i have to be off to go to the gym to torture myself in the name of good health, so this is just a quickie update slice-o-life:
i've been sewing stuff, which is so fun and i'm noticing a lot of improvement in my skills (yay!) stuff i've sewed lately: bibs, pants, crayon roll-ups, zip pouches, clutches, and baskets. oh, and a flag for vesta to decorate for the fort she is building with ronan and hazel in the woods. some pictures on flickr, more to come. and another oh yeah--a shopping bag with veggie appliques to donate to the kindtree auction.
i've been working on more home improvement projects (and purchases): i moved the big bookshelf from the kitchen to the bedroom (i'm sewing the fabric baskets for this shelf to store jubal's clothes in--our room is too small to fit a dresser AND a king sized bed). i put up four foot pine board shelves in the kitchen to hold the extra gallon jars and canned goods that won't fit in our cupboards--vesta and i did this all by ourselves and it was so rewarding--we ROCKED! we can find studs and drill things and make stuff level, woohoo! lots of various moving shelves and cubbies around to hold toys and cook books and whatnot. rodney started putting in posts for the new garden fences---yay! yay! yay! it's gonna look so good and keep the dang dog from digging up my seedlings. and we picked out a new mattress for ourselves--this is such a treat for us! we picked out an englander natural model with inner spring coils and a latex core, bamboo topper with an extra layer of latex foam, plus extra lumbar support. my back is dancing in anticipation. we'll have it in a few days and i am SO EXCITED!
oh my, there is lots more to tell, but if we don't get to the gym soon we'll turn into pumpkins. the gym is feeling so awesome lately, by the way. i recommend it to anyone feeling sluggish or burned out, it really helps and i love being left wobbly and worked, but feeling so strong.
gratitude abounds for the strength of the human body and spirit, clean water to drink, fertile ground to grow in, the fun to be had with children, and resilience.
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an excerpt from a work-in-progress
they ate breakfast together: an omlettle he made filled with spinach and cream cheese and tomatoes and a bagel they split with salmon and more of the cream cheese and some capers she went back to the fridge for. they amused themselves discussing what capers are and how they came to be in jars at upscale markets for them to buy and eat on bagels with salmon. he liked to think they came from the sea somehow, and she assured him they were really little berries of some sort of fragrant bush. she fished the capers out of the tall jar as they talked and ate more than usual, something about their brininess described a hunger for her that she didn’t know she had, and then filled it. they drank steaming mugs of rich coffee with cream (and two sugars in his). she loaded the dishwasher and wiped off the counter while he cleaned the coffeegrounds and little spills from the coffee pot. the sun shone cleanly into their white kitchen and onto their bodies as they moved about their tasks and then they kissed one another and left for work, him to an office in town and her upstairs to her office where she worked as a freelance ad designer. it was a perfect morning. it was the perfect morning.
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