OK everyone, today is the official beginning of Walktober, though if you’ve gone out exploring early, we won’t argue! But if you haven’t yet, find a place you’d like to walk…| Change Is Hard
10 posts published by dawnkinster during October 2023| Change Is Hard
Posts about Northern Michigan written by dawnkinster| Change Is Hard
Camping in the woods is fun, but it’s more fun if it doesn’t rain every single day and night. I guess I should count myself lucky that it didn’t rain all day every day. I waded a …| Change Is Hard
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Every summer we are lucky enough to have orioles visit our feeder. They never stay long enough, many adults leave sometime in mid to late August which seems too early. The juveniles stick around a couple more weeks, eating the … Continue reading →| Change Is Hard
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Sometimes I go camping just to have a few days away from everyday responsibilities. Time to nap and read and snack and daydream. Just one exit up the road from home. Sometimes I go camping with a s…| Change Is Hard
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Penny here. I interrupt your August to bring you a special announcement. Mom and I NQ’d yesterday. But I can explain. You remember last weekend when we went to a ‘fun’ match and I decided in the ring that I … Continue reading →| Change Is Hard
Lately, not often, but once in awhile, I notice something in my periphery vision that looks like a person standing off in the distance. Down the road, across the lawn, far away. It’s just a moment, mostly a dark grey … Continue reading →| Change Is Hard
Summer is flying by, and soon it will be September when the Truck Safety Coalition holds it annual fundraising dinner, and then it will be November when we ask our friends and family to donate thro…| Change Is Hard
Hi everybody! It’s me, your best girl Penny! Mom gave me permission to write on her blog this time. She says she wasn’t even going to bring this up. And she doesn’t want to talk a…| Change Is Hard
Almost a week ago now we had clear skies, no moon, and moderate temperatures. It was all perfect for a Milky Way photo shoot. So a photographer friend and I along with her daughter took a run up to the thumb of Michigan to find somewhere to spend the night under the stars. There’s a … … Continue reading →| Change Is Hard
You remember Deuce, my friend’s cocker spaniel, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge in March. Well, this past Saturday there was a ceremony at War Dogs Memorial where he and 3 other special dogs w…| Change Is Hard
Posts about HGTV cancelations written by dawnkinster| Change Is Hard
Penny here! Mom says she has a whole bunch of camping pictures to sort through and she doesn’t have time to post about my day. So I’ll just do it myself. After all, I am the brilliant, …| Change Is Hard
From a People Magazine post – so you have to take it with a grain of salt… The hosts of four HGTV programs announced on Instagram that their shows had allegedly been canceled Bargain Bl…| Change Is Hard
Hey there, it’s me, Penny! Once again I’m jumping online late at night while my mom snores over there on the sofa. She says if I want to write I should go get my own blog, but I say why…| Change Is Hard
Hi, hi, hi, HI Everybody!! It’s me, Penny! Me just before our walk. I think they do bonfires at this park sometimes. Mom was talking about Walktober this week, and I wanted to know what it wa…| Change Is Hard
Regardless of your politics, if you’d met him, you’d have liked him. Messages of love and loss are coming from across the country after Rep Connolly’s death yesterday. Most of the…| Change Is Hard
Posts about night photography written by dawnkinster| Change Is Hard
You haven’t heard from me in awhile, but there’s a very good reason. It was the moon’s fault. You remember back a couple three weeks when we enjoyed the lunar eclipse? Well you kn…| Change Is Hard
Hi everybody, Penny here. Well. I ask you….do I LOOK like I have a temper? Mom and daddy say that it’s time that I stop all my temper tantrums at home and the barking and lunging at dog…| Change Is Hard
Where to go for my Walktober, where to go? It’s been weighing on my mind. I’ve done so many, taken you to visit all my local favorites, some of them multiple times. You and I have walke…| Change Is Hard
Well, it’s that time of year again…time to dust off the ole walking shoes, grab your phone or your camera (or both!) and head out to find something interesting or boring, pretty or mund…| Change Is Hard
As usual I had grand plans for Walktober. A place a couple of hours away was calling my name, but also as usual life got in the way and I can’t find a day when I can spend four hours to trave…| Change Is Hard
I look forward to Robin’s Walktober all year. She has hosted it for many years, a period of time in October where we all go for a walk, take a few (or a lot) of pictures, and share the walk w…| Change Is Hard
One of my favorite things about October is Robin’s Walktober post where she invites all of us to get out and take a walk and then shares them all with the blogosphere. And here it is the midd…| Change Is Hard
I’ve been on lots of great walks this month. Casual walks around the neighborhood, fun walks with Katie the dog, beautiful walks through the autumn woods. I could have done a Walktober post a…| Change Is Hard
I try very hard to not get political here or on any social media. But these last couple of weeks have been overwhelming and I’ve been feeling sad and hopeless. Perhaps you’ve been feeli…| Change Is Hard
Ten days ago I took you with me while I searched for the redheaded woodpecker. And as you saw, we found the noisy little guy almost right away! So did we turn around and go home, having achieved ou…| Change Is Hard
It’s been awhile, a really long while, since I’ve been out to Kensington to feed the birds. A photographer friend and I have been talking about it for what feels forever – –…| Change Is Hard
I’m in another one of my funky, can’t figure out how to do stuff, phases. You know how it is (or maybe you don’t), you’re bee-bopping along doing stuff you’ve always d…| Change Is Hard
I’ve been blogging since September 2006, when I was in grad school and a fellow student was putting together a host something or other to support people’s blogs. My first post was about…| Change Is Hard
We have been so lucky, up here in Michigan, (and sometimes all the way down to Georgia!) to be able to see the Northern Lights quite frequently this past summer and into fall. May 2024, somewhere i…| Change Is Hard
Tonight I was sorting through the pictures from my drive home from Alabama. I liked so many of them I feel like I need to share some of them with you. So…here’s the end of my vacation, …| Change Is Hard
Hey there, it’s me, Penny. See, it all started yesterday when my mom said we were going on a ‘venture. I could hardly wait. Let’s go mom! She said in order to get ready for this &…| Change Is Hard
I'm a long time banker having worked in banks since the age of 17. I took a break when I turned 50 and went back to school. I graduated right when the economy took a turn for the worst and after …| Change Is Hard
Penny has been spoiled and so have her mom and dad. When we’ve needed her to be somewhere besides our house during the last almost two years, we’ve been able to deposit her back with he…| Change Is Hard
Last week we got our first significant snow of the season. We’d been enjoying unseasonably warm weather for most of December and January, while at the back of our minds we worried about our l…| Change Is Hard
