A Week In Review

My family left me again last weekend. This time for four days. I spent two days painting blissfully in my kitchen... working very hard on a project I hope to finish soon.



The other two days I spent at this conference... which was amazing. I learned so much about bee keeping (and bees!) and feel very excited to be beginning my new endeavor next month. I was also reminded how much I love science and have a sudden desire to get my hands on a microscope.



I made this painting in class last week with tempera paints and now I can't stop thinking about them. I'm not sure that it counts as "art" when you use an art medium that is made for 5 year olds, but I've never had so much fun painting. Must get some.



Ryan has been working really hard to chop firewood for next year. Our first winter trying to heat our house with wood was a good eye opener as to how much we really need. A lot.



Ryan also decided he wanted to tap our Maple Trees this year which I was ecstatic about. I'm not sure my vision of tapping trees was quite as grand as his though as we now have 30 tapped trees. I have to admit that "making the rounds" is much more fun then I thought. And should everything go well we could have a year's worth of maple syrup (and we do love syrup).



Spring is still not here... yet. I have a little more spring fever then I did last year and looking back on my blog (and last year's March 15th) isn't helping. But I can feel that it's getting close. Falling rain has replaced falling snow... and instead of sliding on ice we are stomping through mud. Yes very soon.

I have been spending more time away from here these days to try and make some space in my life for some other things I want to get done before summer. While I do love posting here on a regular basis, it has also been freeing in a way to let it go just a bit. I think that's how it's probably going to be for the next few months or so. But I'm also looking forward to June when I have a lot less on my plate (and no work) and can be back here every day to record our summer adventures.