campin :)

Hello there,

   Just a joyful announcement of camping tonight at Bainbridge Island with Sarah... we're taking our packs on our bikes, ridin' to the ferries and then to a campsite on the island... :)  Just excited about it!  ...but the sunshine is callin' me out right now so I must go.

love

mn

 

grateful list:

 

-Eckhart Tolle's book that was given to all of the assistants at our meeting today

 

-Barbara Kinsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle ... quotes to follow some day soon...

 

-sign language class

 

-clean water

 

-music-Sarah just got a banjo, and I'm delighted to have another friend in the area who will be pickin!

 

-the song "Ella Mae" by Greg Brown.  On his tribute album his daughters cover it.  It's no shocker why a song sung by three sisters about redwings returning tugs on my heart after hugging my sisters and seeing redwings last week in Ohio.  It's what I'm learning on the banjo right now.  It speaks of the nature of families and life in the country and all things simple and wonderful therein. 

 

-a working bike!  it makes this bike campout possible, heck yeah!

 

-Our little garden!  I just planted some green onions last night.  The update is: we've got a tire of mint for tea, some mint clippings growing roots, one little broccoli, our salad greens are happy little things and we've got another tire for them too.  Our basil wasn't happy with the cold, so we plan to buy a few small plants for that tire.  Our 'mators are growin' too, but they're still inside so we can pamper them.  Later this weekend we've got plans for starting our potato tire stack and planting nastertum.  We're having a garden party on the 4th and we hope to move some of the native blackberries beside the house out to our front patio patch.  In other exciting plant news-the bedbug extermination didn't kill all of our houseplants!  Some are bouncing back, hooray!