The start of August

Peaches with juice spilling on the soapstone when we cut them; blueberries fat and sweet; cinnamon swirl toast from the farmer’s market, hot with butter. Summer mornings make me happy. We sit around sipping coffee, flipping through various papers, making each other laugh. It’s been an entire week of sunshine. This means: I’m finally starting […]

Weekend mosaic

A trip to the farmer’s market yesterday; fresh baby artichokes, the sweetest cherry tomatoes, currants, and fresh-baked bread. Wandering amidst stalls of blue hand thrown bowls, golden bouquets of sunflowers, savory samosas, and throngs of kids and dogs. Then sore muscles and satisfaction: finishing the hen house and putting in ten-foot posts for the garden […]

These are the days

We ate dinner outdoors, breaded chicken, fresh snap peas, homemade French fries; and then walked up the road to the neighbor’s pond, the three of us and a red wagon. Sitting out on the slender plank dock, frogs began to call back and forth across the still water. Above us, swallows swooped low for insects.
We […]

Growing

They’re both getting so big: the boy, and the chicks!

Tangible moments

We are wrapped in summer now; heat pressing in at 9 a.m., the mountains obscured by a soft haze, and the woods verdant with foliage. Along the mown paths that we’ve cut through the meadows, black-eyed-Susans and daises flutter like prayer flags. Tiny wild strawberries hide under delicate serrated trios of leaves, and we squat […]

New Arrivals

Fluffy, tiny tufts of dandilion fuzz now live in a box in my garage. I’m smitten.

can’t help myself: a picture post

The garden, underway. Sore arms & DH has a sunburn. Bean played all afternoon with his tractor in the newly tilled dirt. A long way before raised beds and fence posts, but closer than we were. So good to be outside. So good to have a man who, because he know’s my heart is set […]

4 days off

have made all the difference.
It always stuns me when I realize how entirely a lack of sleep and stress affect my life. How I feel completely altered, weaker, fragile at the center like a soft-boiled egg with days-on-end of stress and poor sleep; and then after a few days of extra naps and time spent […]

Day by day

Saturday: It hit me in the middle of the night, up again, one more time, because of the small inconsolable wailing and flailing of a sharp elbow having, night terror dreaming, teething Bean, that I was officially one step away from going insane.
I told DH as much, in a whimpering whisper, having already burst […]

Sometimes I realize just how lucky I am:

Exhibit A

Exhibit B
(I am totally aware that he looks like a little urchin in this pic.
As he put it:”I got some CRUD on my face.”
Don’t ask me where he learned that.)