A New Blog

I've been rather timid about this post.  Feeling a bit vulnerable and afraid.  You see I've started a new blog.  It's different than this one.  Given the fact that I just said I've been afraid to tell you about it, you'll laugh when I tell you what my new blog is about.  It's about fear.  (Told ya you'd laugh.)

I've struggled with fear pretty much all of my life.  When I became a Christian at age 14, my fears didn't go away.  If anything, they began to go underground and took on different tones as I grew older.  God has been faithful to love me and help me work through the myriad of ways fear can and has taken expression in my life.  And it's time I start sharing some of that journey with the rest of the world.  There are other Christians out there doing battle with fear and perhaps feeling alone in it.  Perhaps feeling ashamed that, after all, we have the power of the God of the universe living inside of us, right?  How can I be so faithless that fear still plagues me?

I call the blog "From Fear to Eternity".  If you're interested, or know someone who might benefit from the sharing of the journey from fear to faith,  it is located at www.fear2eternity.blogspot.com.  I plan to develop lots of resources for the blog: scripture categories, book links, encouraging songs, quotes, etc.  As yet, it's still new and I'm developing as I go.  I wanted to have it fully developed and many posts written in advance (something I've since learned is the RIGHT way to launch such a help centered blog), but that just wasn't happening.  Guess what...I was afraid to dive in and start writing.  I did some planning and researching, (the online scripture searches I mentioned in a previous post here), and wrote lots of notes about topics and experiences.  But I just wasn't getting articles written.  Eventually, I just dove in.  I think I had to.  Now that it's up, I'm writing.  But I sure feel behind now that I have a couple people who have expressed interest in it! 

What I've learned over the years is that there are a lot of "me's" out there. I want to speak to them with some of the things God has shown me and taught me (and has to frequently remind me of) on this journey toward freedom. I guess I'll let one of my first posts to this new blog speak as an introduction to you:

From Fear to Eternity
Friday, June 25, 2010
Why This Blog

This is a blog for fearful Christians. Christians who are afraid. If you are not a Christian, or don't know for sure if you are, I invite you to stick around. We could all use a little company as we look at our fear.


I write about fear not because I'm an expert at being brave or choosing faith over fear. I don't write because I'm a counselor, or a pastor, or a psychologist, or have some other such declaration of authority. I write because I know fear. I write because God, throughout my whole life, has been patiently and lovingly committed to drawing me out of slavery to fear.


I write because I know there are others of you out there who are, to varying degrees, slaves to fear. I write because I believe you're like me in that you long for freedom. You long for the life you've been missing. You long for that abundant life Jesus came to give you. I write because enough is enough, we are tired of all that fear continues to cost us and all that we've missed because fear has robbed us. I write because, despite the fact that I still deal with fear, God has been working in me regarding the fear in my life.


One of the ways God teaches me is through other people's lives. I learn from other people's stories. I believe we are to share our stories with each other. So I believe God can use the story and experiences of my personal journey from fear to faith, "from fear to eternity", to bless and encourage others. I write because of 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

The purpose and vision of this blog on fear is to strengthen the knees that are weak, which is for some reason how Hebrews 12:12 got locked into my brain, though it actually says, "Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble." It is to "Encourage the exhausted and strengthen the feeble, Say to those with anxious heart 'Take courage, fear not.'" (Isaiah 35:3-4a). It is my desire to comfort, encourage, instill hope and spur you to press on in your personal journey From Fear to Eternity.

These I Have Loved

A warm and breezy desert night.

The sound a quail makes.  The sight of 10 little fuzzy babies running in a line after their parents.

The way the forest looks after a rain and a sliver of sunlight breaks through the cloud cover.

The full moon reflecting on mountain lakes seen from the air on a midnight flight leaving Alaska.

My Dad's spontaneous little back rubs while sitting next to me at a dinner.

The sound of the water parting and the exhale of a small pod of Orca whales as they glided through the calm water toward a boat full of 25 people struck silent by their awe.

These I have loved.
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I would really like to get a hold of the address of my 7th Grade English teacher, Mr. Winzler. I want to write and thank him.  I think I always liked to write but I didn't really recognize it until one day in his class. I distinctly remember my desk being right up by his at this particular time in the school year. Most of my memories of his class are of when I sat way on the other side of the room. But this time, I sat right under him, it seemed, as he stood in front of his desk and introduced us to our next assignment. He read us a piece written by a woman; it was titled, "These I Have Loved". It was merely a list of things that brought her pleasure. The only one I remember was something about sneaking into the kitchen at midnight for a bowl of ice cream when everyone else was asleep.

I sat there, looking up, listening to him read this beautiful list of ordinary things being glorified into meaningfulness, and I LOVED it. I was captivated.  Moved.  I could feel excitement wakening and building inside me.  I couldn't wait to do the assignment.

Oh, how I wish I still had that paper. I would love to know what I wrote.  But I can't remember a single thing.  All I know is that it started my love for putting things into words.

I loved that assignment. When I was in High School I wrote a second one of my own initiative. Thinking about it recently I realize it's something I'd like to do more often. Because of this assignment way back in 7th grade, I frequently find myself thinking of things I have loved. Little things. Sights, sounds, smells, moments, feelings, interactions.  That assignment taught me to savor things.  I want to do that more, savor things.

I'd also like to write another These I Have Loved piece. I've found that, after so many years of living, I have much to write. There are just so many things I have loved. I'm not sure how I'll whittle it down to a meaningful piece of writing.  There is quite an eclectic mixture of things I'd like to include, too.  What I wrote above is just what came to me off the top of my head.  There are many ordinary things I would include as well.  Things like: 

Hugging a warm towel fresh out of the dryer.
Seeing someone's birthday cards all standing up displayed on a table, signs that they are loved.
A cat waking up with a huge yawn and a big stretch.
The smell of a pipe.

I invite you to write a "These I Have Loved" piece of your own. It's a wonderful tool for opening your eyes to some of the beauties of life you may ordinarily pass quickly over. Taking on an "assignment" makes us stop and ponder, makes us take a look at our everyday life and magnify some of the beauty that is so easily overlooked. I would love for you to share your list with me - the whole thing, selected highlights, or just one line.  Just copy it into a Comment. Or if you have your own blog, post it there and link to it in a Comment on this post.

I think this little assignment for ourselves has great potential.  I think it would be a great idea to do every year.  These I Have Loved About 2010.  Truly the list could be miles long if we stop to magnify the small glories of 365 days.  I'm thinking this would even be a great exercise to do every night before bed.  These I Have Loved About This Day.   I know I could use this kind of cultivating of a thankful heart.  I think I'll try and start a new habit.  I'll start tonight.

Cool Lamp

On a whim, I thought I'd post some photos of my friends totally cool lamp in her cabin.  It was in "my" room when we had a girls weekend there last year.  This unusual lamp was on the nightstand next to the bed in this peaceful second floor room that made me feel like I was in a tree fort. An exquisite tree fort.

It's all branchy, and viney, and drapie.  I love drapie things.  And, of course, I love branchy things.

I like how the light bulb hangs down just a little below the glass.

And what a totally cool and SIMPLE design for the glass.  Just wrinkle some folds in it and drape it in half!

Sometimes I am amazed at the simplicity of people's creativity!

PASS!

Yeah!  EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS to 25 Acres are now up and running!  Both my husband and I got an email this morning notifying us that my blog had been updated!  Guess this new Email Subscription thing works after all. Whew! That was a test of my patience!

So...(drum roll)...if you would like to receive an email notification when I've updated the blog, you can click on the subscription link in the sidebar and sign up.  It's not a real time notice.  Emails go out once a day. So if I happen to post several times in one day, you won't be flooded with emails every time I post.   

I'm having trouble deciding what 2 hour block of time to schedule the delivery of email notifications.  Any thoughts?  Would you rather be notified first thing in the morning about yesterday's posts?  Or would you rather be notified sometime in the evening about today's posts?

Speaking of computer impatience, isn't it amazing how impatient we've become as a society when our computers don't do something instantly.  We are so used to them actually doing things instantly, that when we have to wait a couple days for something to activate it's almost unbearable.  I have an email account with one of those free online sites. Because I flit around between desktop and laptop and from city to city I frequently send myself emails of important documents or photos that I want to make sure I have access to.  In this age of so much instantaneous effect, I get frustrated when an email to myself doesn't show up for a couple minutes.  Heck, I even get impatient when a page on the internet takes over 10 seconds to load!

If I'm a common example --and I think I just may be-- we are a fortunate and spoiled techno-people.  But what a tremendous gift this computer age has been to us!  Thank You, God, for computers, the internet, blogs, and email subscriptions.  Oh, and... uh, sorry for my impatience in the face of this amazing gift.

Quilt Report

Just a quick quilt report.   I have it all layered and pinned (rather than basted). 

I remembered to buy the pins in town after church Sunday.  I came home and set about doing this phase.  I actually found my iron.  It was in the basement on a shelf behind a bunch of other stuff.  I made sure there was a full charge in our batteries and that the sun was shining to boot.  And I turned it off every time I thought I was done.  Notice that I said ...every time I thought I was done.  I must have turned that thing on and off about 6 times.

First I got it all pinned and realized I forgot to tape down the backing fabric.  You're supposed to tape it down taut so it won't move and there won't be wrinkles in it as you pin.  You don't want to go sewing your final project only to turn it over when done and discover a bunch of tucks and folds you've sewn in!

So, I had to re-do it and move the whole process to the floor so I wouldn't gouge our dining room table with pins in the process.

I'm not even sure I can do the actual quilting on my old black Singer Featherweight sewing machine.  I'm told I need a "walking foot" attachment that helps feed the material from the top along with the built in bottom feeder (sounds like a fish to me).  There is a generic walking foot that I hope will work for me.  Otherwise, I just might be in for buying that $156 model at the shop or the $150 model at Wal-Mart.

I'm bummed that I won't be able to work on it for a couple days.  :-(  But I'll be sure keep you posted when I get at it again!

Fail!

Well, I still haven't received any email notification - via the Email Subscription feature I just added in the sidebar - telling me I updated the blog with the last two updates.  I've been messing around with it a little bit so I'll hang in there. 

Emails only go out once a day in a two hour window of my choosing.  I've been messing with the times trying to accelerate the testing period.  (There goes my impatience again!)

If anyone wants to subscribe and keep an eye out for update notifications in your email inbox that would help me.  Wait a day or so and then leave a comment on one of theses Testing posts as to whether you had any problems with the subscription process or if you ever got any updates.  I'll make sure to post something every day for the next three days.   Thanks!

Another Test

I discovered an automatically activated feature that was set to deliver emails to subscribers only between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. Go figure why they would set that as a default.  I deactivated that and suddenly my two subscribers showed up: myself and my husband.  With this post, we'll see if emails are sent out every time a post is posted.  Or what...  I have no idea but frankly, I'm prepared for it NOT to work! 

Trying to be patient...and persevering.

Testing, Testing

I added a Subscribe by Email feature!  I've been wanting to do this forever but just didn't know how.  I finally committed some time tonight to boldly go where lots of people seemed to have gone...with much more internet and blogging savvy than I!

After a very looooong time, I think I've got it.  However, I'm a bit concerned because while searching the help forums I encountered several people exclaiming that the email subscriptions were not coming through.  It allowed you to go through the whole process but people weren't getting the email  notifications.


Sooooo...I'm typing this post not only to let you know about it but also to test it and see if my own self-subscription works and I actually get an email about this post.

I'll let you know....

First Quilt - Progress Report

I've learned a lot in my two beginning quilting classes. For instance, here's some quilting terminology.  There's piecing, which is the sewing together of all the various little pieces that make up your quilt top.  Then there's the batting, the fluffy stuff in between your top and your backing.  Putting all these three layers together and safety pinning them together is called layering.  This is preliminary to the actual quilting, which is the sewing of all three together in any one of about a million different patterns.  Quilting is what gives your quilt it's puffy dimension.

In the process of making my first little quilt project I also learned that...I'm a lazy and sloppy piecer. Better add impatient in there, too.  Having a particularly weak solar system right now, I tried to get away with piecing my first quilt with only "finger pressing" after each fabric addition.  I think I mentioned in another post that we're pretty cautious and conservative with our power.  Especially since we're down to only six batteries.  (We're going to replace them all with 12 new batteries in the fall!  Can't wait!)  So, I didn't want to use my iron.  In fact, I have no idea where my iron is.  I know I've used it in the last 12 years since we moved up here.  So, about the finger pressing:  niave and arrogant, I thought, "oh, this will work". 

Well, it caused all kinds of problems.  Because my presses weren't precise, my edges weren't precise. Without precise edges, the next piece I added wasn't sewn on precisely.  Each piece attaches to the last one, and for this Log Cabin pattern, you keep adding bars around the square. If your seams aren't perfectly pressed along the way, the problem just compounds with every bar you add.

Not to mention the fact that I started on a machine at the quilt shop and then continued on my machine at home.  I guess you're not supposed to do that.  Start and finish with the same machine is what they say.  Once home I mistakenly sewed my seams too wide because the little piece of tape marking the seam width on my machine was NOT at 1/4" but more like 3/8".  (Enter 'lazy' and 'impatient' into the scenario.  Guess who didn't bother to measure it to make sure before she started sewing. *sigh*)  My squares were too small because my seams were too big.  So.... nearly finished with all my blocks, I started completely over.  Cut all the fabric over and sewed the Log Cabin blocks all over again.

And still they were off measurement - because of the finger pressing, my laziness-sloppiness-impatience.  At class last week I was all set to sew my blocks together and hopefully add my border fabric.  But my squares were so inconsistent I had to cut them down to the largest measurment of perfect square-ness.  Which made my outer bars much thinner than the inner bars.  Oh well.  Live and learn.  My teacher was right in that once I sewed them all together it's not immediately noticeable.  At a glance, it looks fine.  But if you look closely you can see that it's actually horrible! 

Tonight I sewed the border on and....................

TaDaaaa!

Go ahead, enlarge the photos and see how skinny some strips are and how fat some others are!  Again, oh well.

I'm all set to "layer" it now, making a sandwich out of the backing, batting, and (horrible but not immediately noticeable) top.

Here's my layered quilt all ready to be safety pinned together. ( I knew I forgot something while in town today at the 4th of July Arts Fair! Note to self:  Get large safety pins after church tomorrow.)

Here's a better picture of the backing fabric.

And a closeup. 

This backing fabric will also be my binding which is a 1/2" of fabric sandwiching and finishing off the edges.



You may have noticed my sewing machine in the first photo.  It's an old antique Singer. 

It's the machine I learned on in Mrs. Saylor's sewing class in her home back when I was in grade school. It's all I've ever really sewn on, except for the occasional borrowed machine amounting to about 3 hours of sewing in the last 35 years. It was my mom's. It was the sewing machine of our household. I don't know when she got it and have no idea how old it is. I would love to know, though. I don't know if it was my Nana's before Mom. Since Mom didn't sew except for mending, I'm thinking it might have been Nana's first.  I'll have to get online and do some research about when this style was made. 

The sewing machine service man at the quilt shop came up to me in class with a grin on his face wanting to look more closely at it.  Fellow classmates looked at it and said, "Are you making your quilt on that??"  They all have "new" machines, of course.  Sewing machines nowadays are incredible!  They have computers in them, for cryin' out loud!  I went to a "beginning machine quilting" week before last.  Machine quilting is where you sew your quilting pattern on your 'sandwich' with a machine as opposed to by hand.  When I went to this class, I brought my machine but ended up using one of the shop's machines.  It was the Bernina Quilter's Edition.  Price?  Three THOUSAND dollars!  This thing did everything!  It had about 50 embroidery stitches and who knows what all else.  If I were to spring for a new machine, I have my eye on the $156 model in the shop!  Even that I can't justify because, hey, without easy ironing I may not be able to make quilting a real hobby!  I think all machines have computers in them now, even the cheap ones.  If so, then I'm sure my old Singer uses much less power anyway.

I'll try to post more progress reports as I work to finish my quilt.

New Drawer Handles

Yesterday I put on our new drawer handles.  Actually, I bought them a long time ago but we forgot about them.  When I went to Phoenix to care for my mom for three years, they got put in a cabinet and forgotten about.  I installed them myself to surprise my husband. 

I absolutely LOVE them!  They are so "me."

What do you think?  Aren't they cute?  Especially for a cabin in the woods!

Here's a closer look.

I love the combination of verticals and horizontals.  Vertical for the cabinet doors and horizontal for the drawers.

I've seen this kind before but haven't seen them in years.  We got them at Target years ago when they were being discontinued.  I think I got them for $3.50 each which was a smokin' deal even then.

I just smile whenever I see them on our cabinets!

As a side note:  Today is my Dad's birthday.  I'm trying not to be sad.

House Guest

There's a guest in our house this week.

And his name is Clancy.

I realize that he gets fairly lost with our wild floral tapestry couch as a backdrop but even so it was the best place to shoot his picture at the time (which was 5 minutes ago in a messy house).

He and our two cats are getting used to each other...slowly.  Bobo is bold and outgoing, so he and Clancy are making their way steadily.  But Mama Kitty is a recluse.  She hides and thus hasn't had much exposure to Clancy.  Consequently, they're a little on the outs with each other still.

But Clancy is just the cutest little dog.  He's a Yorkie-Poo.  Part Yorkshire Terrier and part poodle.  He's way bigger than a Yorkie but doesn't have the curly hair like a Poodle, so they're not sure of how the mix plays itself out mathematically.

He blinked.  I don't think I've ever known a dog to blink when getting their picture taken.  This guy sure did.  But get a load of those eyelashes!  I'm told that they're really eyelashes and not just hair above his eye. 

He's so sweet.  Gentle and obedient.  Always wanting to please.  Rolls over to get pets.  And his tail..... his funny little tail....

is always going a mile a minute!


I'm really enjoying having him.  Mr. Clancy.  (Sounds much more sophisticated than what I've taken to calling him most of the time which is Bubba Doo.)  I think he looks as distinguished and full of character as a Clancy should.

Uh oh.  I hear hissing.....

When I Grow Up I Want To .....

If I had multiple lives to live I would like to :

- be a writer

- be a full-time artist

- be a college art teacher - medium = clay

- be a marine biologist, wildlife biologist, or wildlife veterinarian/rehabilitationalist

- be The Dog Whisperer

- have a llama or alpaca farm

- be a fiber artist who is also a llama farmer.  You know, the whole A-Z process of raising it, sheering it, spinning it, dying it, and then weaving with it.

- be an archaeologist

- be a missionary

- have a small Alaskan lodge

- have our own gift shop in a log cabin,  full of all our creative endeavors from music to writing, ceramics to wood creations, jewelry to knitting, quilting to photography!

- have a piece of property and run a no-kill animal shelter/farm

- have a ministry like L'Abri where people come and stay for varied lengths of time to learn about God, get specific soul questions and theological questions answered and work the property as part of their boarding.

- have a prayer day-retreat ministry in the woods where we'd have prayer cabins set up along the lines of Open Door Fellowship's Sacred Space


Some of these are dreams that are actual possibilities yet in my life, desires that are on the list of ""serious dreams".  Others are ones I seem to be well past the crossroad of opportunity for. 

What other "lives" do you think you would have liked to experience?  What do you want to be when you grow up?

Huge Bead Give Away - See Link

WOW!  I just read my friend, Angie's blog post about a HUGE BEAD GIVEAWAY over at Bling it On!  I haven't posted anything so you may not know this about me but I love making beaded earrings.  I have a business, Copper Moose Creations, that has been dormant for a couple years.  Several things got in the way of my taking the next step with the fledgling business and it sort of went to sleep.  I make earrings out of natural gemstones (my favorites), sterling silver, copper, shell, pearl, and glass.  My interpretation of them is "Earrings for Every Day".  I have not given up on the business in my heart and I still long to pursue it.  Especially since I have a few hundred pair of earrings stashed away. 

So if you like beads, too, (and are in the U.S.), head on over to Bling it On! and check out her giveaway!

Today in Town

Well, today's wolf encounter was very disappointing compared to last year.  The wolf was penned in behind fencing where he and his handler sat and talked to people hanging around the outside.  He's still not an adult wolf and is really only about a year into his role as ambassador.  So, I guess they're trying to make sure he feels secure.  Maybe last year was too much for him.  But the nature center that sponsored the event also had some other groups present with educational tables.  A Game and Fish guy was there.  I saw maps where various Mexican Grey Wolf packs hang out in our area.  I learned that the Mexican Greys are on the smaller side of wolf sizes. Turns out those two smallish wolf-looking canines I saw silently running about 20 yards from me and my two unleashed dogs early one morning about 8 years ago could very well have been wolves.  Wow!  And that shockingly large"dog" print in the snow many years ago could also have been a wolf track.  I had dismissed it at the time because a friend said that wolf tracks are about as wide as a woman's fist.  This one wasn't that large and I didn't know if had melted any, thus spreading it bigger than the paw that made it.  But today I saw track impressions that were smaller than the standard huge wolf print, so maybe it was.  Pretty exciting to think I saw two wolves right on our property.  I'm very glad my dogs didn't see them!

I ended up spending ALL day in town, though that was not the plan.  I had such exciting things to do as go to nearly every store here on the mountain including  K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Big Lots, (some of the finer establishments so well known to small towns!), Safeway, and Home Depot.  Not to mention stopping for an early lunch and later on stopping for dinner because I was STILL there, stopping by the quilt store to pick out my border fabric, and hitting the kettle corn stand in the Safeway parking lot.  (When we did our This-Is-A-Brilliant-Idea, But-Utterly-Failed Kettle Corn Adventure in Alaska in 2006 this local guy was the one that taught us the ropes....so I stopped by to say Hi....and got a free bag out of it! Nice guy.  Must still feel sorry for us.)

But the BIG event of my very long trip into town was that on a whim I stopped by The Movie Gallery, a rental place that's going out of business.  I stopped by about 5 weeks ago and things were discounted quite a bit but prices were still in the $7.50 range.  Today I thought that surely things had been marked down again and I'd check it out since I'd been forgetting every other time I'd been in town.  My first clue should have been that the parking lot was nearly full.  But, fried as I was from 8 hours of running around, I didn't catch on.  I walked in and though the shelves were nearly bare, there were these wonderful hot pink signs over 90% of the shelves that said: 50 cents.  50 CENTS!  Hey, for 50 cents, I'll try movies I've never heard of.  Apparently everyone else in the store was thinking the same thing.  People had STACKS of DVDs.  And, well, a certain blogger did, too.

 I bought some completely unknown movies to gamble on (hey, it's only 50 cents, right) and some interesting titles like Saint of 9/11 (the story of the priest who rushed to the scene of 9/11 to pray and serve and was killed when one of the towers collapsed),  The Ron Clark Story (an awesome true story about a teacher who believed the rebellious and failing students of an inner city school could actually excel in learning),  Sometimes in April (based on a true story of two brothers and the horrible conflict in Rwanda),  John Adams (an HBO mini-series about the second president...Oops!  I just looked closely at the DVD and it says 'Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.  Dang! Have to go back!)

 I bought Ambulance Girl, the story of a writer whose life is falling apart and decides to become an EMT - based on another real story.  And Shop Girl.   Shop Girl is a remake of the original movie The Shop Around the Corner starring Jimmy  Stewart and Margaret Sullivan.  If "Shop Girl" and "The Shop Around the Corner" make you think of the movie, You've Got Mail with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks...you're thinking rightly.  You've Got Mail was also a remake of the movie, The Shop Around the Corner.  In the original movie, the man and woman were pen-pals and actually worked in the same gift shop but didn't know the other was the pen-pal they were falling in love with.  In You've Got Mail, they meet in an online chat room.  Meg Ryan's character's handle is "Shop Girl" and she owns a bookstore named "The Shop Around the Corner."  It's one of my all-time favorite movies so I thought it would be fun to see how another rendition does it. [*Update: This movie was NOT a remake of the old Shop Around the Corner and You've Got Mail. It was something completely different, a story written-and starred in-by Steve Martin. It was a disappointment.]

I tried to grab a bunch of action/adventure titles for The Fisherman, but it was difficult.  To me, they all looked unappealing.  I did my best to follow what I know of his interests and, of course, his values, and steered clear of the highly thriller, victim, or evil predator type story lines.  Which didn't leave many on these picked over shelves.  But I went with some good and favorite actors like Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Val Kilmer.  I also found some movies that had a distinct Christian sound to them.  Good wholesome sounding films about people finding faith.  And then I bought a bunch of chick flicks!

Because I had to stand in line for over an hour, though I was behind a mere 5 people, I didn't get home till close to 9pm.  Had an almost immediate visit from one cute little raccoon on the front porch, and have been hanging out on Facebook, email, and now here.  Nearly midnight...so, goodnight all!

Going to Visit a Wolf

I'm going back to the nature center today to see the visiting wolf.  I went last year and met "Flurry", a white arctic wolf.  Check out my post from last summer about my Wolf Encounter.  I got some great photos that day.