Wednesday, June 17, 2009
one week
Well, we leave for a week in Portland one week from today. My big sister is getting MARRIED! yay! We'll fly in Wednesday night, have a bridal shower on Thursday, Bachelorette Party on Friday, rehearsal on Saturday, Wedding on Sunday, recover on Monday and fly back to Providence on Tuesday! Whew!Anyway, things have been BUSY here! The weather keeps going back and forth between rain and sun . . . I am really just hoping for nice spring weather - we haven't really even had spring yet and it is June! It was nice today, but is supposed to rain all the rest of the week.
On a recent sunny day, Jon, our friend Todd and I rode our bikes out on the East Bay Bike Path. This bike path goes along the bay for at least 13 miles and I believe it ends at Colt State Park in Bristol - the beach! We probably only rode about 3 miles, but it was beautiful! We plan to ride it all the way to the beach some day.
Our garden is coming a long nicely! We have rosemary, tomatoes, basil, oregano, lettuce, beets, shallots, zucchini, dill, leeks, etc. It looks better than the picture below, I just don't have a recent photo. Last night, we ate lettuce, Shallots and basil in our dinner all from the garden! It's been fun being a part of the community garden . . . all the plots are so beautiful and it's fun to share excess produce with other people in the garden, to watch the bees buzz around their house and flit from plant to plant, to turn the compost and use it to mulch the beds, to fill up watering can after watering can and watch our garden grow. love it!
I've been really in to printmaking lately. Below is a photo of a print I am working on that is carved from a block of wood. This was supposed to be a wedding gift over a year ago, but the project has been elusive. When I discovered printmaking, I think I finally found the medium I needed to get it done. Since making this print, I've churned out a few more prints in linocut and have a few more in mind already! Feels good to be creative again!
We have to leave hudson with friends while we are gone next week . . . I am a bit nervous since he has reactive attachment disorder :) But these friends have watched him before and he's gotten so much better at walking on the leash, etc since then . . . I'm sure he'll be fine - I guess it's just me I am worried about. Last week, we dogsat our friend's rodesian ridgeback, Calvin. Hudson and Calvin are great friends. We would take hudson over there almost every day and they would run around the yard together. Calvin was sad that his family wasn't there with him, but he sure was happy to see us and to let Hudson chase him around the yard!
Friends! We've really been solidifying a good group of friends here these past few months. It feels great to go around the city and recognize faces and places. Providence is such a small town, it is impossible now to go anywhere without running in to someone we know. Here we are with some awesome friends a few weeks ago at a birthday bbq~ that day we were invited to 3 bbqs in one day! That's how well we are doing with meeting people. This is probably one of the reasons why I don't blog as often as I used to . . . i actually have a life now. I guess it is a good problem.
anyway, we ordered pizza and need to go water the garden and then I am going to color my hair in prep for the wedding photos! Just wanted to check in real quick to let you know that we are happy and healthy and keeping busy!
See some of you very soon!
love,
tabitha jon and hudson
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
UPDATE!
I know it's been a while - we've had a lot of computer problems lately, stupid viruses - . . . so I thought I'd do a photo update . . . . Here goes:This past weekend, two of our housemate's graduated from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Matt, who lives in our apt and Jeff who lives one floor below us both received their master's degrees. We cheered them on in the morning and then celebrated by stuffing our faces at a bbq in back of our building afterwards. The weekend was full of meeting families and celebrating. Teegan, Jeff's wife, even had a piano recital scheduled for the same weekend so her family could check out her amazing talents while they were all in town already. What a great time for supporting our friends and eating lots of good food. (did I mention that I love good food?)
Here's a photo of the four of us housemates (matt, me, Jon, and Lisa) taken at the bbq. (Lisa left us for the summer and we have someone else living in her room for three months. we miss her!!!)
Waaaay back in the beginning of May, my friend Joanna and I co-hosted a clothing swap/Mad Hatter Tea Party. It was divine. Joanna really did all the work I just came up with part of the idea . . . About 15 or more girls atteneded, bringing bags and bags of clothes they wanted to get rid of (spring cleaning!) we had tea and lovely desserts, playe "Alice in Wonderland" in the background, sorted through each other's clothes, took what we wanted and Donated the rest to the Rhode Island Women's Shelter. I already have 5 more bags of clothes to get rid of for the next time we do it!
Here's just a cute picture of hudson from when he wedged himself in to the small space where Jon was working to fix his office chair. Hudson missed Jon while he was away at school . . . can you tell? Of all the places he could lay in the ENTIRE house, he picked this one:
Here's a photo of the banditos from the end of March when we visited our friends Abby and Dylan in their new home in Asheville, NC. These are our friends that we lived with last summer in Alaska. Hudson and Jack (the blue heeler) are BFFs . . . so we all had a GREAT time!
Here's the crew of us on our hike up a Mountain which I forget the name of . . . bald mountain maybe? dunno. It was wonderful whatever it was called.
Lately, we've been working hard, playing in the smatterings of sun we get every now and then, tending to our plot in the community garden, spending time bbqing with friends and hanging at the beach . . . we've seen some family recently (when our cousin Emily graduated with her Master's Degree in Boston) . . . we are watering our first floor neighbor's flowers while they are in Wisconson getting hitched (sadly, we couldn't afford plane tickets to their wedding . . . sniffle) . . . Last night we went and saw the new Star Trek movie and LOVED IT! . . . Jon is playing intramural softball with Brown for the summer (Tabitha just watches), Hudson is making friends with other dogs around town and we are looking forward to a trip home to Oregon in a few weeks for Sara and Pete's wedding! huzzah!
oh and also? we found DROP TOP AMBER ALE from Portland, Oregon at the liquor store across the street!!! Finally! Beer that tastes like it should! sigh . . .
thanks for reading, lots of love!
T, J and H.
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