Preparing for Baby

Recently we got some wonderful bamboo diapers from James's aunt Susan, and we decided to try them out on el Jorge Curioso. He's so happy! Jorge is actually nice to practice with since he's sized about the same as infant (including the large head), and he's floppy like an infant (not being able to support his own head). Plus, the cat won't let us practice with his bad, fuzzy self.

We should mention how grateful we are for all of the things we've received for us and the baby, and that I can't think of a thing more that we need (although I'm sure we'll get surprised by things). We've received a stroller, car seat, something called a boppy pillow, lots of wee little socks, some beautiful handmade quilts, and on and on. I hope that people's generosity and love come back to them twice again :)

Also, some pics of baby's trip to the river.

New Bike Trailer

I recently found a welder on craigslist who had some extra square steel and wanted to make bike trailers. For $130 I got the prototype, complete with pink 16'' wheels. I've had to bring it back once to change the way it attached to the bike, but rewelding has all been free while we work out the kinks. I also added an expanded sheet metal bottom to the trailer, trimmed to fit with tin snips, and twist-tied on. Combined with some small bungees, this is about the greatest system I can think of to carry objects of varying size, shape, weight, and orientation (the latter referring to something with a "this end up", like some flowers in a water cup we got at the farmer's market).

Fun In the Garden

Our little container garden, earlier in the season, maybe late May. I built the big container from 10 dollars of salvaged 2x8s from ReSource here in Fort Collins (their main location is Boulder; here's the site: http://www.resourceyard.org).

Suzanne was 7 months pregnant in this picture. Now she's about 8.95 months pregnant or so.


Later in the year, almost everything has taken off. That's Frisee in the front, cilantro behind (hard to see; they're wispy), then Nasturtiums have the discs, then one chard behind that (not as big as the chard in the left of the picture, which really liked a bigger container), then nearing the back we have quite a few radishes, and in the very back spinach. The three containers on the left, from front to back, have cucumber (just getting going), chard, and tomato.

I'll have to get some wider pictures of the garden so the rest of it: 7 tomatoes, 4 cucumbers, many carrots and beets and radishes, lambsquarters, 5 borage (Suzanne's favorite flower), a little pepper plant, oregano, basil (regular, greek, and thai), chives, broccoli, cauliflower, snap peas (which vine), marigolds (which also vine), and more I'm forgetting. And we're just getting some okra started.