Who: I’m Kelley. My husband and I own a brewery. I enjoy hiking, camping, quilting and spending time with friends and family. I have two kitties. My husband (Big Country) and I welcomed our son (the Peanut) into the world in December 2011.
What: This is a blog about anything and everything.
Where: Northwestern Montana is where we call home, but we enjoy adventuring.
When: I try to post fairly regularly, but I don’t blog daily. (I don’t understand how any young parent and business owner can manage that!)
Why: This is a record of things that are important to me, and these include (but are not limited to): my family, spending time outside, gardening, journalism, photography, and traveling.
Camera details: I use a Nikon D7000 and a Canon PowerShot.
Hi, nice to meet you !
I’ve never met a person who has both Nikon and Canon at that level
I’m a photographer too and also in a long-distance relationship although mine hopefully is coming to an end soon and is a wee bit longer than 4 hours away. Good to meet you. Nice pics.
oh and good luck on your upcoming wedding and more importantly your marriage!
Hey Kelley: Love the blog! Your pictures are great. You are fabulous and hope that you are staying warm in the Montana winter….brrrrr:) Hel
Just stumbled upon your blog, and I know what you mean about feeling down. I, too, write all day, then find it impossible to keep up the energy and love and brainpower for my mediocre blog or any sort of “real” writing.
I always say were I bagging groceries, I’d be one heck of a writer.
I should stop saying that.
Point is, your writing below was truly inspiring. Hell, it inspired me to write, right? Spectacular.
— Second confession: I’m feeling rather down right now about my writing (maybe that’s part of the reason I didn’t finish NaNo?). I write for a living, so all day, every day, I am expected to be creative and coherent. This makes going home to write creatively a challenge sometimes. I also feel lazy sometimes when it comes to this blog. I want to write beautifully about even the most mundane events in my life, but I feel like I don’t have the energy. This isn’t all the time of course, but do you ever have the feeling you’re doing everything in your life half ass? That’s how I feel right now and it’s upsetting. I also read a lot of news articles, blogs and literature and I can’t help but wonder every now and then what’s the point. I can write well, yes, but not spectacularly. Guess I just need more practice
Hi Kelley,
I am an Art director of a Dutch garden magazine and would like to use a picture of painting the chair. Is it possible when I put your credits next to it?
Damn, I guess I am the only woman who runs her own (home) brewery, Desert Wind Brewery of Benton City, WA. Well, I am married, but my husband is disabled and can’t help with the brewery. It’s a hobby for me at this point, but in the future – who knows…