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Scrapbooking skills for the minimalist
What scrapbooking skills are helpful to the minimalist? If you’re a scrapbooker, you may be looking at your craft room and wondering how in the heck anyone could be both. Or, you may be looking at the little box of stuff that you spread out over the dining table when it’s crafting time, and wishing you had that craft room. Once you get started in scrapbooking, the tools take over the storage space. The supplies
My RV Wants – 2017 Update
Back in March of 2016, I wrote this post about what we thought we wanted in an RV. A year later, how does that hold-up? RV wants that we kept I still like most of our old list. We (okay – I) don’t want appliances in any slides Composting toilet – we’ll modify our full-time rig if we have to, but that stays on the list Solar – definitely still on our list Day/night shades –
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Huntsville State Park – our first RV trip
This is the third in a short series about buying our first RV and taking our first RV trip. Our last post ended where we got hitched-up and ready to pull out of our driveway (we live in the country – no HOA to complain about a trailer on the property). Getting to the campsite Before we pulled-out, we checked the tire pressure and noticed that the right trailer tire was low. No big deal,
If I could go back to New Mexico…
Between work and finances (and the weather, see: work), this is going to be a summer spent close to home. Last summer, though, we spent two weeks in New Mexico. There were a couple of things I wish we’d done differently. If you’re planning to travel to New Mexico, maybe my regrets will help you have a better trip. I wish we’d taken longer to acclimate. The day we got there, we hiked the rim
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If I could go back to New Mexico…
Between work and finances (and the weather, see: work), this is going to be a summer spent close to home. Last summer, though, we spent two weeks in New Mexico. There were a couple of things I wish we’d done differently. If you’re planning to travel to New Mexico, maybe my regrets will help you have a better trip. I wish we’d taken longer to acclimate. The day we got there, we hiked the rim
San Antonio Missions – Living History
Spanish missionaries arrived in Texas before most Europeans. They found a native population to whom they felt the need to deliver the word of God. Across the western half of the United States, they built their missions, some of which survive to the present day. As a descendant of northern Europeans whose ancestors arrived in Texas just prior to the Revolution, I tend to think of these churches as places of historical interest. A visit