Wednesday, July 25, 2007

early harvest

The chanterelles have come early this year and now we live in real mushroom country. This is the first tiny harvest. I am a bit proud to say it was I who found them, but it was only enough for one small omelet. Also there are vast fields of blueberries. They are a bit different here and take longer to pick because they don't grow in clusters, but on average they are a bit bigger.
The forests are really nice to meander through and I can really imagine I am up at Moxie.

Some of you have been asking about which glasses I chose. None. I actually found a kind of lens that works pretty well for me, so I am going with them for now.

The bike trip pictures never got taken, along with the entire outing. Our vacation was plagued with rain which makes for a rather uncomfortable biking and camping situation. I think we sat in front of computers for three days which thoroughly squished our brains to boredom.
I went back to work a few days before Mathias. During that time there was a festival which his younger brother and 4 of his friends came to and set up camp in our apartment. Whew! I am so not 21.

I am expecting Jennifer and Marion to arrive on the 8th of August, driving up from Rennes, France. I expect some more of you NARDs should be making a visit, and excuses like I just had a baby, or I have a pear orchard, or I'm Xandy and I never leave central Maine just don't cut it anymore.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Glasskogen, The Glass Forest

About a month ago Mathias and I packed up and hiked in the nature reserve not far from us. There are tons of trails and it will take us a long time to go through them all. It was the first really great weekend this spring. It was early enough that there weren't so many hikers out there with us. The day before we struck out I did a slew of new exercises all for gluts and I was paying for it during the hike. There is a huge difference carrying all goods on our backs compared to biking, and I was feeling a little less spry than I used to.
Friday we are headed out for another bike trip, 6 days. Next time I will post pictures from last weekends warm up bike trip.