Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my happiness blog for 2021. Every day I look for something that is good in my life that I am grateful for or happy about and write about them. I try to make these short. Whether you are visiting my blogs for the first time or you have come back for another year, thank you!

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This being the first day of a new year I went for a nice long walk. There is a fire tower not too far from home that I traveled to. The Concord-side parking lot was pretty full, so I drove to the trail on the other side of the hill, in Loudon, which had no vehicles on the roadside when I got there. The trail from the Loudon side is basically a service road for the people servicing the miscellaneous towers at the top and it is the easier/faster way up. The trails on the Concord side of the towers are trails, not a road, and there are loops and side trails to explore. Since I wanted to be out for a while, after going up the fire tower, I explored some of the trails on the Concord side.

Trail head.

View from the fire tower towards home.

Mount Kearsarge from the fire tower.

There must be a story, I don't know what it is...

Mount Kearsarge from Slope Swope Vista on the trail.

After I got home, Zed, Gideon, Bel, Folke, and I all went for a walk around the property. We have some nice views on these thirteen-ish acres. It has been four days since I walked the property. I’ve started a new blog to highlight things that not everyone will want to see when they come to a blog about things to be happy about. So there is a separate link for what we saw, a deer carcass.

Gideon and Zed took the low road.

Folke and Bel.

Some kind of animal tracks.

Other things I am happy about today:

• Zed got Chinese food for dinner.

• Sitting by the fire with the family watching Star Trek DS9.

• Playing Minecraft with TF.

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Currently listening to the book: All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, by Mildred D. Taylor.

Stay safe.