spent the day on the will heal farm with great friends and family

and it was EXACTLY what we needed. it just feels good to be out in the country. to stare at the stars and smell the yarrow. it was fantastic. incredible food including pork, salad, black bean and corn salsa, chips, garlic bread, sparkling juice drinks and incredible berry crumble. with rice dream and ice cream. yummers! the kids rode their bikes to the lake and swam, the adults sat and chatted. it was so good to sit with people with whom i have tons in common, i didnt have to explain things too. it jsut felt good, ya know?

tomorrow i start packing. tuesday we leave town for texas. the little border town my dad lives in will be the great vacation of the season. airlines! here i come, treat me nice kay?

moving. and moving.

well, almost all my books are packed. and going into storage at the new house. NOT because there isn't room but because we can take out one box at a time and put them anyway after we get the bookshelves put up. without boxes of books laying around.

i have all my winter clothing packed as well. and most of my in season clothing. i have just enough out to function for the next month. all my c.d.'s are packed which was a huge ordeal given i did a radio station for while and have a monster collection. the only ones i left out were then ten in the car.

today i finish off the one shelf of books i haven't packed yet.

in packing for the great move of 2010 i have realized how much stuff i own. and really i have gotten given away literally two hoses worth of stuff in the last two years. somehow though its getting closer. getting better. getting less.

birthday bash

well, today i am just worn clean out. kidlet was invited to a birthday party and the local ginormous water park. packed full of fun with pizza and cake. he won a huge pile of game tickets and bought some kid of guy. then the birthday child came over here to spend the night. i connected sooo much with birthday childs mom i am kinda surprised. she is a fabulous lady. we have tons in common, and not just the usual ohhh you have a kid too stuff but like "oh really?! your crazy too?" plus she is a big ol lezzie. which means, and i told her this, that i am less of a freak at the kids' school. i gotta say that makes me happy. usually i am the weirdest one. not this time. of course the fundie christians who make up about half the schools population just deny deny deny she is lez. they just think ohhh what a nice roommate you have. teehee. the water park reeked of chlorine. i cannot believe anyone uses that on their clothing. the stank is unreal.

things are good. still broke. still have more animals then (i do believe) is legally allowed. and still waiting for the bank to get their collective heads out of their collective asses about getting the new house.

first yard sale day of the season

and was it beautiful. the perfect day for yard sale-ing. not too windy or hot. or cold. sunny and a whole group of sales in one hood. fantastic.

best of all i got some stuff i actually needed, as opposed to previous years when i got STUFF for STUFF'S sake. instead i was very careful, spent very little money and really scored.

i got a blender, mine is making this very very loud crunching, grinding noise when i use it. and it is starting to spew black bits out the bottom. i think its dying. so today i found a new to me blender 3.00 dollars with a glass base. old style. it remind me of my gramma's kitchen which had the unfortunate color choices of avocado green and orange with yellow. very very ugly. the blender how ever is perfect! loves it. i also got a rust orange sweatshirt, woman's cut but still comfy. 100% cotton. and a very cute made in india skirt with a nice print in white. very good for summer and with tights will take me into fall. the color goes with tons in my small wardrobe. i got a couple of magazines too. just for easy reading.

this downsizing thing is hard to put together with my love of garage sales. but i figured something out. replace with better and for every one thing i buy or receive get rid on one or two things. so far so good. and i keep going with the big give-away because... well, i dont want to move it all. i want to move and to own only the belongings i truely love or actually need.

i love making stuff, i'd be happy making just about anything.

so along with my etsy store sales i have been making fairy wings, sourdough starter and fairy bracelets, along with several other things. saturday i started my sourdough mother. and ya know how much mothers rock. well this one is doing her thing on my kitchen counter. she is hidden from ickiness by a thin kitchen towel. she smells like guinness and bubbles at me frequently. i love the anticipation of sourdough waffles (how will i wait a week?) today i took photos of my sourdough mother, but to be honest... i spent last night in the e.r with d.s.'s dad. he put the hurt on the pad between his thumb and forefinger. he sliced it open so his thumb and forefinger are no longer attached. 12 stitches. and hello? why do these things always happen at 11:30 at night? is it so at 4:30 when you finally crawl into bed you truely truely appriciate it? it must be something like that.

for my witchery in the kitchen i used rosemary last night for our chicken stew easy peasy. one small organic chicken (yes, i buy organic meat, yes we eat less meat because of the cost, win win.) sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, stock, water, salt and pepper, and rosemary. cook say two hours in the pot, or several hours in the crock pot. fantastic i say.

i hate mother's day.

well...maybe hate is a strong word but all those made up bullshit holidays (that would be pretty much all of them wouldnt it? but i mean the ones falsely created ala admin. assistants day, mothers day, what have you.)

but for the sake of my sanity it is easier to smile thru it then to try to change the entire system. really, tried doing that big giant fail. but todays mothers day just kinda sucked ass, kidlet is being rude. which is not entirely out of his natural realm, he is after all an american teenager. god help me. but damn today he was excpetionally rude. but good thing is his dad was smart enough to stop by the local school plant sale and get me a plant for kidlet to bring home. smart man that one. now.

and older child who isnt mine but whom i raised also came by. meant the world to me.

at least soon it will be "the time in which child goes to his room and does not come back out unless there is bleeding or fire" otherwise known as bedtime. cannot come soon enough. i so need the break.

i wonder if the adhd/add medications the therapist and dr. sya he needs would help or is it jsut a gateway drug?

gardening and must post more then once a month.

today i planted chamomile, tomatoes two kinds, and parsley. it felt so good just to put my hands in the earth. i used a planter so they could be decorative too. the plants are sitting next to the front steps. i cant wait until stuff starts to bloom.

more planting tomorrow. boy seeds have really gone up in price. but totally worth it still. i also raked the front yard, i didnt put the yard waste into bags but instead i wait to rake until the city is going to do the annual street sweeping and rake the leaves and other stuff into the street. i figure before so many humans lived here many many more leaves and small branches fell into the river...

i dont really have a list from year to year of what i am planting. i have a general idea but not a plotted out excell sheet of what varieties or anything. so my list generally is things that look pretty at the various plants sales i go to. as a result i have like ten varieties of lavender, basil and echinacea. one or two pumpkins, one or two chamomile, two or three tomatoes, a huge strawberry patch, three kinds of roses, two squash, and a buncha other plants.

this is the time of year that makes up for winter, or hmmm... rather almost makes up for winter. almost.