A new kind of job

I quit my job last week. Pretty fantastic feeling! It was more difficult than I expected to fit 10 hours of work in a week…and not because the work is hard but because my head just isn’t in it. I want to spend my time raising Mira and operating our little homestead. I have a [...]

Squabbling

The cover of this week’s New Yorker is both hysterical and awesome.

Nap time

Garland!

I had a plan to decorate over Mira’s crib with a felt garland and after a couple of weeks of cutting circles and a few nights of sewing I got it done. I am really happy with how it turned out!! Way more interesting than a boring mobile that just goes round and round. She [...]

A (chilly) weekend on the coast

We spent last weekend on the Oregon Coast, at Cape Lookout State Park, with a couple of good friends. When we left Portland, at around 5 pm on Friday, the temperature in Portland was close to 90F. When we arrived at Cape Lookout a couple of hours later, the temperature on the coast was 51F. [...]

Wide Angles

We are getting ready to embark on some major remodel work here around the house. First up is having the two bedroom windows removed to be stripped, repaired, and then rehung so they operate as double hung windows (they have long since been painted shut). Then we are having the paint stripped off all the [...]

Names in utero

The baby has numerous names right now, no one name has stuck. And hey, it’s fun to mix it up. So far we’ve been calling the little bugger: MiMo (short for mini-Moser) Tater tot Tater Li’l bean Morgan is feeling movement now! Very exciting. The baby is really active, especially after Morgan eats. It’s during [...]

Adding a page to our blog in honor of the baby

Dave and I have started the week by week photo documentation of my waistline expanding. I felt inspired today to have the pictures taken in the garden so that each week you can see me and the baby grow as well as my garden. We have just started the major work of getting each bed [...]

South America tag cloud

I’m addicted to tag clouds.

Introducing the Untamed Shrew

My sister Kate is now an official bad ass. In the last few months, she tried out for a local roller derby team, and made the cut! She’s now skating for the Guns N Rollers. We’re super proud of her for making the team! Kate’s derby name is the Untamed Shrew, a reference to the [...]