After two years in Massachusetts I finally feel like we are really settled in and live here. We are still in an apartment in Dudley which is very convenient to Zarah’s high school and is quite affordable for the space we have. We are looking at moving a little closer to Boston and to a [...]
Always in motion…
2011 came and went at a mind-boggling speed and left behind in its wake a clarity of mind for me and my life here in New England. I absolutely LOVE living here. It is so beautiful. The experience of life here is fueled by this tenacity and never-ending will of the people who live here. [...]
Spring 2011 at the end of my sophomore year I took the classroom part of driver’s ed. Driving practice was during the summer. One of the days that we were sitting in the hot summer heat, we got a strange thunderstorm. Tornado warnings were everywhere, and the sky turned sort of green. I had never [...]
High school was fun. I had lots of friends, and over all, easy school work. Life was very easy, verging on boring. High school homework couldn’t keep me interested, but that left time I spent job-hunting. Unfortunately job hunting did not result in job finding. I had a near miss with a cupcake shop job [...]
This past year has been full of surprises for me. 2011 was the end of my Senior year. I want to be a wildlife care taker and in order to go to that route; I needed to take advanced science and math classes. I took Advanced Placement Statistics (ended the year with 98), Advanced Calculus [...]
Lillith EOY 2011: Work Health LIfe Balance
After two years in Massachusetts I finally feel like we are really settled in and live here. We are still in an apartment in Dudley which is very convenient to Zarah’s high school and is quite affordable for the space we have. We are looking at moving a little closer...
Jonathan EOY 2011: Intrepid Videographer
2011 came and went at a mind-boggling speed and left behind in its wake a clarity of mind for me and my life here in New England. I absolutely LOVE living here. It is so beautiful. The experience of life here is fueled by this tenacity and never-ending will of...
Zarah EOY 2011: Driving, Sewing, Art and More
Spring 2011 at the end of my sophomore year I took the classroom part of driver’s ed. Driving practice was during the summer. One of the days that we were sitting in the hot summer heat, we got a strange thunderstorm. Tornado warnings were everywhere, and the sky turned sort...
Malachi in 2011: A Great Step Forward!
High school was fun. I had lots of friends, and over all, easy school work. Life was very easy, verging on boring. High school homework couldn’t keep me interested, but that left time I spent job-hunting. Unfortunately job hunting did not result in job finding. I had a near miss...
Selena EOY 2011: Shifting Plans but Still Focused on Wildlife
This past year has been full of surprises for me. 2011 was the end of my Senior year. I want to be a wildlife care taker and in order to go to that route; I needed to take advanced science and math classes. I took Advanced Placement Statistics (ended the...
Girls Spinning Fire
Zarah and Selena attended WildFire last weekend and has a wonderful time! We have so many friends that are part of the fire spinning culture that they had lots of community members who were there at WildFire to coach them and keep them safe. They attended workshops that included learning...
Second Vehicle
After more than a year with just one vehicle, we are on the verge of having a third driver and had a growing need for a vehicle that we could pull the alpaca trailer with as well as carry more stuff to camping events. So we found a used white...
Malachi Graduates High School
Malachi has graduated from high school cum laude (with honors) for his excellent grades. We are super proud of him. Malachi has been living with his Dad a little North of Houston, Texas and attended Cy-Fair High School. He graduated with almost 900 other students from one of the best...
Alpaca Shearing 2011
Alpacas get sheared once a year. In Arizona we sheared in April but here in Massachusetts, April was too cold and too wet, so we waited into May. The day before shearing the last weekend in May it got hot, really hot. We were setting up the shearing shade pavilion...
Zarah Was Beautiful at the Prom
Our daughter Zarah was just beautiful in her dress for prom night this year. The theme was “Paris” and she fit right in. She had a very good time with her girlfriend Selena and many other friends who attended. This was Selena’s senior year so it was an especially important...
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