Sunday, May 31, 2009
Cute Little Hiking Dudes
We went hiking to Lisa Falls the other day. It's beautiful and raging at this time of year. A wonderful cool little hike for the kids, from house to falls and back takes less than an hour. It's a very short trail, we'll have to work up to some longer ones....stay tuned....but for now, enjoy the super cute little guys.
Update to Ode to May....
Okay nevermind, I digress. It isn't cold enough that not so many snakes are out. Because, well, a couple weeks ago, I nearly (nearly=4 inches max.) stepped on a little guy like this:
This is the closest I have ever gotten to one of these scary terrible creatures. I didn't see him, he didn't see me, until I nearly smashed him with my sandals (read: bare ankles and lots of easily accessible flesh). He rattled at me and started retracting and I yelled "rattlesnake" and ran.
So, I figure that I've lived in Utah about 20 years, and it's taken me this long to see this lovely little slithery deadly creature up close and personal, I guess I have another 20 years until I have to see another one. I wish it worked that way. But I can keep telling myself that it does.
This is the closest I have ever gotten to one of these scary terrible creatures. I didn't see him, he didn't see me, until I nearly smashed him with my sandals (read: bare ankles and lots of easily accessible flesh). He rattled at me and started retracting and I yelled "rattlesnake" and ran.
So, I figure that I've lived in Utah about 20 years, and it's taken me this long to see this lovely little slithery deadly creature up close and personal, I guess I have another 20 years until I have to see another one. I wish it worked that way. But I can keep telling myself that it does.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Ode to May
Okay, so instead of doing like the 10 days of my favorite things for Christmas....I thought I'd just let you all know that I am pretty sure that May wins. If all the months of the year had a contest, May might have them all beat.
In May you can still snowboard, if you want to, hike, climb, enjoy the mountains, watch some of the early wildflowers bloom, see your bare feet again, wear flip flops and shorts again, wear a hoodie or coat in the evening....smell a campfire for the first time of the year again (or maybe not the first time)....go to barbeques again. Go running in shorts and a tank top again, outside, at any time of day. Climb rocks till your knees are black and blue without freezing your fingers off. We get to enjoy beautifully warm and sunny wonderful weather, and some cold, snuggly thunderstorms. The best of both weather worlds. Peonies. They only are found for sale for about a month.....now. Wisteria and Lilac bloom and are gone again. Lilacs and peonies smell like heaven. Gardening. Oh, the smell of dirt. Dirt under my fingernails and embedded in my dry skin cracks in my knuckles. Watching my sons find bugs and worms and actually treat them nicely, most of the time. Seeing the cute, chubbier version of bare toes that is a toddlers foot, running in the grass again. The smell of tomato plants on my fingers. Sprouts of all gorgeous and delicious varieties of edible green goodness. Watching a snap pea wind its first tendril around a support stick. Choosing varieties of heirloom tomatoes and squashes to grow for this year. Watching the white tiny petals fall off the tight budding electric green that is the strawberry. The color of the first leaves on trees, so young and excited. The mountains, bright and exploding with life, and the rocky and still snowy peaks looming above them. Mountain goats enjoying the sun and melting snow on the cliffs in the canyon. Hiking up to one and saying hello. Cold enough outside that not so many snakes are out. Rivers flowing loud and beautifully, a greater sound to me than the ocean. The deep red of the sockeye salmon makes it's appearance again, gets soaked in soy sauce and brown sugar again....and finds its way to the barbeque with the flip flops and the hoodies.
You should immerse yourself in the sights and sounds and smells and activities and delights of each season each year. You have to endure them all anyway, whether or not they are your favorite, so you might as well live them or move to San Diego or Hawaii. Let your days be saturated with the full experience of them. And why not start with May? If you don't actually dive in to any other time of year, just do May. Or leave more for me. I won't mind.
In May you can still snowboard, if you want to, hike, climb, enjoy the mountains, watch some of the early wildflowers bloom, see your bare feet again, wear flip flops and shorts again, wear a hoodie or coat in the evening....smell a campfire for the first time of the year again (or maybe not the first time)....go to barbeques again. Go running in shorts and a tank top again, outside, at any time of day. Climb rocks till your knees are black and blue without freezing your fingers off. We get to enjoy beautifully warm and sunny wonderful weather, and some cold, snuggly thunderstorms. The best of both weather worlds. Peonies. They only are found for sale for about a month.....now. Wisteria and Lilac bloom and are gone again. Lilacs and peonies smell like heaven. Gardening. Oh, the smell of dirt. Dirt under my fingernails and embedded in my dry skin cracks in my knuckles. Watching my sons find bugs and worms and actually treat them nicely, most of the time. Seeing the cute, chubbier version of bare toes that is a toddlers foot, running in the grass again. The smell of tomato plants on my fingers. Sprouts of all gorgeous and delicious varieties of edible green goodness. Watching a snap pea wind its first tendril around a support stick. Choosing varieties of heirloom tomatoes and squashes to grow for this year. Watching the white tiny petals fall off the tight budding electric green that is the strawberry. The color of the first leaves on trees, so young and excited. The mountains, bright and exploding with life, and the rocky and still snowy peaks looming above them. Mountain goats enjoying the sun and melting snow on the cliffs in the canyon. Hiking up to one and saying hello. Cold enough outside that not so many snakes are out. Rivers flowing loud and beautifully, a greater sound to me than the ocean. The deep red of the sockeye salmon makes it's appearance again, gets soaked in soy sauce and brown sugar again....and finds its way to the barbeque with the flip flops and the hoodies.
You should immerse yourself in the sights and sounds and smells and activities and delights of each season each year. You have to endure them all anyway, whether or not they are your favorite, so you might as well live them or move to San Diego or Hawaii. Let your days be saturated with the full experience of them. And why not start with May? If you don't actually dive in to any other time of year, just do May. Or leave more for me. I won't mind.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Gluten Free Time!!
So, we had a test done on William's poop, and guess what? His body is actively producing antibodies to gluten. Meaning these antibodies (very very basic description which could be inaccurate....) can damage his intestines (and may have already) leading to nutrient malabsorption and damage to any and all of the internal organs. So....here we embark on a gluten free diet, well, not we, just Will, too expensive for the rest of us. This may just become a gluten free blog with recipes and stuff....ha ha yeah right, I will have less time to do that than I do now.
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