12.04.2005

Nothing like a nice day of splitting and stacking firewood to recharge from 28 + hours of driving cross-country with eight people squeezed into a van! But really, it's a nice day here: 22 degrees and sunny. Jesse's lucky - she got to go to work at the toy store, so no manual labor for her. Funny how that always works out! i'm hovering by the bonfire to the left and listening to the goshawks scream as they circle over head and the chickadees chirping and fluttering all around our heads.

Had to take a break from knitting the last few days. My arthritis is really really bad. I think that Christmas presents will be a little late. I can knit about 5 rows a day. Surgery is in 11 more days, though and the drugs will be out of my system by mid-February - so I should be back to knitting in full swing by then!