election fever

hmmm, the joys of moving, packing up ones life and challenging the threshold of familiarity. An interesting fork in the road abounds at every new house-sitting opportunity, and this is no different than the others! Slade and I will spend 7 weeks in the small Mennonite village of Hawkesville, just 25 minutes from the city….

In Albuquerque we were treated to a phenomenal tour of the Air Force base by a close friend (names withheld to protect the innocent), seeing the insides of all these wickedly cool special-ops planes and helicopters; how often does one get to walk through a fully kitted out C-130?! — I had fantasies of jumping…

“We are all dancers. We use movement to express ourselves – our hungers, pains, angers, joys, confusions, fears – long before we use words, and we understand the meanings of movements long before we understand those of words.” ~~ Franklin Stevens

What a glorious splendid fall day … And the perfect opportunity to spend time with my nephew! I must admit, in all of his almost years I have never spent the afternoon with him alone where I had the chance to take him out to play or eat. Well I was blessed to have this…

Well, I finally discovered one of the not so positive aspects of living in our apartment. We live on a major thoroughfare and our bedroom is facing the road, with cars parked only feet away. At first when we moved in, the noise was rather disturbing and made for some very restless nights. However, with…

Oh what fun! Another day of languid enjoyment of family, fall splendour and warm autumn days. Being the photo-happy Aunt that I am, I spent a gleeful few hours cataloguing flips and spins on the trampoline and video digitizing (quite shakily, from the helm of a bicycle) the ecstatic skateboard ramp jumps made by Forrester….