The Porch Postscript

First stop Green River, UT. Laugh if you want to, our family did. This was the first stop that wasn’t a family mooch-docking spot, and it was a perfect place to lay down stakes for a couple of days.  We started out the trip in Silt, CO where’d spend the night at my nephew’s.    Green River, UT is about 173 miles from Silt, CO.  We found in our trip down from Alaska that 150 to 250 miles per day works best for us.  We spend less time on the road during the busiest times of the day and  Driving across I-70 through Colorado and into Utah was a beautiful trip.  The farther west we traveled the more Fall colors we found, and then we popped into the beautiful desert with its stunning rock cliffs and mountains.   I’ll admit the desert isn’t my happy place but it sure makes Hubby’s heart sing.  He loves the arid climate and the miles of sand and sagebrush.  I love the sand, but I prefer mine with a side of sea rather than sage. We put down stake...

Hello! If you’re new here, we’re the Petersen’s and we fell into retirement a year earlier than we’d planned. We put our Alaska house on the market and in June we moved in to a 37 foot toy hauler fifth wheel. If you’re a SLMPetersen newsletter subscriber, you already know we left Alaska at the end of July and took a 12 day journey through Canada to Wyoming. We’ve spent the last two and a half months mooch-docking on my brother’s ranch, waiting for our house in Alaska to close.   The house still hasn’t closed and we officially ran out of “camping weather” mid October we picked up stakes for the next leg of the journey. While we continue to wait on the house closing, and continue to put all the place for our forever home we’re headed south.   The plan was always to travel in our fifth wheel, but the early retirement added a fun twist to the plan.  We’ll spending the next six months traveling the US, while we wait for our forever home to be build in Baggs, WY.  For ...

Good morning!  Yesterday I had Hubby Help me do a bit of a rearrangement of furniture in my studio.  this has been on my mind for a couple of months.  I wanted more natural light on my work and to get my computer out of the big window.  Mission accomplished! A few minor things need to happen, like touching up the edge of my big table that was against the wall and never painted white.  The result brought in so much more natural light, made my large table more accessible for larger projects, and created a fresh space I'll enjoy working in.   I was able to stash my sewing machine table under my large table and move some shelving under one end of the table and will now be able to cut fabric without setting up a small space in the hallway.  Moving the shelving under the table opened up a new space for watercoloring as well. In the photo above you can see my large window, before the work of rearranging the space it was partially covered by my large comp...

I've only talked about getting a new camera for what seems like a decade.  Yesterday I finally splurged on my first large-format camera.  I also purchased a super zoom lens that I can not wait to get my hands on for wildlife photography.  So what did I buy and why... Nikon Z5 Mirroless ( Adorama.com ) I bought a Nikon Z5 Mirrorless Camera, a 24mm to 400mm super zoom lens, and the Nikon Mount Adapter.  The adapter will enable me to continue to use my F-mount lenses on the new Z-mount large-format camera.   I've been shooting with Nikon since the early 2000s and getting another one was a no-brainer.  In some aspects, camera people are like car people.  You're a Nikon, Cannon, Fugi, etc. just like there are Ford, Dodge, or Chevy people.  Why mirrorless?  I've been watching mirrorless cameras since they came out a few years ago.  The prospect of a lighter camera with lens options has intrigued me from the start, but when they first came...

This morning I posted the following on all three of my Insta accounts:   I'm returning to blogging - right now you can find me on my blog - https://www.theporchpostscript.com/ and you can find my photography - https://www.stacypetersen.com/   I haven't made the decision on a specific place for the art part of my life yet, but I'll announce that on The Porch Postscript when and if I do. You can also find me on Substack - https://theporchpostscript.substack.com/ In the last month, I've left the IG completely. Was it because of all the changes? No not really. The changes made me lose interest. I joined IG for photography and a place filled with artists and makers. This isn't that place anymore. It's time to go back to blogging and build something I want rather than chase what the algorithm wants.   I plan to delete all of my accounts in a few weeks. Yes, I did say delete. I've downloaded the data and am now ready to cut the cord and delete it. About a month ago...

Just how many times have I reinvented myself?  It's hard to say.  I've changed career paths a half dozen times in my life.  I've moved states three times, getting ready for a fourth in a couple of years.  I've written four different blogs, counting this one.  I've dabbled in a handmade card business.  Attempted a marketing business under the ideas of others' influence.  I abandon things when I lose interest or get bored.  Yet here I sit at the crossroads of reinvention and coming back to something I used to love. I wrote recently about Sharing Without Social  Sharing Without Social .  About kicking Insta to the curb and being unsure of making a home on Substack.  The truth of the matter is that I really need to come back to writing and sharing for the sake of my own enjoyment, not because it's the latest place to share or an algorithm tells me this is what gets the clicks.  Doing it because I enjoy having a record of what I've ...