Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

1.26.2012

sometimes...



... your backyard can be the perfect little getaway.

... this rain that i often wish would go away surprises me with the beauty it leaves behind.

... a single afternoon can take all the stress and worry that's been cluttering up your brain and put things back into perspective.

... i just need to stand very still and quiet, take a deep breath and get swept up in the good.


3.21.2011

stormy weather.




jake's family lives on a small farm in washington and we love to spend time there.
this weekend we had plans to go and have a calm, relaxing few days together, just take 
it easy because a few of us were feeling a little under the weather...

speaking of weather, ours has been on the erratic side of care recently and we woke up sunday
to impressively strong winds. watching the trees move was kind of exciting at first and then
unsettling once you realized just how much and how fast they were moving.
an hour or so into watching the wind, jake went outside to bring up some wood for the stove
when he saw that one of the giant locust trees in the backyard had fallen over on top of 
the chicken coup. this is the part where our calm relaxing day turns into a lot of hard work
and a house full of exhausted people. so, not exactly what we'd all had in mind, but
it was still a pretty great day, no people or animals were harmed and the damage to the coup 
is so much less than it could have been if the tree had fallen a few inches differently than it did.

as far as falling trees go, we got pretty lucky.
and in the next week or two, we've got a LOT of wood to cut and stack!


2.24.2011

daily photo(s):


it snowed today in portland. twice.





it wasn't much, but it was ours.
and the sun was shining all afternoon.
it felt wonderful to be outside.
we built a tiny snowman on the deck and a small snowman in the yard.
we used nearly all of the snow we had, but then more came later
so the yard looks pretty again.


1.03.2009

2008 wrap-up!

we had an interesting last few weeks of 2008, here in portland. we had some birthdays, a flood, more snow than oregon has seen in 30+ years and as a result - two weeks of being snowed in (but we were all together and we watched lots of really good movies and some duds too), lots of brewing beer & more holiday gift knitting than we've done in the last three years combined.

we're excited about 2009, we've got plans and ideas and new patterns... stay tuned, more details to come! happy new year!!!
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