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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