Posted by Amie on Sep 23 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
We drove around for about 45 minutes the other night looking for gas to fill up our car. We gave up and I called around in the morning to find a gas station that had gas. The Asheville area, along with alot of other southern towns, have been experiencing a shortage for close to two weeks now!
http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880923070
Posted by Amie on Sep 23 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I have really gotten into my yoga class. I go for an hour and half each week and I love that for the full class all I do is think in the present moment. Each time I get out of class, I resolve that I will live each moment in the present. That lasts for about 5 minutes until I get on the freeway back home and I start thinking about what I need to do either that evening or the next morning. And then I forget about it until I’m back in yoga class. I find that I enjoy challenging myself by doing the poses and really thinking about each minute muscle and action that goes into the pose. When I do yoga on my own, I find that I don’t push myself as much as I do in class. Partly because I am afraid that if I do it wrong I will hurt myself and in class my teacher will let me know when I am doing a pose wrong! It has been a full day and I’m still thinking about how I enjoyed being present in the class but now I’m thinking of the past. So, I will try to put myself in the present again.
Posted by Amie on Sep 22 2008 | Tagged as: travel
We flew to Seattle, Washington to go to our friend’s Matt and Malia’s wedding on the eastern side of the Cascades. They were married in a very beautiful spot. It made us miss big mountains. :) Here they are getting married with their dog, Luna, in the front.
Mat was able to catch up with friend’s that he has not seen in about 6 years…from one of his first wildlife jobs out in the Sierra Nevadas in California.
On the way over the mountains, we stopped and took a walk through the woods. It was great to get out to stretch our legs and enjoy the beauty!
After we ate some fish and chips, we walked around the port of Everett where we saw some seals swimming around. We watched them for 15 or so minutes.
Posted by Amie on Sep 20 2008 | Tagged as: family
Click below to find out about the park…a little different than western North Carolina!
Posted by Amie on Sep 08 2008 | Tagged as: family
Last weekend, we floated the Toe River. It was a blast. We hiked up the railroad tracks for a bit and got all hot, then floated down the river. It was a much quicker float than last year because of the rain we got the week before. Many, many thanks to Chris, Mat’s boss, and his family and most especially their aunt whose place we got to hang out and eat a bunch of food at!
Posted by Amie on Aug 30 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I don’t know why I am finding the election so exciting this time around. Does this really prove that I am getting middle-aged-ish?
I find it fabulous at the selection we have to choose from. Are people so excited this time around because we’ve had reality television for so many years which people love and now we can find out so much about these 4 individuals in a race towards the White House?
I am excited to see a woman on the ticket, it is crazy to me that it has been 24 years since there’s been a woman on the ticket! I don’t have a television to watch, but I do find myself checking cnn and the ny times frequently. I don’t check our local paper, as they didn’t even have any bit of info on the front page about Obama’s speech. I thought newspapers were suppose to support the news. Anyway, I am trying to find out about this sarah palin…who is she? Other than a mom and governor of Alaska for 2 years? Definitely a stark contrast to Senator McCain (experience-wise, anyway).  At least from what I’ve read so far. Although, I imagine they have the same views on issues. Is McCain really going to get the Hillary voters?
I am definitely finding it to be an interesting year. Are you as interested in the elections this year, or am I abnormal?
Posted by Amie on Aug 30 2008 | Tagged as: our home
Mat’s boss, Chris, came over to help Mat cut down our tree that died a slow, sure death this summer. It was kind of tricky to cut down as there are power lines on two side, a tree we just planted that we wanted to keep, our house and our garden.  So Chris cut off the limbs on all sides except for a few on a key side so that the tree wouldn’t roll down into the garden.
Look how big the chainsaw is!!
Why doesn’t the tree want to fall down???? It’s cut all the way through.
Putting wedges in to make it fall over.
Mat hammering away at the wedges, you can see it is starting to fall over. Yay!
And now we have a tree that we are splitting up in our yard.
Posted by Amie on Aug 26 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So, I decided to eliminate dairy from my diet to see if that was aiding and abetting my many allergy attacks. That includes milk, all types of cheese, cream cheese, pudding, etc. It hasn’t been fun…soy milk is okay but not getting to put cream cheese on a bagel is true torture. Along w/ not getting any cheese on my burrito wraps and not getting to put parmesan on my pasta. I avoid pizza as it is mostly just cheese. I could go on and on. But the main thing I’ve noticed is I’m just missing the wonderful taste of cheese. My head is still congested and my throat is still very sore in the morning. AND last night, I had another allergy attack that lasted about an hour even after taking meds. So, now my dilemma is do I continue w/ my dairy free diet that I don’t enjoy and see if I just haven’t given it enough time to go through my system or do I just decide that it is something in the air or in our house and give up figuring out what it is? (Although, it had been raining all day…if it had happened a few days ago when it was all blustery and windy, that might have been the case.) Or should I be dairy and soy free? Since lots of the nieces and nephews are also allergic to soy and I think I was as a child???
Posted by Amie on Aug 25 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
We went blueberry picking this weekend. Hard to believe, but it was still a bit early. There was enough to pick to fill 2 nalgene bottles full, but there are more to be picked that will be ready in a couple weeks. Maddy was eating the blueberries straight off the bush!
We also cut down our dead tree this weekend. I will have to load the pictures up once Mat gets home from work, so you can check it out.
Posted by Amie on Aug 22 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Since we have been back, I’ve been noticing it’s cool in the mornings and the evenings and it is beginning to feel like fall. Not that it hasn’t been hot during the day, but the nice cool mornings and evenings make it actually pleasant. It seems kind of early for fall. I do love the cool weather, but I am all ready missing the long evenings. Which does not fare too well for me, since the shortening of days has just begun!!!
Today is my first day of working on Fridays…
