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  1. Yesterday I did a 4 mile summit with a lot of walking on glare ice. Dh gave me a pair of spikes for my birthday which I love, they make it so easy to travel on ice. No snowy owls. It's time to tap trees, though.
  2. I did a rainy 4 mile walk and ate a lot of icicles along the way. Also a 20 minute arms video with my heavier weights and was happily feeling stronger.
  3. Wood, I prefer the way the knife ends the cut on wood. I like how they look. I'm in need of a new one now, thanks for the nudge! I've read different things about wood vs plastic for harboring bacteria, but ultimately that argument comes down to user behavior: vigilant washing and making sure there's no cross-contamination. I have one that's just for fruit and nuts so my garlic and onions don't make their way into sweets.
  4. OK, my mental image of your username is now undergoing a lot of reconstruction. You, in a bikini and smartwool socks? Merino base layer and a sundress? I'm having cognitive dissonance! @Laura CorinI am green with envy right now. If I could teleport anywhere and drop in for a few weeks, it would be that street. I got in one whole lap of skating on the lake yesterday, lol, and blew off my arms video due to being sore from the day before. Today I feel good but it's pouring rain - I will still do some arms plus a walk in the rain with my hiking bestie who's back for a few weeks.
  5. Yesterday I helped a friend scrubbing boards that were caked on with 100+ years of barn debris instead of doing any other arms workout, and today I can really feel it. Will walk or skate today.
  6. I'm so sorry, and I so appreciate your honesty. I agree with other posters that you deserve to be seen by a health care professional, your children will benefit too. It really sounds like you are in a crisis, not an almost-crisis, but with the amount of mothering you've done and are still doing, you might tend to minimize. Hugs and peaceful thoughts to you, Eos
  7. I've been thinking about these all day, might be ready to answer. I love the "Jack" podcast about Jack Smith. Favorite book: Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild Favorite purchase: I had some great barters last year, including time for two different friends at my business in exchange for dd19's beautiful watercolored diploma and some meadow plants for this year's garden. Best life hack: paying someone to watch over my mom. Biggest financial regret: not requiring dh and ds to take a truck they wanted to buy for ds to a mechanic. They got it home from buying it 2 hours away and took it to a mechanic down here who told them it was unfixable. It's still in the yard. What did I do to make my life easier this year: didn't work this winter High point of last year: our Smithsonian/DC trip with three of the kids. The best of times!
  8. Also thank you for this. You are a wise person.
  9. Thank you, I just had this thought before reading your post and it's very helpful.
  10. I'll start. Mine: I took three young kids to Italy for 7 weeks and felt sad when my husband visited. Mine lasted about 4 years. Dh bought a tractor.
  11. Have you or a loved one gone through a midlife crisis? I'm trying to avoid the phrase as a joke or meme or a dismissive put-down. What did it look like? How long did it last? What helped move it along, besides tincture of time? Thank you.
  12. Again, please don't quote, thank you. It's been a roller-coaster. In three weeks they've gone up and down three times. Ds has begun personal therapy, for which I'm glad. This morning I had a very long call with ds, who sounded completely normal - sad and frustrated but normal. Ddil called me later in the morning. I listened to her but told her I needed to be supporting ds, and that I would think about what she said. I said a lot of "I'm so sorry, it's so hard for both of you" and other neutral phrases. I felt good about laying down a boundary but also being compassionate. She's miserable but I'm not going to analyze or even discuss ds's feelings with her. OK, here's my concern. Ddil told me she's worried about ds. I think she was implying mental illness. And I knew what she meant - in the last 6 months he's changed his look, bought a motorcycle, and now seems to be heading toward divorce. I believe this fits perfectly with what is dismissively called "mid-life crisis." There's quite a bit of writing about it online, enough that it seems like a genuine set of symptoms. When he first told me about their issues, I did worry. They hadn't come up for New Year's which is unusual, and he hadn't asked us what we wanted for Christmas which was also kinda weird. I know he's unhappy and possibly depressed, which is very different from his usual happy-go-lucky self. Should I be worried about mental illness beyond depression? Or does this seem "normal" for a 34 year old man who is finally coming to terms with the fact that he's done a huge amount of emotional and physical caretaking in his marriage and might be done? How would I know? She's in the throes of grief, and while it may seem like mental illness to her, to him it's been building for a while and he's feeling new relief from allowing his feelings to come out. I might start a spin off about midlife crisis. I fear it's a term that is used as a joke or a meme, downplaying a real issue.
  13. Yesterday was a beautiful and cold walk, would have been about 8 miles but I ended up bushwacking part of it for fun down a gorgeous stream bed that cut about a mile off.
  14. Happy that I did all of my goals last week. I'm just gonna say this out loud: after spending three years griping and fretting about my upcoming retirement from homeschooling.... I'm productive after all. I definitely don't have a new "career" or even a plan but I'm getting to stuff that I've either been putting off or didn't have the bandwidth for to really dig into and it feels good. Some of you might remember my "how do you get things done" thread that was homeschooling-me trying to plan for my new schedule like I used to plan for a new school year. As it turns out, my personal MO is to hyper-focus on one meaningful project at a time. Of course there are side things that have to happen, but it feels great to finally acknowledge that this is just how I roll. No need for a creativity schedule when I will spend most waking hours working on one project. This week: keep working on the grime and cat hair wiping plus scrub the kitchen floor. Receive some new magic sculpt and finish the backgrounds of my plaques. Order some new letters. Start a chess set for my sister.
  15. Yesterday I bought some slightly heavier weights at goodwill (5 pounds instead of my 3) and did a half hour video with them, it still felt easy. I'll be on the lookout for heavier ones. Today I'm heading out for an 8 mile walk, carrying weights in my backpack.
  16. I see where you're going with this haunted house!
  17. One of mine did a really effective timeline of African American history as laminated index cards on a large metal key ring. She color coded the borders by era and events.
  18. I did a pretty 3 miles over snow yesterday in the late afternoon, loved the pink and soft blue-gray of approaching sunset. Also an arms workout with fitbymyk. I think I'm ready for heavier weights!
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    A late Valentine for my birders:
  20. Yes, they're generally themed and some sound quite cool but my teacher friends see them as problematic in terms of taking funding away. Maybe they don't see homeschoolers that way because we were never there to begin with, if that makes sense. https://www.maine.gov/csc/schools Off-topic for out-of-staters: Maine also has a 200 year old "academy" tradition, North Yarmouth Academy is one of them. Some are local public high schools, some are magnet schools by application and paid for by the sending community or parents, some are boarding schools https://maineanencyclopedia.com/academies/
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