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   This year, I finally got Dan hooked on audiobooks for our road trips.  They really make two hour car rides go by SO much faster!    We don't always love them.  I think we tried 3 or 4 just in the past week that we couldn't get through the sample without yawning.  There are a couple where I thought I would enjoy reading the book, but the audiobook was just too dry to listen to.   These are audiobooks we truly loved: The Martian This was truly fantastic.  I chose it because it was on the Great American Read list, and I thought Dan might enjoy it.  I really didn't expect to love it myself.  I was wrong.  I loved it. Dan later rented the movie and watched it while I was out one night.  He said it was good, but not nearly as good as the book.  He's learning...  LOL! "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.  Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die t...

Dan and I are at that age where he has worked the same job long enough to have built up a decent amount of vacation time...  but not enough to be a millionaire and buy me a private jet to fly to see our grandchildren every time he has time off.  Welcome to the empty nest years.   Now it sounds like I'm whining a bit, but we are ridiculously blessed (just not financially wealthy), and we DID manage a trip earlier this year to the grand canyon, and to visit our grandchildren, and Dan even managed to get some time off when the kids were all home to visit this summer.  So this last week of vacation...  I'm unsure why exactly he scheduled it.  I think he thought some of the children would be home, and then their plans all changed..  but I'm unsure.  No matter his reasoning, he had a full week off, 5 days in a row  (although he HAS a good bit of vacation time, when he can actually take it is limited) with two week-ends - for a total of 9 days....

We had a few hours free today, and it's too muddy to get much done on the farm yet, so I planned a day of geocaching in the Hartleton/Laurelton area.  We've already found all the caches between Watsontown and Mifflinburg, and everything in Mifflinburg.  So my list for today  started with Campers In Training, at Camp Mt Luther. It included 23 caches, several being short hikes in the gamelands, but several also being cache and dash urban caches.  And of course, several cemetery caches were mixed in.  (The full original list is at the bottom of this post)  W e ended up only making it about half way through, but that was a choice.  As Datruck said, "lets not get so caught up in the goal that we miss the experiencre.".  It was a GORGEOUS day on the mountain, we enjoyed a few nice walks in the woods, and then we had a really nice time exploring the Union County Sportsmans club, where we saw the animals, walked to the geocache, and then decided to stay f...

Who I am listening to; What I am reading, Using, Making ; Where I am traveling; and When New books are releasing or events are happening, How to's I discovered or used,  this week. Who I've been listening to John Grisham this week.  He did a 13 week book tour in podcasts.  It is fabulous.  Each week he is in a different bookstore, with different authors from the area of the bookstore, and they talk about the writing process, books, and all sorts of things.  Stop 13, with Lisa Scottoline, was one of my favorites - she's very funny, I definitely want to look for her weekly column. What My favorites were Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, and The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell.  (A lot of Bronte readers were disappointed by the book - but I am not familiar enough with the facts about Brontes to pick up on any discrepancies that would irritate me, and I thoroughly enjoyed this as a light read)   Lit...