New Year

Good evening!

It is just about one hour until midnight and I was inspired to start up the ol' blog now that I have a camera!

I'll start out with the end of this year. All but the first of these photos were taken just yesterday in my yard and the surrounding woods.

This is Ginny and Storm. They have lived with us since November and are most fantastic.

Happy New Year all.

Technical Difficulties

Keeping a blog when one has no camera is a lot more challenging than I'd anticipated.

There have been many exciting things happening and we've gone and done lots of fun things lately. I've also been knitting and sewing a lot for myself and my new home! Wash cloths and such... heat packs and tank tops... but with no camera, it's difficult to share these... Boy can I tell you how exciting it will be when I do get a camera! Hopefully I don't have to wait too long!

Thankfully my Mom has given me a whole whack of the photos she's been taking lately of the stuff we've been doing together, so that is great! 

*All photos taken by Susanne Granneman(or at least with her camera)

Ryan and I at the farm!

 

Sister time!

My blossoming garden...

braiding my home grown garlic!

It's amazing how tall these beauties are still getting!

My finished product... but only 2 of them. The biggest have yet to be photographed!

This photo was taken the day our offer for our new house was accepted!

Right now Ryan and I are waiting on a call... Hoping to have some work today, although I have minorly hurt my back this morning getting groceries, I'm hoping this won't impede in our work day... If we get a work day!

OH in other work-related things, Ryan has started coming to the farm with me! It made me so happy that he's decided to come! But I think he realized that if he wants to help me, he's gonna need some knowledge.^_^ Yay!!!

Happy trails, everyone. Enjoy what's left of summer and then hop right into enjoying Autumn! ♥

Relief?

Well... Not quite yet.
We got the house! We're amazingly ecstatic!
But the hard part is that we get possession on September 29th.
Fun, a whole month of anxiety and research for all the updates we'd like to do. Ryan's are much larger than mine.
I'm thinking about paint and space use. We will need to buy much more furniture just to fill the house! It will be so empty with the few items we do have!
So it's hard to plan when you don't have it all or the space...
They do say waiting is the hardest part. I agree.
But now that I've had an excellent and active day, I feel much better!
My mom and I had a lovely walk this morning. Then in the afternoon, my dad invited us out for some golf! It was really great. I have sore muscles again, which feels really good, since I have been feeling a bit lazy and wimpy lately. haha!
Tomorrow is Eli's birthday. I wish I had a camera! I still haven't found one yet. On the look out if anyone has any recommendations!

Hope!

We have just this evening put an offer in on our first house. *crosses fingers*
So hoping we get it!
Wish us luck!>_< ♥

House Hunting

Ryan and I have been house hunting for the last couple weeks.
Nothing is for sure yet, and we're still looking. We have seen some fantastic homes, and some horrifying homes.
We have so far found one that we're very interested in, but we have some questions, so it's still on the maybe list while we continue looking.
Hopefully we'll have a few new homes to look at today as well.

Also, my camera died last weekend. I think the beginning of the end happened 2 weekends before when I was running across the street in Victoria and the strap of my bag, containing my camera, snapped and it crashed to the pavement. After that here was some rattling going on and eventually it just stopped turning on.
So for now, I'll have imageless posts except for the when my mom sends me photos she's taken when we hang out.
Hopefully I'll get a really nice camera this time!

Yesterday I got to spend the whole day with my sister and Mom!(though Mom was only there for a few hours).
It was nice having some Jenny and me time. We haven't had that in a while!


Part of Jen's lovely garden!


Sniffing Jen's new spices.


More of the lovely things in Jen's garden^_^


Shopping fun! I want a huge brim hat!


All photos by Mom(Susanne Granneman)

A bowl of smoke.

Our valley right now is filled with smoke coming from the wild fires on the mainland.
It reminds me of a world in a book I read, which had an atmosphere that was constantly in twilight.
I found the weird hazy orange lighting inspiring, and went camera happy in my garden.


Sunflowers in the morning haze. Taken at 8:30 this morning.

The orangey pink evening haze. Can hardly see the mountains!




Up in the very middle of the sky, it is kind of blue...


Sunflower in the evening sun. Taken at about 6pm.






And this is my new Canna Lily. I got it at the farmer's market for $5. I'm in love with it!

Sometimes when I feel the most crazy, anxious, unstable and desperate, I feel the very closest and most in tune and in love with the Earth and Everything.