Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Introducing… And the flavours of home
Introducing Mewes and Ramona (the boy.) I have wanted a kitten all my life and I’ve never had the opportunity or the allowance to fulfill this dream. When we moved into our cabin, we had immediate neighbours. The mice. So we knew kittens were in quick order. We went to pick up a “herd” of [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Food,Growing by Amanda
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Expectations
Expectations get me into a lot of trouble. This encompasses expectations of myself, to be better, thinner, smarter, more accomplished, as well as expectations of my husband to accomplish more, to expectations of my friends to give me lots of attention etc. This is so dangerous. When I expect something, I am often disappointed. Expectations [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in General,Musings by Amanda
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Imagine if you will, souls connected, unravelling butterflies, and strange friends
Imagine if you will, souls that are inescapably connected even though their lives do not parallel. And the wonder of how people pass in and out of your life. Seasons and times for people and places. I have a friend that is just returning in a month from Chile. She is sad to leave as [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Friends by Amanda
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Sweet Abandon
As I was walking to work this morning, I noticed a very impressive climbing tree on the side of the arod. It was a big cedar tree, and then I wondered to myself, when was the last time I climbed a tree? When I was a child, I could not understand how adults forgot to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Play by Amanda
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Adventures That Knit us Together
This is the token update for the giant pumpkin that we got from P.E.I from Laura Jane at Whimfield. Apparently pumpkins off this plant can get to be 1100 lbs. I don’t know if we in our limited knowledge will ever attain such gi-normous glamour but we’ll see how she does. What shall we name [...]