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Life After Amazon & Target: How to Boycott
The thing to know about me is: I’m a petty bitch. I will boycott a company or organization at the drop of a MAGA hat. I will slam my wallet shut at the mere sniff of a policy I don’t like. Boycotts have been my preferred method of protest for ages. Not because I think…
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How is the Year Almost Over? (Welcome to Nothing Week)
Well, hellloooo. And welcome to my favorite week of the year – the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. That weird in-between time/no-time where no one is working or doing anything productive. We’re all just lying around, embracing full decay mode. Just like all the memes on social media have suggested. We’ve certainly been…
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How Is Summer Almost Over?
Whelp, it’s finally here. Sheryll’s Solo Summer (SSS) is coming to an end next week, as my schmoopies-for-life comes back from his sabbatical taking care of his father. It truly has been a long three months. And a lot of physical and emotional work for my beloved XFE in the midst of an unprecedented heat…
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Lessons in Living from ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning’
Last week kind of got away from me. It was eventful. Our cats chased a mouse from the screened in porch (we have a crack under the door) and into the house during the final Vanderpump Rules Reunion episode. This has happened once or twice before, and usually, my live-in mouse remover/exterminator XFE takes charge…
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Life and Mountain Laurel in West Virginia
Whew. It’s been a long-ass six (or seven?) months since my last post. Not like a whole second global pandemic long, but not too far off the mark. For the last – gosh, I want to say, for 10(!?) months — my lovable and wonderful non-husband, XFE has been dealing with aging family members’ health…
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Can’t We Just Stay in Our Bubble?
It’s official – COVID lockdown has ended. I know this because I’m pretty sure we were the last holdouts and we have finally loosened up our protocols. We are no longer sheltering in place, just the two of us and the cats. We’ve slowly peeked our heads out of our collective shells and gradually started…
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West Virginia Trips: Hatfield & McCoy Trails
Even though my non-husband XFE and I are fully vaccinated, we have still held off on traveling. Which, if you’ve read this blog before, you know it’s a big, big change for us. And, as the COVID breakthrough cases went up over the summer, and news of ICUs being full and hospitals overwhelmed, we wanted…
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What is the Deal with Toilets: A Reluctant Buyer’s Guide
Over the past year at the corona cabin, we’ve been making quite a few updates and changes to our little chocolate box. We gave the front porch a refresh, replacing the old-fashioned wood balusters with a cool wire system and painting the door and railings black. We swapped in new appliances throughout the house, including…
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Lot’s to Love About Lost River
We appear to have won the battle of the carpenter bees and are now settling into full spring at the cabin. Which, while carpenter bee-free, is not at all bug free. In fact, it is very, very buggy. But that’s what you get when you plunk a cabin in the middle of five acres of…
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A Few Lessons From Living in the Country
There are a few things no one tells you about living in the country If you live at the top of a mountain—even a small one—it will be very, very windy a lot of the time. Get used to the sounds of gunfire. Even if it’s not hunting season. At first I thought there must…