my county road
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My County Road: Hit the Reset
Growing up in the country outside a small town in Indiana with a population around 1,700 — we moved to a neighborhood in a city with a population of around 20,000. Now we’re back where we were before… and live in a barn.
From here, I can see the house where I grew up. I can also see the one where I raised my son. We were ready for a more relaxed and imperfect way of life, and have found it here.

Barndo Creek is a great place if you’re a dog — not a privacy fence in sight.
@ my county road…
zucchini lasagna is not so bad
On the "fat girls" diet race again this year and I'm doing my best to win. At the very least, I don't want to fall into last place. Katie told...
i can’t do the things i could when i was 45, but i can take a sunset photo (#40 of 52)
My back has been jacked for over a week now. It feels different this time from the way it felt when I had surgery in August 2014, but similar in...
sunset #39 of 52 and it’s time to break out a better camera
Summer was in full swing... for maybe 3 days. Yesterday it rained ALL DAY LONG and today we have cooler than normal temps. Not swimming weather......
the seymour house got a facelift
The buyer of the house in Seymour chose a realtor I know. I got a text yesterday from her that the buyer shared -- it was a photo of the outside...
sunset #38 of 52… is anything real anymore?
I have a sunset to share. I took the photo from my backyard last night... Crazy what AI can do, right? That's a true Indiana sunset, it's just that...
a bad back and bad air — what’s up with that?
I've started back on my treadmill routine. That exercise has been pretty non-existent because of all the contractor activity around here, so getting...