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Wendy Thomas
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Life lessons learned from raising a flock of children and chickens in northern New England.
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Lesson 1451 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 5 (Superheroes and...
Day 5 – North Stratford to North Umberland When you are not in an uncontrolled high level of pain, your body starts to unwind from the tight coiled protective... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1450 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 5 (Canned Beans and...
Day 5 – North Stratford to North Umberland You can tell a lot about an area by the trash (or lack of it) you find on the side of the road. Read more
Posted on 07 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1449 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 5 (Dead Deer and Bacon)
Day 4 – North Stratford to North Umberland Our phone alarms beeped waking us from our deep sleeps. Even though Griffin and I suffered from mild to sometimes... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1448 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 4 Continued (Lodges and...
Day 4 – Colebrook to North Stratford (cont.) The Grand Ole Lodge is a bed and breakfast located about a mile from the center of North Conway. Read more
Posted on 05 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1447 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 4 Continued (Bartonella...
Day 4 – Colebrook to North Stratford (cont.) Even though our packs were lighter, having feet strike pavement (while admittedly carrying a little too much body... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1446 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 4 Continued (Lighter Packs)
Day 4 – Colebrook to North Stratford (cont.) It turned out that the closest restaurant was in the town where we would be spending the night and the closest... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1445 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 4 (3 Hours)
Day 4 – Colebrook to North Stratford Another blister! Poor, poor Griffin. I thought we had done a good job of preventive foot care. Read more
Posted on 30 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1444 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 4 (Encouragement)
Day 4 – Colebrook to North Stratford My phone alarm annoyingly rang waking me up from a dreamless sleep. Within microseconds, Griffin’s phone also began beeping... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1443 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 3 Cont (Need to Have)
Day 3 – Stewartstown to Colebrook cont. What could I possibly do for our waitress? In a case like this, it’s not money or donations that are needed, it’s... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1442 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 3 Cont (Who-ville Unite)
Day 3 – Stewartstown to Colebrook cont. Once our bodies had had enough time to re-hydrate, our waitress came over to talk to us. Read more
Posted on 27 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1441 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 3 Cont (Blisters and Bear)
Day 3 – Stewartstown to Colebrook cont. A blister? My first thought was “what have you done wrong?” Followed, of course by my second thought, which was “what... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1440 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 3 Cont (Water, Water...
Day 3 – Stewartstown to Colebrook cont. Both of us had been warned about protecting our skin using sun screen while on our walk and while we both carried tubes... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1439 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 3 (Show Off)
Day 3 – Stewartstown to Colebrook If you had said to us on the morning of Day 3 that we had to walk the entire length of New Hampshire in the next 13 days,... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1438 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (Zombie Apocalypse)
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I walked (as well as I could) over to the driveway, to the voices in the... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2016 SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1437 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (Wrong Turns and...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. 10 miles may not seem like a lot. But walk them on a hot road, With overloaded, poorly fitting packs, And joints that... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1436 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (Accidents and...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. And then, of course, there was my body. Griffin wasn’t the only one with medical problems. One summer morning, when I was... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1435 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (Lyme Disease...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. Lyme Disease sucks. There’s no other way to say it, constant pain and illness absolutely sucks. Griffin and I had Lyme... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1434 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (Stopping for...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. Pittsburg is a town that goes on forever. And ever. Our second day of walking the state and we still hadn’t even left our... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1433 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 Cont. (A River Runs...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 cont. New Hampshire has water. Lots of it. Running right down our state’s spine is the Connecticut river – the longest river in... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lesson 1432 Border to Border New Hampshire Walk – Day 2 (which is Really Day...
Pittsburg to Stewartstown Day 2 Our phone alarms rang at 6 am. The plan was to get up, eat, pack, and be on the road by 7. After all we had 16. Read more
Posted on 09 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HOME, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION