All of my nieces are much more than nice. They are fantastic, but I liked the sound of the title. The ones I’m writing about today are two of the North Carolina nieces. Kathie and Julie dropped by to see me on their way home from “leaf peeping”. Leaf peepers are what you call people who travel to see fall foliage in the mountains. Julie took a selfie of us enjoying ourselves.
We didn’t have much time, so we talked a mile a minute. It was a given that the scenery was gorgeous. I enjoyed hearing Julie exclaim over the lazy river they saw. (A lazy river is a manmade loop pool with a current just strong enough to move a tube or raft along.) Although the temperature was almost at the freezing point, people were outside enjoying the warm water and a nearby hot tub.
I wanted to know what was new in Kathie’s life, and I enjoyed her reply. It is absolutely fantastic to be a teacher, now that COVID restrictions have been lifted. She said, “We can see the students’ faces again! I told them before that the only thing we could read about their reactions were their eyebrows.”
I had read that communication was severely hampered by mask-wearing, and there was the proof from a hands-on (eyes-on) teacher.
An aside to daughter Lise: Kathie and Julie said they were very impressed at how very neat David and I have kept the house after you left.
A further comment to neighbors: Julie and Kathie exclaimed, “Wow! Look at this garage!! We have never seen it so good!”
Mehrling Muse 
Thank you for taking the time to explain words, such as “leaf peepers” and “lazy river” to a reader like me who is not familiar with the terms. I appreciate it so much and I enjoyed reading it.❤️ have a great day.
You have wonderful nieces. 🌷
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Leaf peepers is a colloquial term that I had never heard until I moved to this area of the country.
There may be lazy rivers all around the world, but they might have a different name.
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Our lazy rivers refer to water parks where tubers can float.
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I found the term also applies to streams.
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Well, ya learn something new every day! I’m glad you got to visit with your nieces 🤗
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We have leaf peepers in our area too although most go north to the Pocono Mountains for maximum view!
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Do you call them leaf peepers?
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Yes we do.
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Glad to know that. We never spoke of leaf peepers in NY or TN.
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How wonderful that you had some company! Your picture is great!
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Thank you. We packed a lot in 2.25 hours.
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That’s wonderful!
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What a beautiful explain the words, such as leaf peepers and lazy river to like. I enjoyed reading it.
Beautiful photo with you nieces. Wherethey lives?
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My nieces live in the center of the state that I live in. I’m on the western edge of the state.
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Thank you so much!
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This year was the first year I heard of leaf peepers and of course, had to look it up! How delightful your nieces stopped to visit. I miss mine so much, not having seen them or my sis and bro for the last 4 years now. Perhaps this fall yet..!
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I hope you get to see your relatives this year.
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How wonderful to have a visit from your nieces. Pleased to hear you are keeping the house neat and tidy and up to Lise’s standards. LOL
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It is slowly dawning on people that David and I were never the problem.
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I thought perhaps this was so.
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Nice nieces and a clean garage? What more could you want! Adore the photo of you three together.
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Julie is good at doing selfies.
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Never heard of leaf-peeper, though I’ve been one. You have to interrupt to talk whenall the girls in my bunch get together.
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Great time with your nieces, Anne! I’d not heard of a lazy river in connection with tubing, that’s a good name for it!
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We haven’t been leaf peeping yet this year. Not too many mountains around here, but plenty of gorgeous leaves we need to get out and see!
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We took a drive this morning and did a bit of leaf-peeping too. The difference a week has made in the colors is amazing. It’s brilliant here in New Jersey today, sunshine and colors galore.
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Your trees are probably more brilliant than mine, but the changes are fun to watch.
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“Nice neices” has a certain ring to it doesn’t it? How nice to get together after their leaf peeping and get a nice photo to remember the visit. Kudos to you and David for keeping order in the house and garage since Lise went through and organized everything … send Lise here please as I sorely need organization.
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I wish I’d kept a list of everyone who would enjoy Lise’s services.
Right now I’m looking for flower vases. I know she let me keep a few.
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That’s funny – you could lure Lise back to the U.S. for a long time with all those folks needing her services. My mom had a rule about clothing – any new piece of clothing coming in, had to have a piece of clothing going out. I should adopt that theory for the entire house, maybe it would be harmonious living for me again because disorganization has hit an all-time low.
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I should throw away 10 things for every new item brought in. No, too much like work.
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I look around and am overwhelmed, but you don’t see me rushing to fix it. I had the news on tonight and a meteorologist predicted this very snowy and cold Winter and I decided I’m going to eke out every sunny day I can – this weekend in the 70s. I hate putting blinders on, but you remember those horrible NY Winters. They said January would be -10 to -30 below zero and February would have many snowstorms. I hope they are wrong.
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For your sake, I hope the forecasts are wrong.
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I hope so too – this week we are going from below average to above average in the course of one day. I heard Asheville will b 25 tomorrow morning. That is colder by 10 degrees than here!
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