear sitting is less comfortable than being up and down all day.  

How was your week? Any back to school activity at your house?

Here is what I'm reading: 

Summer is Speeding Along

From June 15-30 I participated in #1000wordsofsummer and I did it.  I wrote over 15,000 new words in my book.  I am now on Chapter 18 and am right about to the halfway point of the book. If I can keep up practice, I can finish my rough draft before winter.  #1000wordsofsummer was created by writer Jami Attenberg you can click on her link to see her published works and what she has coming out soon!

 Im very glad I participated in the challenge it made a real difference and moved my work forward. Now since July began I've only written 1200 words and it's the 9th.  This I blame on being on vacation.  😁

Our vacation was a long drive 600 mile drive to visit family.  The highlights of the trip were hiking around a lake to see a waterfall at Vogel State Park  and getting to be on Lake Chatuge.  We are very lucky in  that we have a family member who has a family member who has a boat.  Above is my first attempt to use the panoramic feature on my phone to capture the setting sun.  I think turned out pretty well.

On the trail to the waterfall. 

Three generations of the men of my family and the waterfall.

The Man is sporting his Tindr shirt from Gamestop.  Fun Fact: he doesn't swipe left right or up, he doesn't have Tindr! 

It's been wet and warm in Chicagoland so we came home to a garden gone wild- well tomatoes and zucchini gone wild. We should be harvesting in the next couple weeks.  I can't wait for fresh tomatoes! 

READING:

I'm currently reading Crazy Rich Asians.