femina mosaic

Saturday, April 12, 2003

 
Good Lord! I just read the last entry and realized we sound like Ma and Pa Kettle.
freezengirl 12:54 AM

 
Today is my husbands birthday. O and our daughter will both come to this house to spend the night. I feel a bit silly how excited I feel about it. We have plans to spend the day working on putting in a vegetable garden. It will be a big job since the only location where we can put it is in tall grass right now. It is to dry to burn it off so we will weed whack it, mow it and see what we can manage from that point. I am going to be spending some time raking up the carpet of pine needles from all of the jack pine in our yard. We are going to grill something, and just enjoy the sun and each other.

I look around this place and I can see little signs of ownership growing. Not the we bought it so it is ours kind of ownership, but the mental leap of ownership by making your mark on it, settling in. I almost wept when I looked out through the kichen window last week and saw that my husband was organizing his shed and had a chair sitting outside the entrance to it. I call it "the I am the king of all I survey" chair, no self respecting farmer would be without one, even if he is without the farm.

Today I spent an hour or so in a local store picking out fishing tackle for O's birthday gift. And a tackle box. I don't know much about fishing so I asked an older fellow looking at tackle if he could recommend something. He was most obliging and even told me where some of the good spots were and where I could find the best bait. It was actually quite fun. O lent his tackle box to someone a few years ago and forgot to whom. He has been fretting every spring about not having any tackle and goes on this hunt all over the property for where it could have been left then refuses to buy another. It must be a guy thing. I don't even remember the last time he went fishing. He is looking foreward to going this summer though and I will make sure he does!














freezengirl 12:46 AM

Thursday, April 10, 2003

 
Many of us have been distressed about the war in Iraq and the things that are happening in our country today. It is so easy to become overwhelmed and to feel hopeless. If you need to feel that there is SOMETHING you can do, whatever your politics, then this link is for you. Red Cross . Tonight I soothed myself by planting two roses and sorting through my many packets of seeds. My gardens are barely created, and the vegetable garden must wait for a couple more weeks for the ground to thaw. Planting and helping to create beauty helps me to fight back and know that LIFE is precious and not to be squandered.
freezengirl 12:44 AM

 
Yesterday I opened my email and there was an attachment to one of the posts. It was pictures of the ultrasound of my newest niece or nephew. Wow! What a wonderful way to start the day! My sister is older, so an amniocentices was advised. I am happy to report to the world that mama and baby are doing fine! I also appreciate the modern technology that made this pregnancy possible and the pictures of the baby.

resource for genetic counseling and March of Dimes
freezengirl 12:30 AM