HaldeCrate
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The National Botanic Garden in Dublin
Technically, my first stop after the airport was my B&B, even though it was only about 9 in the morning and check-in wasn’t until 2 or 3. I knew this was going to happen, so I’d prepped myself for having an unbelievably long day (in retrospect, I maybe should have taken a long nap during
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Who wants to look at my vacation photos?
I know. There’s nothing more boring, right? Well… some of my friends might find some of them interesting. And I have been posting a few, a handful at a time, over on Instagram. But these are the large albums. Here’s what I have so far; I’ve made them as Google Photos albums, which was the
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Feel the fear but do it anyway
I’ve always been low-key afraid of flying. I love the view, I just saw a few airplane crash movies way too young and have always been kind of fearful of them plunging out of the sky. I mean, I’m not “stand up in the middle of the flight and try to open the door to
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This Week in Vacation Planning
Y’all. THREE MORE SLEEPS UNTIL I FULFILL A LIFELONG DREAM OF GOING TO IRELAND. I’d say “I don’t know why I waited this long” but I kind of do know. I saved up money when I was in my early 20s, with a plan of buying a Eurail pass and spending the summer before I
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728 Days of Being a Widow
Or is it 727? This is a leap year so I guess there’s an extra day in there… that seems weird. Anyway, Monday, March 11th, will be two years. People say the second year is worse than the first year, but I don’t know about that. I mean, I get what they’re saying in that
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Wildlife Wednesday (03/06/24)
I did a massive check of the game cams last week, saved the good ones and reformatted the cards, and so this is just from when I replaced everything. One of the cams, the oldest one from my original buying spree years ago, has bit the dust and no longer accepts that batteries can in





