Packing Willow's travel items, creating a much needed cozy moment, a unique business opportunity

In today's episode, Willow Travel Articles visits Newburyport Mass, a possible

business

opportunity

, and an update on new articles. I hope you enjoy. Hello, good morning Kindred Spirits, or should I say afternoon or evening, for me it's morning right now, just let me see, it's around 8:00 and it's not as early as it could be, not like last week, please of course, but I'm headed to the NorthShore of Massachusetts to visit my mom and that's about a 2 hour drive, so when I do I try to make another little trip to the Northshore. when possible because it's not always possible with traffic and schedules, but today it is possible and I've decided to leave a little early and pack Willow's things because she's coming with me.

Ben is

travel

ing as of today, he is in Florida and the last one. The night we sat from the balcony of his hotel and watched the sunset together, it was beautiful, it was magical, but it made me want to see the ocean, so that drove me today and it should be quite nice, he said there will be here 62°, which is usually warmer, so I dressed in layers and hope I don't get too hot because after that I go to my mom's house for lunch and then she wants to sit outside in her development and try to take a little sun, so what?

What I'm going to do now is pack up and I bought him this bag as a Christmas gift. I think it was even this year and this is not sponsored, but I really liked the content and some of it is saved. but what I like to do is have some bowls for water and food that just fold up. I don't always have to use water. I'm going to stay outside the box here because I love using these little glasses for drinks. that you press a button and water comes out she should take another one but I'm just going to fill this I'm going to fill one for myself not like this even if it's my own bottle I should go get it while' I'm thinking about it or I'll forget it and I don't care about the hair.

I jumped out of the shower. I put lotion on and Will is going to bark. There's a lot of tree work outside right now on the other side of the road, so I'm trying to stick around. When it comes to drinking a lot of water, when I watch some of the videos I can tell when I'm dehydrated, I mean, it shows in my hands, it shows in my neck, it shows in my eyes, so being hydrated is key, right? You know? my hair everything, so I'm really trying to keep up with that. I usually add some supplements to the water I have.

I have my probiotics and my collagen here, but I already had them this morning with my first coffee, so I'm upset. With that, another thing I'm going to do is prepare some food for her. I already took it out of her bag. She gets a little kibble mix and then some human grade food made by a dog company, but it's a human thing. grade food, just a little touch for a treat and she got it all the time, but she was insatiable with it, she wanted it all the time, it's very expensive, it was like 200 a month, so now we just do it as a little Garrison.

Pervette even said that she was gaining a little weight because of how

much

she loved him, so we did, so I got him food and water. I always like to bring her retractable leash in case we go down in the water and at this point. I think she can still go to the beach if we get to a beach. I don't want to get too dirty because my mom's apartment is usually very immaculate and I don't want sand everywhere, so I put it retractable. leash on and she also has a strap that goes around her chest so when I pull I don't choke her and it actually helps that she pulls me so now I have a couple of backpacks but let's go with a matching one because I'm dressed in blue and white today and I'm going to put these things here.

I have some little bags for when she does her

business

and speaking of business, she's waiting patiently for me to take her outside to the office so she can do some business and then we'll add this here and I think I'm even going to grab a ball because she she'll entertain with a ball or tease us with it by moving it back and forth, but I'm going to Go grab a ball and put it here too, okay, so we have our ball, so Willow's bag is ready. Now my mom already informed me that she ordered lunch for us, so we will have lunch at her unit.

I'm going to bring a little snack for the road so I don't stop and eat something bad and, um, then we'll go from there, so I'll take her outside and we'll hit the road with my coffee, well, I hope so. she doesn't line up across the street to visit all the workers there. Look, I put the square wreath on the door here, it's a little big, but I like it, so let's take it to the backyard and I. I'm going to give you a quick little tour of the garden. Things are definitely blowing up. Speaking of exploding.

Remember that huge almost plate of orange poppy he had. Well, it's growing well. It's very nice. I was going to move it somewhere else, but I think I'll do that. I'll leave it here this year again, but we have a lot of daffodils and I have the tulips hin. We have our panels going through. I already mentioned lilies. Did I mention lilies? And then I have some flocks here. Some tall flocks of carnation. I have, let's see. What else is here? We have the catnip that I mentioned last month about the spread of pansies, if you didn't think pansies came back every year, here's proof that it can happen, especially here, where I'm surprised it didn't. excited about the piy that I was really hard on, I mean I literally dug it up and put it here in the ground because I was saving it under the lilac tree, it's coming back in full force.

I'm very excited now that they told me. it was a tree panty I don't think it is so I have to look at it and figure it out and maybe I discovered it last year and I don't remember. Maybe I've looked it up, okay? Willow, Willows, yay, Willow. Woohoo, this is when she gets a little gift. I always make sure to give her a treat because now she will usually go on command, unless we are in a hurry she won't go on command and here is the little back section I worked on. The other day, my goodness, it was hard trying not to get my feet wet with everything I did, but the daffodils are beautiful here since I've been clearing this garden over the years.

More and more things appear like I have To watch my videos, I don't remember these little white mini pents, but they must have been here, then again, there was just so

much

here. I took out a block of grass that was here earlier, so maybe they just came back. I have to look at a

willow

tree looking at them too. My favorite are the white daffodils, I must say, and these have a bit of a glow when they hit the sun. I don't know if the sun hits them correctly. Let me see if I can. I'll show you, let me see if I can expose it to the sun.

I just realized this is a different daffodil and I'm going to embed a video from I don't know if it was last year or the year before that shows the spark. but it is in this group that they have not yet opened. These are the beautiful white daffodils and I don't know if I can get close enough. They shine in the sunlight. I've noticed that some daffodil leaves do that, but no. Aren't they beautiful? I realized it again last night. I haven't been drawing like I used to and I want to, so I'm reevaluating my life and when I say reevaluating my life I don't mean anything important, but I realize that I'm not okay, it's kind of like doing what I say, no what I do.

I have a lot to slow down and I've been enjoying every minute of it, don't get me wrong, but I've been busy with things I'm

creating

and doing, but I've made some decisions and I think they're all good ones, so I can't wait to share them with you soon. . I'm going to go slower on this part. I'm noticing for the first time that there is actually a square impression in the grass and I went back out and there are other shapes in this area of ​​grass. I can't help but wonder if there were gardens in this section before here, so I think we're ready to attack.

On the way I'm just going to grab a small healthy snack to keep in the car and then we're going to hit the road, like I said it's like 2 hours with traffic, it'll be more so I'll make it a nice trip. and in fact, sometimes I listen to podcasts or YouTube while driving. Porch, it needs a little love too. I realized that I really enjoyed having this coat rack on the porch. I brought it here when we had a meeting in January, it was very convenient instead of just being able to hang a couple on the wall or inside, but this will have to go and I want to show it to you here.

I have white bleeding hearts on the porch. They are very good. I put them right inside each other. terracotta pot just so they wouldn't be so ugly and I guess it's a little silly that I did that because I still have the herbs in a cardboard box but they're doing really well, I don't know, if you remember, remember how small they were. they were and how short they were when I brought them home. They love. I've been taking them outside and getting some sunlight, just trying to acclimate them, but they haven't come out for a while.

Many people asked me what I do. with the orange mint and I'm sorry I didn't mention it. I keep forgetting that I have so many new followers with the orange mint what I do is trim it and then I dry it either naturally or in the dehydrator, okay now the orange mint and strawberry mint leaves are in the dehydrator. Now I'm going to sit with my cup of coffee and look at a coffee table book for a

moment

just to start my morning that way. I haven't looked at the emails yet. I haven't scrolled yet so I'm still trying to keep up with my social media less in the morning and I really like my time to myself so I'll do that in about 4 hours.

I'm going to go back and check these herbs and if they are nice and dry I'll put them in airtight containers, like jars, and then I can harvest a little more if I want or I can start with the apples, not sure yet and then use it for teas and tinctures . I just love the taste. I didn't really like strawberry mint. I thought no, the orange mint was my favorite and I want to make a lot because I saved the dried orange mint last winter so I would still have some available until I have more so now I can have the rest, maybe I'll make it for the trip, no, it's too late, oh god, my hands smell so good now like orange mint, okay.

I'm going to go grab everything and another thing Willow got, she has a sling here in the back seat of the car. You know, sometimes you stop dead. Dogs can go behind the seat. Well, she has a

cozy

little sling. I'm just going to Pivot here, this is the name of the one I have on my car, then it has a little bit different one and it also helps keep the car clean. You know, there's a lot of sand and dirt here and I can unpack it, but I have to be real, I'm the one who doesn't keep the car clean, it's my ring that leaves the office, so I'm going to put my stuff in the front seat and once again hit the road, I still say that literally.

I open the door and realize it's later than I thought, so I don't even know if I have time to do it. First change while driving. Zed when I should have zagged and then realized it was really going to take too long. It's longer to get to If Switch than it is to my mom's so I ended up going to Newport parked where I usually do so we could take a walk around the little Warf, it's blocked, they're doing construction so we're just going to take a little Cross. Walk through the countryside here and enjoy some of it, stop dragging yourself with them and at least get some fresh air, some Ocean Air, but yeah, they've pretty much blocked off the entire boardwalk.

I think we can get to it in another area, although walking is one thing. being with Willow is saving me money because I can't go to the shops to shop oh after a quick break for a drink we headed to my mother's house and what I didn't realize was that we were going to do a little genealogy that my mother has. many family books she is the one who taught me so much about research but today she asked me to go over things and try to help her remember and I don't think she realizes that my memory is probably worse than hers but really It's fun to review family information and facts.

You can get one of those books. I thought you had one, so Amazon would have it or not. This was a long day for Willow and she was ready to go to bed. Hers He has hers hers little doll of her Peter Rabbit and her. she's waiting for me and I'm not ready to go to bed but she keeps trying to get me to follow her oh you can't go to bed the door is closed oh no it's okay you can go to bed good night good night nights, I still have work. what to do, you can go to bed, good night, well the other day I mentioned that I hadn't been drawing and I realized that one of the reasons I don't feel like I had time to draw was because I was scrolling again and did not appear. to my attention until I watched the video again when she was drying the herbs and saying that she wasn't going to move me that far.

Now I know. I'm here on my phone again, but I'm doing this to share with you, so I'm not going to scroll this morning, I grabbed my books and I realized something. I have some quirks about me. I really enjoyed drawing and that's when I started. This is 2020, when I was learning to draw on my own, which I always loved. do when I was a child, butit was a little difficult and I had fun doing it and I really enjoyed working with this size of book and I thought I have it here, maybe it's in another book and then each year I really liked seeing how things progress. on like my P and thoughts, stuff like that, but I liked this size of book and couldn't find it again, so I ended up grabbing this larger one and thought I would like it. but the texture of the paper is a little different of course, The size is a little different and I couldn't devote as much time to drawing.

I even tried to make it more like a gardening journal where I took notes, but once again, here it is. 2024 I didn't draw much last year, but today, April 4, I'll start again mhm, we see a problem here. I do, so I don't know if I need to get another book like this, which I did find. I found some that I think are this size and this style and I'm actually researching them to take and share so I'm going to get some samples. Where am I still in this book? Continue I guess I'll continue in this book. but I need to work on this to literally write that it will start on April 4th and the pages are still blank afterwards that's not right, that's not right, so I'm going to get my coffee, which is already here on the other side of the table I have a little package of coffee I'm trying out for one of our fine living B boxes but I have my pencils with the eraser and I'm going to sit down and I'm going to draw with my coffee I stopped for a

moment

and took another step towards my little version of good life this morning by getting rid of the thick white coffee cup a couple of times and enjoy the moment.

Drawing this nice hin another day this week, I took another little road trip, but it was just a few minutes from our house and I never knew it. existed, it's a mountain road that you can walk and drive on, it was $4 a person and it was a very steep climb and you could see Boston in the distance and in fact I kept clutching the door and holding my breath because this was a highway two-way road and it didn't look like a two-way road. I'm glad I'm not driving. It was 10° warmer. You'd be in the old truck.

If she did, she wouldn't want to go. down oh god my ears just touched the Boston viewing area well just standing on top of the mountain I was cold and ended up craving a vanilla milkshake of all things or fra it's different in different parts of the country . I realized this, but we ended up leaving. to Kimble Farms and I ended up getting a cheeseburger too and I met a kindred spirit there and thank you so much for coming to say hello. I really enjoyed our chat now that we're at the end of the video. I have a special announcement for some of you.

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