cup running over

The summer is over. Record rain on Friday and probably today too. This is about a month earlier than we usually start fall weather. The skiers and snowboarders are rejoicing though...thinking snow and winter fun.

I've made a list of the things that need to get done by winter - buy oil for the furnace, clean the vents out, find the winter clothes. It's a little shocking, this early fall, but I'm still coasting a little on the summer, trying to keep that easy feeling.

L and I had breakfast this morning with GLinda and Auntie Gretchen. She had fun. Meals out were a problem for awhile so we stopped going out. It's exciting to think that we can go out to eat again, without dramatics.

When it stops raining for a moment today I'm going to rush out and buzz around (did I mention I'm sick and on pseudoephidrine?). This picture is of better times on Lusted Lady Beach, Sandy River, y'all!

many and varied

will this work, this blog? will I be a blogger?

oh life...

I've been alone and eating english muffin turkey melts with fresh tomatoes and basil. from the garden. and sometimes the flowers from my zucchini plants - which are...are they not?...the most gentle beautiful vegetables there are.

Speaking of beautiful vegetables, here's some more:
Lemon cucumbers the size of key limes;
Ambitious horseradish I will never eat;
The berries!;
The pepper plants finally fleshing out;
And of course the beets.

L (7 months old) ate fig and yogurt tonight and some english muffin too.

This whole post about food? I think it will stop when I stop breastfeeding. Otherwise, woo! I eat alot.

my first day

on a blog. It seems fun....but then it's hard to even imagine who might read this. Or that writing and writing and writing might go on and then vanish in a nanosecond or something. I think I will just write to myself already - because at this point really no one is reading this. So, this is where I am today: a physical therapy appointment for some perineal massage (which gets less and less embarrassing the older my kid gets), some errands including picking up books about building porches at the library ($17.50 how did that happen?), pick up my mom and daughter from swim lessons (it's raining and they don't want to walk home), home for some leftover eating and netflix grazing (baby sleeping), take my mom to the airport (to go sailing with her boyfriend in a very small boat), UPS store to send work product overnight, DMV to register new (used) minivan, home for gardening, wine drinking, talking to husband on the phone, feeding Xena two some squash and starting this blog.