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Comment on Home activities by andrealyeska

andrealyeska — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:29:08 +0000

Yay. Love the update. This is a sweet time, though sleep may be hard to come by. I’ve been thinking about you guys!

Comment on Vessel by andrealyeska

andrealyeska — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:15:06 +0000

Your usage of peril is really cracking me up!

Comment on Fresh Food by Lia

Lia — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:37:17 +0000

June– perhaps what makes our veggies so delicious is the difficulty with which they were grown! I can see how the coldframe carrots would seem silly from your perspective, though… I, too, remember dandelion-picking trips as a kid (sometimes even at county parks) but I think my parents stuck to using them in soup. Thanks for the reading recommendation! I tried to get to the full-text, but even my librarian wiles were unable to tease it from the internet!
Jennie– I’m sure you’ll see many more kid pictures in this venue!

Comment on Fresh Food by june

june — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:53:07 +0000

There is no such thing as a gratuitous baby photo. But your veggies made me laugh because we are having an early spring in Portland and the vegetation (including food goodies) are reaching out over the sidewalks, a bit strangling in their fulsomeness. Coldframe carrots remind me of how I tried to grow English ivy in Kansas….

The carrot leaves in the illustration are also quite delicious and silly (and false, but visually wonderful). A neighbor brought us a basket of beet greens a few days ago. We sauteed them with a bit of garlic; Jer was not fond of the result, but they reminded me very much of dandelion greens that my mother picked in the 1940s. Just the flavor — I remember the trips for picking, but I have no memory of eating them — just the delight of slightly bitter green taste, meaning spring.

I read John McPhee’s 4th Draft in the latest New Yorker and as someone who delights in words, I think you’d love it. I doubt you can read the whole thing with this link, but it’s a good start. Make Bo bring it to you from the library if you don’t subscribe:-) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/29/130429fa_fact_mcphee

Comment on Fresh Food by aladyinfrance

aladyinfrance — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:03:51 +0000

My favorite part of your post was the gratuitous baby photo.

Comment on An early flower by lady Jennie

lady Jennie — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:01:36 +0000

Oh yay! She simply couldn’t be more gorgeous.

I’m so happy Lia.

Comment on An early flower by juneu

juneu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:10:41 +0000

Even an old cynic like myself has to admire that baby in the first baby photo. In the last, you and Bo look like, um, new parents. The baby looks expectant:-) So good luck with the feeding — that can be a drag, since you just want it to all go smoothly so you can get back to sleep. But that too will pass — both the reluctance to work at getting the milk and the almost unbearable desire to sleep (the latter takes a bit longer).

Congrats to the three of you. Lovely name, lovely connotations. And the cry was clearly Not a matter of hormones — with all the other name-notions floating, the last one grounds her.

Comment on The (mythical) calm before the storm by june

june — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:19:14 +0000

Ah life. As you are getting to know it. Loved the “Vessels” and the suspense about whether we’d get to see you whole and full! We’re back in PDX and I’m having to redo my Google Reader Feed into something else ’cause Google has deleted it. Or put it on some cloud. So this is a test to see if it really works (the new feed, I mean).

hang in there (upside down, of course). This too will pass and then there will be new an exciting adventures to pass along to the rest of us. Of course, you’ll be too busy to do so, so better blog while you can (and that’s all the advice I’m going to give:-) )

Comment on The (mythical) calm before the storm by Lia

Lia — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:52:15 +0000

Interesting! I’ve read about moxibustion (burning moxa incense, made of dried mugwort) near the outer part of the little toes, right below the nail line. I have not done this, since I haven’t found any moxa for sale nearby. But squeezing the second toe sounds easier (if I can get Bo to do it for me, since my toes are a little hard to reach these days).

Comment on The (mythical) calm before the storm by Lady Jennie

Lady Jennie — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:09 +0000

As if you didn’t have enough advice already, our midwife said to squeeze the second toe (next to the big one) to turn a breech. I forgot how long and all that, but that’s what she said.

And … have FUN!