Setting up the tent on a carpet of pine needles. Hiking to the music of waterfalls. Sipping hot tea around the campfire, watching sparks drift beneath the night sky. Ahhh! There’s nothing like a camping adventure. Here are a few …
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2017 Orange Marmalade Non-Electronics Gift Guide: Outdoor Adventures Edition + Giveaway!!
It’s that time of year! Time for Orange Marmalade to shout out once again: Ditch electronic games as pastimes! Choose juicy, imaginative, life-giving options for the kids on your gift lists! Today — gift ideas to woo kids right out …
this week’s crop of ten top books
Because it’s pool time! Swimming, Swimming, lyrics from an old song, illustrated by Gary Clement published in 2015 by Groundwood Books Big, bold, sunny-day illustrations carry us along an energetic run-through of this classic children’s song. If you don’t know …
tell the ones that need to know, we are headed north…five books for a vacation in northern Minnesota!
Memorial Day week-end in Minnesota has one overarching feature: lines of cars headed north. All of Minnesota is going to open up the cabin for the short, blissful summer season ahead. Cars topped with canoes and kayaks. Cars pulling fishing …
a list of…five books crammed with camping adventures! — from the orange marmalade archives
I’m taking a couple weeks of vacation from blogging, going up to the cabin and visiting my dad, so I’ve dug out some very summer-oriented posts from my archives to re-publish. This one was originally published on July 12, 2010. Our family …
