Tag: mountains
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The High Desert (Week 8)
Is there anything worse than the smell of burnt popcorn? Not only does it smell bad, IT LINGERS. It seems to permeate the curtains, furniture, and walls. I have tried opening the windows and the use of air freshener and candles, but here I am a week later and still smelling it. I digress. I […]
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The High Desert (Week 5)
How beautiful is this double rainbow? This was a view from my camper this week. I had to capture it in a photograph, but the picture really doesn’t do it justice. It was amazing. I lost one of my diamond earrings in the camper this week (boo!). It was one of the earrings that my […]
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Week 13 (Leaving the mountains)
We have hiked around 500 total miles here by my estimate (more than the amount of miles that I put on my car for this assignment). Funny story, the shoes that I have worn to hike all those miles actually belonged to my daughter. They are just a regular pair of athletic shoes. She left […]
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Week 10 (Somewhere in the mountains)
Oh, the excessive secretions! With the nasal, tracheal, and bronchial mucus, I feel like I am drowning. It has sleeted and snowed this week so it is incredibly difficult to imagine it is related to allergies, but I get pollen alerts every day. I need to evaluate it further to see exactly what the trigger […]
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Week 9 (Somewhere in the mountains)
I have a washer/dryer combo now! No more laundry mat. I feel like I am living the life of luxury. I am very much like my Granny. She always had a load of laundry going. My Grandaddy would tease her and say that when she walked through the front door, she would run straight to […]
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Week 7 (Somewhere in the mountains)
Pearl is sitting beside me as I write this. She will be gone tomorrow morning and so will my husband. Back to Texas again. I don’t have words to describe the feeling of loss. I always begin feeling that sense of loss the moment that they arrive for a visit. Maybe someone else can relate. […]
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Week 6 (Somewhere in the mountains)
One of the reasons that I was brought here was to change the culture. I absolutely love leadership and developing employees/teams. I enjoy investing in each person and motivating them to reach their full potential. Learning each individual on a team is imperative to building a strong movement and to fulfill the mission at hand. […]
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The power of hope (Wookie part 2)
I received the most wonderful news this week. Wookie gets to come to work with me! He now has a bed in my office again, but this time is a little different… My previous roles were corporate (one was onsite and the other was remote). So, I have only seen him interact in that type […]
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Week 4 (Somewhere in the mountains)
It snowed 5 inches on Friday. Beautiful snow, not like the type we get in Texas that melts and turns into mud. Here it just evaporates, leaving no trace behind. We have began to locate new services here to replace the ones at home. Now that Wookie has a new groomer and I have a […]