Dirt in your skirt blog

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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......
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Posted on October 26, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Photo by Ali Kaukas It’s Wednesday, which means its my weekly meeting with my trainer. Steve never one to disappoint came up with another gem of a workout today. The key I have learned to Steve’s workouts are layering. He takes lots of different tasks which in and of themselves......
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Posted on October 26, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
Remember this pond? Time, the illusive thing just when I think I have enough of it for everything a meeting goes late, a phone call comes in and next thing you know my work day tips over the twelve hour mark. I find myself making dinner and going directly to......
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Posted on October 24, 2011 by Margaret Schlachter
We have officially entered twig season in Vermont, the time between foliage and the first snowfall. It is the time in the middle where winter looms before us, yet we still cling to the last vestiges of fall the same as the last leaves cling on the trees to the......