Susan Byers
Well ...
It’s over. That terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year is history, Alexander. A new year has dawned. Hope for a better future grows....
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Susan Byers
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
Lemonade
It has been a month. Our campground is a 30 minute drive from our house, and every day since we closed, we drove to and from the camper,...
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Susan Byers
- Sep 18, 2020
- 4 min
Endings & Beginnings
Fall is finally coming to Upstate New York. A couple of nights ago, the temperatures finally dipped into the 40s. We awoke to thick fog...
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Susan Byers
- Aug 6, 2020
- 5 min
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Greetings from the beautiful Berkshires in western Massachusetts. We are ensconced at Peppermint Park, half an hour from civilization...
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Susan Byers
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
Pastorale
pas·to·rale/ˌpastəˈräl,ˌpastəˈral/ noun noun: pastorale; plural noun: pastorales; plural noun: pastorali MUSIC a slow instrumental...
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Susan Byers
- May 1, 2020
- 4 min
Marking and Making
As you know, we are hunkering, waiting out the virus, a few miles outside Floyd, Virginia. We will be in this campground until mid-June,...
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Susan Byers
- Apr 13, 2020
- 4 min
Silver Linings
EASTER SUNDAY, HARRISONBURG, VA "It never rains, but it pours." Yes, another of my mother's oft-used expressions, but like most clichés,...
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Susan Byers
- Apr 10, 2020
- 5 min
Think of a Cow in a Green Pasture
Thursday, April 10 "Think of a cow in a green pasture," my mother would always say when we were stressed. Today, her words came back to...
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Susan Byers
- Mar 20, 2020
- 3 min
Hunkering
Wow, how life has changed. A couple of weeks ago, we came back to the DC area so I could have shoulder replacement surgery. My sister...
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Susan Byers
- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min
Ruminations on a Winter Landscape
As we drove north toward Philadelphia the other day, descending out of the Virginia highlands, I found myself thinking about the beauty...
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Susan Byers
- Feb 27, 2020
- 3 min
Magnolia!
Our second stop in Texas was Waco, to visit The Silos, the downtown multi-use destination owned by Chip and Joanna Gaines and made famous...
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Susan Byers
- Feb 23, 2020
- 4 min
But Wait, There's More!
How could I have left Austin and not talked about two of the most remarkable places we visited?! Goodness ... Well, before we head to...
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Susan Byers
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
Deep in the Heart of ... You Guessed It!
We just finished a whirlwind tour of Austin, Waco and Grapevine, Texas, just outside Dallas. Stops in Austin and Dallas were primarily to...
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Susan Byers
- Feb 1, 2020
- 6 min
N'Awlins, Y'all!
There is much to love about New Orleans. There is the juxtaposition of old and new, antique iron lace, stucco and brick against a...
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Susan Byers
- Jan 17, 2020
- 4 min
Hot Hot Hot
After four days of driving (we try to limit drive time to four hours a day out of deference to the cats and old joints), we are in...
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Susan Byers
- Dec 30, 2019
- 5 min
Sometimes, You Have to Get Creative ...
"But where will the kids come for Christmas?" my sister asked me. We were still working toward moving into the camper full time, and we...
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Susan Byers
- Dec 10, 2019
- 2 min
Diary of a Rainy Day
Why does it always feel colder when it rains? We woke up to a hovering gray sky, and shortly after we walked the dogs, it started to...
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Susan Byers
- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min
Insanity
Before our house of 25 years ever made it to market, we had an offer from a young Air Force officer and his wife (we're calling them Jack...
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Susan Byers
- Oct 28, 2019
- 4 min
Gift Horse
I have sadly neglected this blog for the last year, while we worked on the camper and the house and moving our lives into storage and oh...
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Susan Byers
- Apr 24, 2019
- 3 min
Disappearing Act
I know. I disappeared. For almost a year. But when the contractor shows up and you are desperately trying to stay one step ahead of...
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