Snow? ! !

We have snow (first time this winter), it started at 3 this morning and is still coming down at noon.  Everett was lost in a white out for a while, we probably accumulated a couple inches.

A gray day ...... still beautiful!

Waiting to leave one of the most beautiful places (to me) that I visit regularly!

Mother Earth News Fair

Went to Puyallup, Wa for the Mother Earth News Fair and in order of what blew my mind:

• the draft horses who logs with their owner - demonstration,  WOW, and the portable saw mill
• the fibers information - spinning, TOUCHING, absorbing knowledge
• the plate of sample cheese (I am still nibbling on) mostly soft with rinds Mmmm, Mmmmmm
• lecture - rotation of pastures, wow! so do-able.  (I think lazy comes to mind if this isn't incorporated into animal husbandry), this will be used in the future!

I thoroughly enjoyed browsing and learning new information, thank you SO MUCH !

This has been a GOOD weekend with family and sad because my son in law is going to Iraq for a year. Bittersweet, hard to wrap my mind around it and this will be very hard on his family.  I'm very glad we can be there for them.

We also went to the Nisqually Estuary with the grandkids and had a great walk with them.  They love nature and are very inquisitive.

Favorite place!

                                                                                    


Just some photos from the most beautiful place on earth (to me)

I was playing around with composition, which I know nothing about.  I have fun and photos  please me, that's the important part!

Dreams or not?

My dreams of the future always seem to get knocked back into reality. So I really want the impossible? Maybe so. I just want some land and an okay house. The land is the most important part. But I am half of a whole. And that half puts up too many obstacles. I dream of gardens, chickens, goats and horses But the land is what we need for the dreams to come true. Improving other peoples properties is fruitless because when you rent leaving all the HARD work is heartbreaking. I have had to do this before. So, here it is spring and I want to dig and plant and improve........... what, a rental. I work hard enough to have the 'American Dream'. After all these years, I feel the government and society no longer support this ideal! Been feeling a bit blah since the Japanese situation, It bothers me that governments don't think of the consequences of their decisions (nuclear plants, etc), definitely our own government thinks nothing of their own people! We are nothing!