Blisters and Bare Feet

Spring has sprung! I spent yesterday mowing the lawn and tidying up the pine cone spillage on the driveway and sidewalk, then riding my bike from coffee shop to coffee shop to do a little Statistics research. Last night, Laura and I rode to see Die Fliedermaus (or something like that), an opera performed by Willamette's very own Dramatic Vocal Arts group. We finished the evening with "The Sweetest Thing," a highly inappropriate and entertaining movie that was just the ticket for our moods.

So far today, we have baked bread, cinnamon rolls, eaten the pasta salad from yesterday, and started our garden! We peddled over to the Hood Street House to borrow a shovel and stopped at Safeway on the way home to get seeds. We spent the whole afternoon digging, among other things...







Our compost has a new home! We're just hoping something will eventually grow from it, because we weren't very careful about what went in and what stayed out to feed to Laura's chickens at her other home.









Blistered
Bruised but bare and
Beautiful scratched and stained
Broken soil
Spirits
Built upon solid sustainable ground
Roto till ers
Iced tea
Carne y palas de los vecinos