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I am excited because my mom took me shopping Tuesday and bought me three shirts and three pants (two slacks and a pair of jeans) all of which have enough room in them for baby and I to grow into. Yeah Mom!

I also got to hear some stories from when she was pregnant with me. They didn’t make a lot of professional clothing for women at that time, so she made a lot of her own. And she made a swim suit for herself. I am glad that our society had evolved a bit since then, and proud of her that she made her own clothes and didn’t let the lack of professional maternity clothes keep her from being a pregnant working woman during that stage of the feminist movement.

I am also very grateful that my mom bought me some clothes. Not only did I get some clothes out of the deal, but I got to spend time with her, just the two of us, that I will never forget. It was pretty special, and I had a good time.

Doug is building a dresser/changing table top for baby from scratch. Wow, a carpenter and a computer geek.

links to www.TheCradle.com

http://www.thecradle.com/friendsandfamily/pregnancyetiquette

http://www.thecradle.com/friendsandfamily/newbabyetiquette

http://www.thecradle.com/dadstobe/nottodo_duringlabor

I just learned that the Mason Street Corridor
http://fcgov.com/mason/
here in Fort Collins is going to benefit from the federal funding from Obama.

http://www.ci.fort-collins.co.us/news/index.php?id=2731

I heard that transportation projects that were already well developed and in the works are the ones that are going to receive money. I guess it pays to plan ahead and be ready when the wave comes in.

Ah, results. Now that is what I like to see, and only two months in. Thank you, President Obama.

I have discovered in the past few months that I have a heightened sensitivity to the following subjects:

If I have a job or not

Anything related to being pregnant, such as:
My appearance, especially my body, posture, weight, clothing, hair, etc.
My hormonal and emotional state, and the resulting levels of logic, reason, sanity, level-headed-ness etc.
What I eat or don’t eat
How much I exercise
My personal space

I just thought I would put this out there, in the hopes that my friends and family will keep these things in mind.

With hope and anticipation, small drops of potential buried in moist soil, warmed by the sun, three days to the hour, a seedling revealed.
Lettuce.

One of my recent projects that has taken so much of my time is to learn as much as I can about kitchen vegetable gardens. I have started several seeds inside in a humidrome. Carrots, beans, scallions, peppers, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, parsley, cilantro, thyme, sage, oregano, and chives are the first contenders, to be followed by broccoli, mint, and basil. These will be eventually transferred to suitable sized pots and live on the back deck and around the edges of the back yard, where they will be joined by a garden bed of asparagus, corn, onions, peas, potatoes, pumpkins, and zucchini. Hopefully, some fruit like watermelon, raspberries, peaches, apples, and cherries will also eventually make their way along side of the veggies. Oh yes, and strawberries. I would never forget strawberries, the most beautiful fruit of all (and my favorite).

This is one massive science experiment, with data notes and supply prices and time stamps. Hopefully, what I learn this year from my own garden I can apply to other people’s gardens next year in a dispersed sustainable community agriculture technique- you pay me to put the garden in your yard and pay me to maintain it and harvest it, you get in return very fresh very local natural veggies for less than the price of the organic ones you buy at the natural grocery market, plus the pleasure of having a garden without all the work.

And it all starts with lettuce.

I put a bunch of pictures from our Grand Canyon Trip in the Trips and Adventures gallery of our photos. Enjoy! We did.

1800 miles (+/-) later and we have…

driven through the upper Moab Colorado River Valley skirting the edge of Arches National Park, down through Monument Valley, through the uplift of the Colorado Plateau and into the Grand Canyon National Park, enjoyed the canyon in a fresh snow and cold for several days, driven through Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona to visit my Aunt, see the Chapel of the Holy Cross, trekked back up only to decide at the last minute to not retrace our steps but to go past Lake Powell and the dam at Glen Canyon National Rec Area, scrape the southern, western, and northern edges of the Grand Escalante Staircase National Monument, went to Zion National Park, to Bryce National Park, and then Capital Reef National Park, to head back home, arriving safely after 5 days of adventure and relaxation.

Pictures to follow, after we sleep…

Quick thought… We got to hear the baby’s heartbeat today. That was cool!

We are working on updating our website, and I asked Doug if he would be willing to teach me more about updating the website (other than the blog and gallery) so I can keep the tabs more up to date for everyone. But for now, he is doing the updates.

Hopefully we will have some new pictures in the gallery soon and the background colors of the blog and gallery have been corrected and he removed the entry screen flash page, but more importantly, we have a new tab.

Check out our new tab… “…Makes 3”

Thanks for reading!