Almost to real spring

Mapping out the garden

If you're a baker who doesn't want to make cakes for gay people (you know, like the Bible says:  "Thou shalt not bake gay cakes"), if your hatred of gay people is that much greater than your love of making cakes - then clearly being a baker is sort of a side-project to your bigotry.
~ Sutekh, Komonews commentator

The tractor

I'm learning to drive a tractor!  Way more complicated than you would think.  What happened to just hitting gas and brake (and a clutch)?!?

Tractor!  (and reluctant smile)

The view from behind me.  haha. 

You probably couldn't tell from all the blurriness, but I was trying to drive...

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Fire

I found someone who likes fire as much as I do!

I had a truly wonderful weekend.  Hope all of you had the same.

You are the poem I never knew how to write
and this life is the story
I always wanted to tell.
 ~ Tyler Knott Gregson

Another day

Windmills lost in the fog outside of Ellensburg, WA

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." 
~ Ernest Hemingway

Today my head and heart are at war...

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed...
~ Rihanna

The latest

The latest recipe:  Scotch Eggs (no link or pic.  Google it!)

The latest fun:  Hanging out with my friend Kara for the night and making wine

The latest holiday:

Valentines day!

 The latest presents: 

Someone knows me!

 My latest view:



Early morning light in the forest

The latest thing to make me smile:

When a 4 year old gives you temporary tattoos - you can't say no!  (if you can't see it's a rainbow and a peace sign)

 My latest FAIL:

The latest snow:

Last week.  2 inches.  Melted in a day.

The latest animal I'm trying to be friends with:

Daisy

"For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning."
~ T.S. Eliot

The beginning of more-self-sufficiency

I've been learning a lot....

Like how to change a tire.  On a Ford F250.  I got to use an airgun and torque wrench.  What this picture doesn't show is I don't have 140 pounds of pressure to properly do this more than once, and my feet kept sliding everywhere.

No, I'm not 300 pounds.  I'm wearing a huge coat and it was snowing outside.

 And how to chop kindling! 

I'm kind of a chopping fool.  It's way more fun than it should be.

 

Also, how to build a fire in a woodstove.  How to operate a pellet stove. 

 

And I occasionally get to feed horses.  

You didn't think I'd make a post without an Atticus picture, did you?

Yet I still cannot figure out windows 8 and how to print from PDF. 

Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful, and don't point fingers.  They stand and they deal.
~ Mandy Hale