It's busy. No lie. Whoever said this was the slow time of year had no idea. It's not just sitting around watching American Idol and Glee on tv in the evening. First there's the regular, the mundane that still must go on: finding firewood and building fires, feeding the chickens, grooming the dog. Add to that the on-going projects: working on the carport (forever), building a new gate for the nut grove, and getting ready for another year in the garden.
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| Greenhouse veggie starts |
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| bamboo and willow gate |
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| where gate will go (after deer trashed the last one) |
There are the regular meetings at the Ag Resource Committee for Roger, yoga for me, plus the burgeoning community and volunteer involvement: helping to move the co-op into the larger building, rejoining the Grange (I'm now the "Grace" Pomona), Winter Farmers Market, Soroptimist Fundraisers, and on and on. Now that I'm the SJ Island rep for the Textile Guild I have board meetings on the ferry, monthly meetings at the library, and quarterly meetings on the different islands-last month on Shaw- to attend.
Then there are the classes. Right now, Roger is attending a two day class called Holistic Management for Farming. holistic management link Last weekend I took a two day willow class from Katherine Lewis of Dunbar Gardens of Skagit County.Dunbar Garden Website My friend Monique from Seattle joined us and did a great job with her very first basket.
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| That's Monique in front row on the far right |
And I attended an amazing class on double weave in January from an expert from Santa Fe, Jennifer Moore. Here is her website: http://www.doubleweaver.com/workshops.html This class involved going to Shaw to borrow a loom, going to Orcas to warp the loom, then three days of ferry riding to attend the class on Orcas, then returning the loom to Shaw.
And then there is the ever present looking for signs that winter will end soon and Spring will begin. It is 34 degrees outside and sunny. A walk around the place finds that the daffodils are about six inches high, the hellebores and heather are blooming, the Indian Plum is leafing out, and I am "forcing" two vases of red flowering currants to bloom in the house. Four more weeks until the Spring Equinox.
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Your winter sounds great - full of amazing activities as your life always is. Don't wish winter away, just because you don't like the cold. It is always too short, and it seems like life is always rushing forward to something else whether we like the present or not. Might as well revel in the present, don't you think? I love the "board meetings on the ferry." What a great idea. How many organizations can have board meetings where sea lions, Orcas, sea birds, and gem-like islands, go slipping by in the background? And your blue and white weaving from the double weave workshop is fabulous. I really hope to see you soon.
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