Side Trips

Monthly diversions that didn’t make the front page

Bob’s Week in Cologne

Bob flies to Cologne, Germany to attend classes in ISCC (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) for his new career in auditing – October 7 – 14, 2018   GETTING THERE    Planes and trains, but no automobiles.   GETTING AROUND    Bob booked a room at the hotel where he would be taking classes and walked

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Safari at the NC Zoo

Camille and Judy are at it again. When they went zooing last year they soaked in the North American exhibits and have returned to gape at the African animals on the other side of the highly-rated North Carolina Zoo – October 18, 2018   PLAYING AROUND   Once inside the gate, we indulged in a

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Moving Cookie’s Parents

In which Camille helps her brothers move their mother’s stuff from her apartment into her new home – September 17-23   SORTING IT OUT    Brother Michael goes through mail on the card table that has served as his parent’s dining room table for ten years, while brother John sorts through the kitchen, both doing

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New Jersey

Two nights at the lake house, a birthday well celebrated, dinner out, day tripping on the Jersey shore, and three childhood homes revisited – June 4-6, 2018   CAMILLE’s 64TH Celebrated in high fashion by Kathryn and James, with cake, candles, ice cream, flowers, gifts, and cards. Yeah man! They will still need you and feed

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Pennsylvania

Visiting Mom, picnicking with brothers, hiking the woods, and dinner with the gang – June 8 & 9, 2018   MOM AT 85 Brother James took this photo of Mom outside Shippensburg Health Care Center. She has lost a lot of weight and is too weak to walk, but loves her wheelchair and keeps her

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Peonies and Roses

Perennial magic brought to us by warm weather and plentiful rain – May 2-12, 2018   FRESH ENOUGH TO SLAP    Our first Fragrant Cloud of the season, captured in pixels by Tami. And Festiva Maxima, a peony showing gratitude for its new home beside its brothers and sisters. In 2010 we bought five peony

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Spring Shakori 2018

Music and friends at Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance – Saturday, May 5, 2018   WE COME FOR THE MUSIC    Rising Appalachia is one of fifty bands that performed at this year’s spring music festival. If you have not heard their music, you are in for a treat!     AND

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Trail Crawl 2018

A delightful spring tradition carries the neighborhood into another season of fun and friendship – March 18, 2018     FIRST STOP: TROUTS FARM    If you feed them they will come. Camille puts out some breakfasty food, Bob mans the bloody Mary/mimosa/juice bar, and the neighbors begin arriving. Here comes Doug and Buffy!  

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January Storms

We’re not used to getting two snowstorms in one month, and the second one dumped up to a foot of snow in our county. These photos are from January 4, 7, and 17   FIRST SNOW OF WINTER    We thought this one was a doozy. Little did we know.   PRETTY PINE AND PAMPASS

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