Jill – theholtsite https://theholtsite.com/blog Ben, Jill, and Alice Holt Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:13:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://theholtsite.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.gif Jill – theholtsite https://theholtsite.com/blog 32 32 A little Watercolor https://theholtsite.com/blog/8023/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/8023/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:13:34 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=8023

Fun painting night with the ladies at church
Making some decor for our Hobbit Party at school

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/8023/feed/ 0 How’s your summer? https://theholtsite.com/blog/7958/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7958/#respond Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:04:19 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7958 This is the question people enjoy asking and telling about. Really it has been a wonderful summer. We don’t do big trips, but enjoy small excursions to visit friends and family. I’m slow to import photos from our camera, which makes me a slow blogger. 😛 But some highlights have been running an archery class, camping in NH with family, enjoying our new ebike :D, visits with church family, and of course, all aspects of fishing!

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7958/feed/ 0 Winter in Maine https://theholtsite.com/blog/7786/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7786/#comments Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:57:13 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7786 A special treat is getting up to Maine for winter vacation! Outdoor sports, skating, snowmobiling, indoor gaming, crafting, and a Hibachi dinner to celebrate a birthday! Big Fiyah! 🙂

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7786/feed/ 1 A lot Like Christmas https://theholtsite.com/blog/7744/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7744/#comments Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:28:24 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7744 My camera naturally gives a vintage sepia feel to things. So here is Grammy & Pop’s tree looking pretty much like it did in 1980 😀

And da coooookies

And now here… we have a situation where the beloved singing Frosty the Snowman suddenly didn’t work. Upon investigation we saw that his guts had been ripped out! Upon more detective work it was revealed who the culprit was…. I guess after so many years of singing kids toys one is entitled to a break! 😀 😀

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7744/feed/ 1 December Blog https://theholtsite.com/blog/7713/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7713/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:42:39 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7713 No blog since August. 😛 Largely this is because I don’t get around to importing photos too often. But here is a little fall collection, mostly reflecting that we spent a lot of time outdoors. I love that the cousins got hiking fever this fall. 🙂 Here are some pics of Oxbow Wildlife, hiking Mt. Wachusett and Mt. Monadnock, big fishies, Hammond Castle, and the exciting hen-of-the-woods that we found! 😀

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7713/feed/ 1 Nashua RIver – Beauty and Dump https://theholtsite.com/blog/7685/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7685/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:45:04 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7685

I’ve lived some 40 years in this area until had been to this spot! Bolton Flats is really beautiful. Reminds me of Hobbiton. 🙂 This here is Elizabeth Brook.

However, the river is also a collection area for the dump and trash of the watershed. This is some vintage trash! Even a mud-larking enthusiast like me found it overly sad and gross.

But then back on the trails the beauty is so serene and definitely a spot I would like to return to often. 🙂

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7685/feed/ 1 Picture taking https://theholtsite.com/blog/7456/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7456/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:46:49 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7456 My first camera I ever received was a Christmas present from my Uncle Marsh. I thought that was a most amazing gift! It had a sweet lens, which someone else also admired and stole off of my camera while on the boat ride to Nantucket. 😛 But it was a good film camera that I had for many years.

Then the Poloroid was all the rage and I loved using that camera! Instant photos? Yes!

Eventually I got more compact point and shoot cameras that I could easily bring to camp and every day life. I took a lot of pictures and kept active photo albums archiving every day life.

Then a funny thing happened when I acquired my first “very nice camera”. I happened to find it at the dump even! It was so fancy and big that…I just didn’t really bring it and take any pictures! And then cell phones with camera capability became the thing. But something about the feel of a phone taking a picture never appealed. And so I took less and less photos.

But now I was gifted by my hubby a Camp Snap camera and it feels like an ol’ disposable camera, lightweight with one simple button.

I feel 16 again bringing my camera with me and snapping pictures of life. 😀 Here’s a pretty average day consisting of family life, music, games with friends and chickens, fishing, and women’s bible study. 🙂

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7456/feed/ 2 Photos and Updates https://theholtsite.com/blog/7078/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7078/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:49:57 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7078 I suppose the early 2000’s were the days of the weekly updated family blog sites… much less so today! And we only get updates here every few months or so. Oh well! Here are some of our pics and happenings. 😛

Love this scene of mutli-generational baking. These young ladies are learning from the master!
Here is our dinner that we processed ourselves – rabbit! Just roasted it up, and later made Rabbit Pot Pie. Delish!
Ben and Alice worked hard tending to the hides and tanning them.
Wandering around Wayside Inn
And fleeing! I can only get candids of these guys… 😛
Awesome date in the tavern
]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7078/feed/ 1 Ten & Twenty, December 10th https://theholtsite.com/blog/7044/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7044/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:36:19 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7044 I enjoy looking back ten years and twenty years and finding photos in the archives. These are funny ones in how they match! 😀

Alice 2013. Nathan 2003.

]]> https://theholtsite.com/blog/7044/feed/ 1 Just Photos https://theholtsite.com/blog/7023/ https://theholtsite.com/blog/7023/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:39:21 +0000 https://theholtsite.com/blog/?p=7023 Some photos from the collection, including, but not limited to, double batch cinnamon rolls, cinnamon roll BREAD, cooking on the tiny cast iron stove, a picnic feast for a tiny one. 😀

And Little Mushrooms photo shoot. Just this cutie growing out back amid the moss. Photography by Ben. 🙂

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