So, since The Mary House is requiring a lot of patient waiting, I thought I'd update you on some other things I've been working on. They are far less important, obviously, but it does help a lot to have something enjoyable to work on and create since this has been the longest winter of my life! Don't get me wrong, there is still plenty of work to do for The Mary House, but what do we do when we are not working??
KNIT!
(Hold the old lady jokes, please!)
The first is my knitted sweater:
It doesn't look like much, but it is HOURS and HOURS worth of knitting. So far I have the back and half of the front done. I'll post it again when it is completed (don't hold your breath!) We watch movies or listen to books on tape a lot, so I knit along with that. So far we've listened to "Love Among the Chickens" by P.G. Wodehouse, The Hobbit and now we are making our way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I don't remember who recommended Wodehouse, but he is really funny, so that was a good discovery. Also, I had read the Hobbit before, but I really like it- it's a good inspiration for the adventures of life. Now I am finally reading (okay, listening to) the Lord of the Rings, which has been on my list for a while! I also listen to Hebrew or Arabic language tapes once in a while by way of getting ready for my trip to the Holy Land- only three more weeks!!
Also, the weather is slowly getting better. This week we've had three nice days in a row!! So our leaky roof was finally able to be fixed and we started preparing land to put in a garden.
A quality I hadn't noticed in myself has recently emerged: I like to dive into huge projects and skip all the smaller projects that normal people would do leading up to it. Example number one: I went straight from knitting basic scarves to a huge sweater. Example number two: I wanted to make our garden huge, and I have never gardened.
Gail is helpful in bringing me back down to earth sometimes so we settled on this as a good size, even though its still big. We have a lot of people willing to help us with things, so we'll see how it goes!! I've been reading up on gardening organically, companion planting etc. Yesterday I planted some seeds inside; hopefully they'll grow. We won't be able to plant much for at least another month (It was still snowing last week and is predicted to snow again Thursday and Friday!. Everyone looks at a particular mountain in town and when there is no snow left on that mountain, that's when they plant their gardens. By the looks of things, there will be no gardening whatsoever this year!
In other news...we went biking in the Snake River Canyon with Eric and Liz this weekend. It was GORGEOUS!! Unfortunately, we all forgot our cameras, so you'll just have to believe me!
