orientating the self

buds are forming on the leaves everywhere.  i went to an awesome nursery a few towns over with c's mom and aunt.  i came home with chinese cabbage and some bell pepper starts, a salvia that's w/ white flowers and an aloe and begonia for inside the house.  oh and a cactus that has two flowering buds on it.  god i hope it blooms! we celebrated our iris' 2nd b-day this past saturday with the fam.

iris recieved an awesome present for iris the other day from our lovely, freakin' rad friends luke and risa over in san francisco!  we love and miss you guys IMMENSELY!

yesterday we were given tons of rhubarb and chives, below.




also, did a couple paintings since my previous painting is now finished.  still tending to all the starts we got going from seed indoors but we hope to get them into our plot soon.  like this week!  

below:  our sunroom and it's occupants.


and other stuff




above and below photo:  the starters we planted from seed alive and well.


below:  gift from luke and risa for iris' b-day.



below, old photo of luke and risa from the very first days of our campouts.



our garden plot at c's grandma's house, below.



spring is here!

and the new paintings.




tons to catch up on around these parts so see you soon!  oh and thank you very much c's aunt nancy for the succulents! (below)




and


stuck in my head from long, long ago.  but it's alright.  have a sweet day.

quick trips and b-days...

Man!  So here is my update in regards to our Minneapolis trip dear blog.  We saw turkeys in the parking lot of our breakfast stop just cruising around they were.  Then we headed into the city after a late night of hotel hunting and what not we were pretty bleary-eyed.  So I snapped photos of the town and off to see the Legos we went.  The Mall of America is nuts, basically.  E-Man didn't want to ride any of the coasters yet but he was pumped about examining Legos and Lego-sets so other than that we basically spent time meandering about the craziness.  We did a lot of pit stops for shopping oriented matters that we can't really accomplish here in our part of the world.  Unfortunately, we didn't even get to eat at any of the restaurants that I had hoped to since I ended up finding and making a list of them before hand.  

Then it was C's father's b-day on Saturday.  A sweet party it was indeed.

And lastly the Christmas Cactus flower in it's glory and our new fern.  Oh and C made sourdough with the wheat flour starter this week.  We have been making quite a few things weekly from scratch since moving here.  Things like large batches of seitan, sourdough loaves and vanilla soymilk.  It keeps us on our toes for sure.

and

above doll photo via weirdfriends

and

Making Pottery photo via San Diego archives.  

These last two photos are definitely related to things on my mind as of late.  On a happy note I think the colder days might be on their way out for real this time, thank you snow!