Y’all. I had big plans this year for nature study. We were going to do Barb’s awesome outdoor hour challenges like I did back when Kathryn was little. We were all going to have nature journals and update them regularly. We’d even incorporate art lessons with our nature journals. It would be Elementary Nature Study […]
island life
How we chose our new town
I’ve long been fascinated with people who picked up their lives and moved somewhere else, especially if it wasn’t for a job but just because. An ironic obsession for a girl who lived 40+ years in the same town and rarely traveled. Much of my fascination was because I didn’t think it was something I’d […]
Volunteering as a sea turtle nest parent
Kathryn and I have now completed our first season of sea turtle nest parenting. If you followed along on instagram, you saw some of the highlights but there’s a lot more to it than what I could post in that square little world. I already shared about how the sea turtle protection program works, but […]
Sea turtle nesting season
It’s sea turtle nesting season here on the North Carolina coast, and for the first time, we are up close and personal to learn all about it! Our town became part of the sea turtle nest monitoring and protection program in 1989. That makes this the 27th year of the program here on our island! […]
Summer plans
It’s officially summer (at least in this hemisphere) and I’ve got big plans! 1- Don’t melt. Always a goal for summer in the South. Although it’s humid as all get-out here, it’s not any worse than back in “Hotlanta” and at least we usually have a bit of a breeze. Still, hot is hot! 2- […]
The 100 Day Project
So there’s this thing on instagram that has, apparently, been around a few years but I must’ve overlooked it. This year, a few of my instagrammy friends are participating and I felt like it was a project I could do to challenge myself a little but wouldn’t be too hard to actually accomplish. The project […]