abby vanduker, 20, oklahoma

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charity: water
liberty in north korea

et soudain, j’ai besoin d’eau. peut-être j’irai nager après mon examen demain.

Hiked for a bit this-afternoon. The weather through the days has been near perfect for northern Colorado in late October; reaching the mid-fifties and not too terrible windy aside from the occasional heavy gust down the mountain.

Great Grandma and I drove up from Greeley on Saturday morning after stopping in at Vern’s for my usual French toast, and my throat is finally healing. I wish I could afford to take a week off to fly up here every time I get another round of tonsillitis which is far too common anyhow.

Life up here is so terribly simple. Wake up early, put wood on the fire and pour a cup of coffee, step outside in the biting morning air to watch the deer and have a smoke, cook breakfast, snuggle up by the fire with a book (The Shining for me), have lunch at noon, spend the afternoon hiking or off-roading or picking up groceries at the local supermarket or splitting wood or shooting BBs (I put some in a can from 50m today!), cook and eat dinner with the family, wind down with another cup of coffee, maybe a glass of wine or beer and watching ball games on television, and slip under a heated blanket for sleep. and I love it, I couldn’t possibly imagine a better escape from the rest of the world.

xxxx

battleground, washington.
april 2011. 

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meganmcisaac / by: meganmcisaac

want.

dwellings / by: snowpics

Hi, Eddie.

I needed today so badly: wonderful weather (I took advantage of this to wear shorts for the first time in months). a real hour’s nap. t-bell picnic by the lake. a fellow canon shooter. a grape swisher. dinner with my family. editing.

The simple things.

I’m keeping this short so I can tell my mac good-night and hopefully be just as lucky as I was with my nap this-afternoon as I need sleep. I need sleep, desperately- I can feel myself starting to fray at the edges and get truly worn down. I just don’t know what to do anymore, I’m so awful at sleeping.

So, good-night. See you on the flipside, Andrew McMahon and Kansas City.