Sewing

Note my lovely model's skirt. Made in a last minute flurry before we hit the road. I worried that she would have trouble crawling around or that she would get lots of scratches on her legs. Worry is such a pointless excercise. It was long enough she could crawl around wherever she wanted (which was not always where I wanted) and it protected her legs. I think I'll make her a few more as this long legged girl doesn't have many dresses that really cover those little legs. Show and tell another time.

The Welcome Home Sunflowers

From such a small seed.

PS

Jess look for a little package coming soon to a mailbox near you!

What We've Been Up To

Talking on the phone

Cutting up meat

Harvesting carrots, cabbage, kohlrabi, and zucchini (an unusal Japanese vegetable--didn't you know?!)












Fishing





Bike Riding (with momentary pauses to look at birds, airplanes and other flying objects going by)

And you?

I mentioned we went on a trip recently. At our 2nd overnight stop my camera died (thank you sand). So I missed taking pictures of family and friends, pictures of my beautiful sister's wedding, Mowgli feeding birds, and lots of other fun things. However, I did get a few fun things recorded in visual form:

Cloud Watching

Do you see the fish?

Beach

Walking

And crawling

Not to mention a few very short "hikes".

This one through the "Spooky Woods"


You learn a lot about yourself and your children when you travel to places that seem familiar to you, but are not to them. On our first "trek" into a forest Mowg asked, "What is that on the trees?!" I looked for a bird or some other creature. It took me a few minutes to realize he was talking about the moss. So common place to me and so unusual to him. Forest's are spooky to him and so peaceful to me. There is so much that "place" does to build a person.

Embroidered Friendship

Tonight I watched my tiny one trace the stitches her great grandmother had embroidered on a table cloth. This after she continually "toasted" friendship to her Dad, brother and me. There is nothing like clinking your glass to a sippy cup "Friends!" How I love this little ritual her brother started. Though she doesn't say the words the feeling is there. Oh how I hope that friendship between the four of us will continue to grow forever. I hope too that those little connections of tableclothes and cups will forge strong bonds. I have to tell you about that table cloth. I love it. It was given to us by my Aunt and Uncle as a wedding gift. It is extrodinary in two ways: 1. My Grandmother is gone and it helped me feel her presence on that important day in my life. 2. My Grandmother was going to get rid of that tablecloth because it had a stain on it. My Aunt rescued it because of all the work Grandma had done on it. It's square with geese and strawberries embroidered in a square in the center. Then there are details of strawberries in the corners. One of these corners may carry a pizza sauce stain after tonight. I will treasure it all the more if it does because those tiny fingers touched the thread that her Great-Grandmother wove into the fabric long before she was born. Two women I love.

Return

We returned from a trip recently. I expected to find a dried up garden, the piles I'd left in the house. It had been a long day in cramped space and before I got out of the car a lovely lemon colored flower caught my eye. It was a sun flower from Britt's Garden (the one that was to grow up around the tipi poles). What a delightful welcome! Then the next day to our delight we discovered that we did indeed have some things to harvest. Not the harvest we'd hoped to fill our freezer with, but a harvest none-the-less. Kolrabi, carrots, green beans, potatoes, and even one cucumber. Hope your transition to fall is a good one!