How-dee

Kat again-- things are good here. Had a wonderful weekend entertaining Dorthe and Keith visiting from Charleston. My parents fed them well-- one southern delicacy after another, including fried chicken, peach and blueberry cobbler, rice with peas and pepper relish, tomato sandwiches (aka "mater") and fried green tomatos. We were all stuffed, and spent hours and hours talking and catching up. A good time was had by all. They are also expecting, so it was fun to talk baby stuff, and watch Dorthe knitting away on many adorable projects.

We had an excursion to the local peach farm and it was so nice. A little hot but there were many many gorgeous fruits and veggies to choose from. We also enjoyed the homemade ice cream. James would not give it a try. A sense of recent clinginess and the arrival of his incisors has made him less than willing to explore new foodstuffs, and boy did he miss out!!! Hopefully a steady diet of organic yogurt will get him through the next weeks.

James is fearless in the baby pool, desiring nothing more than to jump and fall, splash and go in-and-out, and in-and-out. We spend a bit of time back there every afternoon. We are all interested to see how this will change his hair-- I am always hoping for a tint of red (perhaps in honor of his namesake "Red" Dalton, or maybe because I just love redheads so). Not holding my breath though.

Mike had a GREAT time at his first week of classes. As the team member who'd traveled the farthest (and because he is tall) Mike was chosen to nail the evergreen on the peak of the completed roof of last week's cabin. This week they make an earth and straw bake oven. We're all waiting to hear how this turns out. Feel freee to read all the course descriptions on the Heartwood website (follow same link as above). Mike attends from "timber framing" through "homebuilding".

here are photos of James at the peach shed, a group shot with Keith and Dorthe, and some shots of 'fearlessman' in the pool.