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Tag Archives: Parenting
Broke toe on the Buffalo
It started about three years ago. One of the summers where I get together with my parents and my sister, her kids and mine, our long-suffering spouses. The yearly family week at Lake Chicot. My nephew must’ve been about fourteen, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkansas, Buffalo River, Fatherhood, Nature, Parenting, TripReport
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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 3)
<– part 2 Woke up on Sunday morning around six to the sound of blackbirds. I heard the nylon shushing sound of Squirrel shuffling awake. He said something derogatory about birds and I unzipped the hammock. While he was sitting … Continue reading
Posted in Backpacking, Backpacking with Kids, Mt. Magazine State Park, Nature
Tagged Arkansas, Backpacking, Fatherhood, Hiking, Nature, Parenting, TripReport
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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 2)
<– (part 1) Easing into the overflow primitive campsites on Saturday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice the motley array taking up the far south end of the area. A huge transport van hauling a trailer. An old Ranger with … Continue reading
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Tagged Backpacking, Hiking, Nature, Parenting, TripReport
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Squirrel on Mt. Magazine (part 1)
Thursday, driving Squirrel to school, he laid his criteria down upon me. When I pitched the initial idea of a daddy-date, I really was thinking I’d be on the hook for some animatronic pizza and maybe seeing a new Marvel … Continue reading
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Tagged Backpacking, Hiking, Kid Hikes, Nature, Parenting, Spring, TripReport
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Paternal Epiphany
My greatest paternal epiphany to date begins, not unusually, with Kat. He’s been putzing out on me lately. After two weeks of frigid monsoon April mayhem, May finally arrived like your first sane adult girlfriend and the weekend was going … Continue reading
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Tagged Backpacking, Hiking, Nature, Parenting, TripReport
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April showers bring mid-life crises
In between rain storms, as the clouds part enough to work in the yard, I’ve been putting the last few infrastructure touches on my garden. Some of the seeds I put in the greenhouse last month have sprouted now, others … Continue reading
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Tagged Fitness, Gardening, mountain biking, Parenting, prepper, Spring, Suburban Homesteading
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2015 – Bear Bait & Squirrel make a resolution
Isn’t even New Years yet, but this is worth blogging about. I’ve written over the past few years about me ‘n the boys. Momma for the most part has been content to let us go do our wilderness thing. But … Continue reading
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Tagged ArkansasTrails, Backpacking, Hiking, Kid Hikes, Parenting
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Running?
Bear Bait,now a 4th Grader, told me back in March that he’d like to join the school’s running club. Twice a week, for about an hour after school, somewhere near 150 or so kids would meet at the track by … Continue reading
Learning from tragedy
Around mid-January, a news story caught my attention. A dad and his two sons, out on the Ozark Trail in Missouri. Just a day hike, on a day that started out in the 60’s. Rain comes in, gets colder. Dark … Continue reading
“. . it’s a wonder I can think at all.”
I have some leave coming up that I have to take, about three days. The last three of the week. February is one of my favorite times to hike and we’ve had such mild weather lately that it has been … Continue reading