Hartman Creek State Park

Early morning sunlight dancing around the trees

We found yet another beautiful area of Wisconsin last weekend. We camped in the Hartman Creek State Park in Waupaca, where we were situated among towering pine trees, right on the lake. There were awesome biking & hiking trails. Che and I got lost on some really hilly bike trails in the woods and John explored the single-track trails. We also spent the better part of a day fishing from canoes on two peaceful lakes. Unfortunately, it was too sunny for many fish to be biting, but John caught one and Jenny caught a couple. Che 'caught' a leech on her foot and Ben almost caught our resident racoon with a hatchet!

We had perfect weather, beautiful scenery, great company... I couldn't have asked for a more relaxing weekend.

4Ever Hippie

Ben & Che in their canoe

Biggest catch of the day!

Ahhh Yes... Sweet Sweet Summer

Are there even words?

What an idiot. 180 miserable days left...

Ate there even words?

Nineties Nostalgia

I realized yesterday, as I was jamming to Sirius' Lithium station in the car, how much I miss nineties music. I'm not sure if it's the music itself or the time of my life it makes me remember, those high school years when I was too young to have much responsibility in the world, yet old enough to have the freedom to do pretty much anything I wanted.

I miss spending those carefree summers with friends watching MTV all day long (when they actually played videos!), walking to the gas station or Shopko if we needed something; when eating too much sugar or drinking too much caffiene were the worst things we did to our bodies. I guess there's a sense of innocence that I feel when I hear songs from this era of my life.

My Ultimate Nineties Nostalgia Playlist

Beck - Loser

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Green Day - Longview

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World

Collective Soul - Shine
Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)

Blues Traveler - Run Around

Better Than Ezra - Good

No Doubt - Just a Girl

Live - Selling the Drama

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

Oh, and speaking of STP, I saw them last week - front row, baby!!!

Finally

So here I am again!

I just was just daydreaming and asked myself a question that I truly couldn't answer. It intriuged me so much that I had to put it on here...

Could I ever purchase a lottery ticket, not look at the numbers, throw it away in the gas station garbage can and walk away?

Would I freak out never knowing?? What if there was a winner who never claimed the prize? Would I forever think that I had the winning ticket and had thrown it away?

Some day I hope to be in a good enough place to follow through on this experiment confidently.