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2011–The Year of Possible???
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed by email! Thanks for visiting! It took me awhile to come up with my word for the year. 2011 is a year of a fresh, blank book with crisp white pages to be written. The first few chapters have been sketched out, the Florida Trail, but haven’t been written yet. The rest after that are full of possibilities. It’s Misti’s version of Choose Your Own Adventure. Aside: You have to check out my Flickr friend’s Florida panther photos!
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New Years Eve in downtown Ft. Worth
Having grown up in the suburbs of Ft. Worth I am partial to this town versus its neighbor Dallas. I love walking through the streets, checking out the old buildings and when the Tandy Center was still in existence, my friends and I would drive down to the subway that took you to the Tandy Center and we’d go shopping or ice skating and then walk around Main Street or Sundance Square. It’s an easily maneuverable city and in the past several years has seen a revitalization on the west side of the town. I particularly love the arts district on the west side and with the new shopping and…
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The Pink Mustang
Zoe got a car for Christmas from Santa. We hadn’t seen her drive it yet until yesterday and boy was that fun! She has a radio in the car and her dad told her to dance so she sticks her arm out and does a little funk dance! She’s mastered the part of accelerating but hasn’t quite figured out how to steer yet. When we asked her about it last week all she could say was that it “goes real fast!” There were some off-road incidents…. And she certainly takes the no-hands approach to driving. Uncle Chris has to help guide a bit. She’s followed by a chaser vehicle called…
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New Year, New Adventure
Some of you already knew but now we’re letting everyone know. A few weeks ago Chris threw out the idea of hiking the Florida Trail this January and February. We would be done with our job and since we figure we’ll still be working with the company we were working with, their projects don’t start up again until March or April. Yes, yes, we will get ‘real’ jobs again—don’t worry about that. We figured that if we had the time and the money that it probably wouldn’t happen again and we might as well take advantage of it. Don’t worry for my Texas friends—yes, we will be back. We’re starting…
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2010 in Review
In January: I learned how to use the reverse lens technique for taking macro photos—my newest obsession! I finished Ashleigh’s blanket a mere few days before she arrived. And then the little bit was born at 1lb 1oz on January 21st. Photo from my brother and SIL. It seems like so long ago but yesterday, too. We took our final trip to Dinner Island WMA with Kathy and Randy. In February: We took our last trip to Fakahatchee Strand to see the Cranichis mucosa orchid way out in the boonies of the park. We went to see the ghost orchids for the last time in Little Slough. We left Florida…
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Book Review and a Cold
Patrice had sent me the Barefoot Sisters Southbound and the companion book Barefoot Sisters Walking Home. They were pretty easy reads once I got going and despite her recommendation to read the northbound first, I decided to go southbound since it was their first book and because that part of the trail was still fresh in my mind. Lucy and Susan Letcher, Isis and jackrabbit respectively on the Trail, are sisters who set off southbound in Maine on summer solstice in 2000. From the start you could tell that this was going to be a drama filled adventure and they were definitely hiking their own hike. Sometimes I wanted to…
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Trail Tales 18: Maine Part II, Stratton to Millinocket
Relevant posts: Almost There The Greatest Mountain After leaving Merf behind at Stratton we mosied on our way for the Bigelow Range. We stopped for lunch at the Cranberry Stream campground for lunch and privy before heading up. A parking lot is located pretty near the campsite and some day hikers had come by. One of them ended up talking on the phone and was hiking pretty close to us. It is one thing to use a phone in relative privacy away from a campsite, but to be hiking and talking on the phone??? Really? Chris turned around after awhile and told the guy off and eventually the guy fell…
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Snippets of Christmas
Chris and I had four Christmas meals, his mom and step-dad, his dad and step-mom, my parents, and my SIL’s mom and dad’s house. *phew* that was a lot of food! I think I managed not to overeat, though and I did steer clear from some heavy desserts. We did pretty good on presents, too; I think the best ones were ones that I wasn’t supposed to get. Chris and I had a no-present clause this year but somehow I ended up with Chanel No. 5 and some diamond stud earrings! The other good things were a Kitchenaide mixer and a Sonicare toothbrush! Here are some snippets…and I’m bummed about…
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Misti’s Christmas Top 10
Top 10 Christmas Movies: A Christmas Story: my all time favorite Christmas movie…24 hours of it on TNT is perfect! It’s a Wonderful Life: preferably in black and white Bridget Jones’ Diary: a turkey-curry buffet…need I say more? “The gravy needs sieving!” “Oh, just stir it, Una!” Love Actually: so much love in this movie and so much hope…the multiple love stories are awesome. Miracle on 34th Street: the black and white version of course! National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: just too funny and full of hilarity! The Christmas Child: it has my favorite Anne of Green Gables actress, Megan Follows, which says the most of why it is on this…
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A Retro Christmas
Since I am at home this year I went back and picked out some fun past-Christmas photos from growing up. Here’s what I found: A very young mom with a little kid! Santa Claus, aka: Uncle Gary! I knew it was him! Barbie Ferrari! SWEET! I loved this thing. I wonder if it is in the attic still? I noticed that a lot of our photos involved us holding up the things we got. This actually could be Thanksgiving one year, but it was with Christmas photos. My grandad and uncle with mom, curt and me. Rollerskates! Once I got rollerblades, though, I never went back. I always fell on…