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A girl wearing a long blue dress walks along a wooden boardwalk winding through trees and shrubs.

we built a boardwalk

Earlier this year I wrote about how much work we were doing on our two acres of land to turn it into a native wildlife habitat.

Unfortunately I haven’t been much help lately, largely due to the infamous back injury, but also due to the fact that I cannot comprehend how Mom and Riley have been working through the hottest, buggiest, most humid days of the year.

I got burnt out doing a lot of deep, grueling poison ivy work early in the year, and I found that I much prefer doing jobs like building stonewalls and building dead hedges.

new magical spot unlocked 🔓✨


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A stream flowing in between snow-covered rocks with the sun shining through the trees,

march wrap

Living in New England, I think that March might be the most dramatic month of the whole year.

On the third of March we went “hiking” and ended up clumsily tripping through three feet of snow, but by the end of the month the ground was clear, and flowers were blooming.

You can watch my 60-second March wrap here!

March 3rd, we definitely underestimated how much snow would still be at our local park; watch my spring vlog here!


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