We didn't wake up to it. But things still turned white. Hurrah! Merry Christmas!Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Hope everyone is having a good time with friends and family.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Citizen forestry
I'm not feeling particularly wordy tonight. By which I mean I'm not feeling particularly clever with my words, not that I can't think up any. Onward disjointed, generic sounding ramblishness! Ah:
We headed up to the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest this weekend to find a Christmas tree. Usually we pick one up on Bainbridge during the Thanksgiving weekend, but we hosted the Turkey Day in Bellingham, and so had to find a tree...alternatively.
We aren't at all interested in spending $50 on a dead plant, so we headed up to the National Forest, because for $10 you can cut any tree you want under 12 feet. Of course, that depends on finding one. Part of that $50, that's called "convenience."
We wandered for a long while (actually, we drove around for a long while), searching for promising groves. We saw a lot of hemlocks and cedars, but very few firs. If it wasn't for Jill and Paul and their chocolate chip cookies, we may have gotten discouraged.
Eventually we did find and area that had been clear-cut long before, and had many firs for the choosing. So we tromped around for a while until we found the perfect one.
And of course, by "perfect" I mean the least not perfect.
Adam 1, Nature 0
It's a bit Charlie Brownish. Very few branches and hardly any strong ones. Lots of ornaments. Which would be great, except there are almost no branches without ornaments, which I've decided looks not ordinary. It's nice enough, though. It looks like a $10 tree. Or maybe $15. There are probably better trees out there, but we didn't see them. It's hard when the tree farm is 1,724,229 randomly planted acres.
I'm done writing words now. Check out that post below! Yow!
We headed up to the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest this weekend to find a Christmas tree. Usually we pick one up on Bainbridge during the Thanksgiving weekend, but we hosted the Turkey Day in Bellingham, and so had to find a tree...alternatively.
We aren't at all interested in spending $50 on a dead plant, so we headed up to the National Forest, because for $10 you can cut any tree you want under 12 feet. Of course, that depends on finding one. Part of that $50, that's called "convenience."
We wandered for a long while (actually, we drove around for a long while), searching for promising groves. We saw a lot of hemlocks and cedars, but very few firs. If it wasn't for Jill and Paul and their chocolate chip cookies, we may have gotten discouraged.
Eventually we did find and area that had been clear-cut long before, and had many firs for the choosing. So we tromped around for a while until we found the perfect one.
And of course, by "perfect" I mean the least not perfect.
Adam 1, Nature 0
It's a bit Charlie Brownish. Very few branches and hardly any strong ones. Lots of ornaments. Which would be great, except there are almost no branches without ornaments, which I've decided looks not ordinary. It's nice enough, though. It looks like a $10 tree. Or maybe $15. There are probably better trees out there, but we didn't see them. It's hard when the tree farm is 1,724,229 randomly planted acres.I'm done writing words now. Check out that post below! Yow!
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Ba-bum Ba-bum Ba-bum Ba-bum
That is the sound of a heart beat beating 150 times per minute...of a baby inside of me! Yes, I am excited to announce to the cyber-world that I am pregnant! Adam and I are super excited! I am almost 12 weeks along, or 3 months. It will be due around June 24th. Perfect timing for school to be done :-) We will keep you informed with all the exciting growth and changes.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
How's today then?
10:46 am
Thanksgiving in Bellingham. My family, plus my Aunt Pam and Erin's Aunt Mary. Good times and good food.
Last weekend, Paul came and helped me mud and tape the sheetrock in the stairwell room. Paul being the expert. Me being the bungler. But it's looking pretty good. Of course, I haven't worked on it since then...
Also built the big door for Gryffin's bathroom. So it's closer to not being not done.
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