Back online and waiting for spring

I’m am back with a cell card attached to the laptop. As it turned out there were no viable internet options for our house, so it took some time to work out an option that would work.

There is much to tell,  over the last couple of monthes that I have been absent.  We have moved officially onto our land and into our house although there are still many small projects on the inside that are waiting to be done.  The Pacific Northwest has experienced its 7th snowiest winter in recorded history.  The mayor of this small town who has lived here since the 30’s said she had never seen so much snow.  For the last three weeks I have been taunted with receding snow patches that reveal the grass and warm days followed by days of light snow that reblanket the ground with white.  Then the snow begins to melt away and the weather warms, and the again more snow.  Its only hard because I am so anxious to begin work on the outside of the house.  There is an acre of blackberry bushes to remove.  Piles of trash hidden amongst them from the previous owners to be discarded and a goat paddock to fence and goats to buy. 

Dylan spent a brave day out in the most strange and varied weather yesterday repairing and rebuilding the rotted chicken coop on the land.  It hailed, snowed, sleeted, shone, and blew gusty winds on him.  But he insured that the four pretty ladies that we have brought into our family would have a nice warm and safe place to stay and lay.  For a man who has little experience working with tools or building the last few monthes have really given him a step up and he pieced together that coop with no problems at all.  I was very proud.

The biggest news of course is that I am pregnant for the first time.  I am now just about 13 weeks into it and grateful to be out of that first trimester.  I wasn’t plagued by throwing up but I sure felt awful, sick, nauseous, depressed, you name it.  My energy levels have started returning and I am noticing the first signs of a protruding belly.  I had written a blog post noting that I was hoping to conceive a new energy and a new head space on the solstice.  It seems that I took that literally and on our first “try” found myself gleefully pregnant. 

My sister spent the whole weekend with and it was so wonderful to get so much time with her.  We did lots of house work and she did more then her fair share of chores for me, which was so nice.  On Saturday we engaged our roots of Indian cooking and made an Indian feast of Cauliflower Kofta  with a tomato/piima sauce, whole wheat chapatis and cilantro/coconut/almond/yogurt chutney.  It was a process but it was sooo worth it.  We did a bit of spinning and troubleshooting with our wheels, went for walk up the Sauk river even though it rained/snowed on us and had fresh egg omelets from our new hens it the morning.  It was a wonderful weekend.