Dirt in your skirt blog

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Posted on October 31, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Today I went for a swim, around in circles but a swim. I ventured alone to the pool, a task I actually dread as I know that when I go to the pool alone its extra hard to motivate to get the swim in and I admit today......
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Posted on October 30, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
No I didn’t trek off into the woods and meet a bear today. The only bear around me was the one in the gym, namely Bear Complex. I had planned on doing a lift today and after much thought decided to try out Bear Complex. The one Katy McCabe had......
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Posted on October 29, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
The theme of this week truly has been revisiting the old. I have revisited old trails I use to hike over a year ago and tried to reconnect to the fun of it all. In many ways it’s been a walk down memory lane. I spent so much time this......
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Posted on October 29, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Morning View from the House on the Hill “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ......
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Posted on October 28, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.“John Muir   Even though I live......