Happy Winter Holidays!

Bee Thankful

Disclaimer:: I don't exactly believe in all the "Indian" and Pilgrim part of Thanksgiving. It makes me quite sad thinking about it and certainly makes me not very excited about celebrating the day. But I do believe in giving thanks, although this should happen everyday not just once a year. It is good to celebrate all that you are thankful for.

Some things that come to mind that I am thankful for since I could go on forever I'll just do a few instead of writing my life story.

1. My boss calling me at 12:00 today and telling me to go home.
2. A job where I can bring my sewing machine to work and sew and create all day long.
3. My bestest friend in the whole wide world - Bunsen.
4. My incredible group of girlfriends, I am blessed with knowing and loving so many beautiful strong, intelligent women.
5. Having so many Mothers, especially me Mom and Grandmom and also not being a part of the bad mother-in-law club, I'm happy to say I love my MIL.
6. My Dad who is the funniest, most hardworking man I know. He's full of, how he says, "useless information" (I think he knows everything)
7. Even though I don't make much money (because it's almost impossible to make money in Humboldt) and I still have a rich life and everything I need. We live a simple life.
8. Saving money.
9. Being an artist, having the ability to create what I see.
10. Living in a world where I have the freedom of education, and information is everywhere.
11. I can cook and do it well, I think it's genetic thing.
12. Having a really good childhood - makes for less baggage in life.
13. Being taught to seek happiness not money (though I know it helps).
14. Organic food
15. The experience of living in LA and here in Humboldt.
16. All the adventures I've been on - Greece, France, road trips.
17. My imagination.
18. My big brother.
19. Really good books and stories.
20. Huge world of creative people right now on the Internet. All these blogs I read all the time. So much inspiration out there. It's a great time to be creative. Tapping into that current feels so good. It also feels so good to find so many like minded people.

Happy Samhain!!!!!

Oh a wonderful holiday full of spirits and new beginnings. Tonight is the night to welcome all those who have left the world as we know it. Welcome them and feast with them, ask them to guide you for the rest of the year and keep you on your path. For they can see more and further than you. Tomorrow begins the decend into the cold days of winter, time to go in, quiet time, time for reflection.

We had our little feast tonight - pumpkin raviolis and onion gravy, some roasted chestnuts (Yum!) and the Bee's best cookie recipe yet - cocoa nib cookies. That's raw cocoa beans all chopped up, before it's made into chocolate. They're very bitter when eaten alone but when mixed with right ingredients they're delicious. I promise, I will post these recipes... One day......

Happy 4th of July!!!!

It's good to be free!

No red, white and blue here, don't really dig that color combination. But, sunflower are about as American as you can get.

Harvest Day

Bee's potatoes.... We've never grown potatoes before. Only had them this year beacause we had couple old potatoes and the Bee decided to put them in the ground and let them figure it out. Well... We were certainly surprised to pull out so many yummy little russets. We'll be doing that again, that's for sure...



I can't believe how beauttiful this garlic is, I didn't even peek on it once as it was growing so I was quite surprised. I pulled 17 big beautiful garilcs today.

And this is what became of it (some of it at least). Roasted potatoes with fresh sage and oregano, onions and garilc all harested this morning. On a bed of wilted spinach from the farmers market. We are truely rich.

We had a lovely day today, actually the whole weekend was grand. I decided it was time to tackle the back garden with the sage taking over the world, the oregano was getting up of hand again and the garlic decided it was time and fell over and the potatos started to look not so good. This could be because we haven't been watering lately. You get so used to all the rain we get 3/4's of the year that when it stops you don't think about it, I mean how could the Earth need anymore water with all the rain we got this year. But it does...
This was such an amazing weekend, what a little sun can do for the soul. This is one of those weekends where it feels ok to go back to work. I mean, of course I would rather not, but I feel refreshed.. It's good.

Happy Summer

I think we are going to celebrate the beginning of summer this weekend when we go to the beach to collect drift wood to make a mobile. I think that's a nice way to celebrate the solstice. Let's hope the Sun agrees and decides to join us. Happy Solstice everyone!!!

A Little Late Happy Father's Day

This is to my very cool Dad.. Ya know, my a very lucky girl to have such good parents. My Dad is an exceptional Dad. I swear he knows everything, he says he's full of useless information but I don't agree. He's one of the best story tellers ever, I could listen to his stories and never get tired of hearingt them. He's an extremlly hard worker (too much so somethimes)he always provided us with whatever we needed (and more). He wasn't around so much when I was real young because he was working so much so that my Mom could stay home with us and for that I am very grateful. But there was always "beat up Sunday", he was always home on Sundays and after church we would come home and he would wrestle with my brother and I. Of course I was the one who always got hurt but that didn't really make me want to stop. He was there for all the dance recitals and softball games, birthday slumber parties at his house - a weekend full of 7 or so little girls staying all night eating cake and pizza and giggling. Just putting up with that every year makes him a pretty super Dad. Always gives the best advise, true advise, not exactly what he might want us to do but what is the best to do. I am very excited about the possbility of living closer to him 'cause than I can spend some "regular" time with him instead visiting time (that goes for both parents). I told him when I called on the actual Father's Day that I'd make a list of all his attributes, I was joking of course but I found this picture and thought I'd let the world know just how cool my Dad is........

A Little Sister Reunion

This would be (staring at the top Left - right) Heather, me, Dorie, Megan and Courtney.


Well I'm in a bit of a daze so I'm not sure how well I will be able to portray the events of this weekend. But I have to say I got a good dose of the best medicine around - Girlfriends....Now I knew Megan was flighting to Washington to see Heather and was planning on driving down to see me . To tell you the truth I wasn't really looking forward to it Friday when I came home from work. I was SO tired and had So much work I wanted to get done and knew I wasn't going to get any of it done. But they arrived real late Friday night so I used that extra time wisely and got a lot of work done and when they arrived everything changed. I could actually feel the change when it happended. I kept saying this is so weird I feel like I'm dreaming, but what I think was happening was I was waking up. Then it got even better...... About ten or so minutes after receiving the first little dose of this much needed medicine there was a knock on the door... Now mind you, I told my very good friend Dorie to stop by that night if she wanted and meet my girlfriends, if she wasn't doing anything. So when I went to answer the door thinking it was Dorie I was pleasantly surprise to see the one missing sister - Miss Courtney Geetter!!! The circle was than complete, the "Super sister" medicine started flowing and everything felt just right. This was exactly what I needed, though I had no idea that I needed it so much. It's a funny thing, this thing called life.....You get so used to the routine of it it gets to be just like sleeping, you just go through it blindly, it's a good thing to remember to do something that shakes ya a up a bit and gives ya a recharge. So in all, good times were had (as usual), much love was spread and I think we all got some much needed Super Sister medicine.
They even managed to wear Andrew out.

Happy Birthday to My Big Brother!!

To the bestest brother in the whole world!!!!