look who came to visit in her new spring outfit!

I got to play with DD while her mom weeded and her dad dug a trench to the outside tub - we laughed and looked for good teething things, we tried to crawl, we made more new sounds and we jumped in Johnny jump up. Mojo and Irie kept coming in to check on us.

walked to the see how swollen the river is from the rain we've gotten these past several days and tho the creek's flow is fast, the river is not so high. another day and it will be up. Interesting follow-up from this past Wednesday evening's phone call from mid-wife who lives near - down river - who was in the middle of a delivery when the labor stopped. They had given the woman two homeopathic remedies, "cc" (caulophyllum and cimicifuga) and she had gone to sleep!! Asking more questions I discovered that the woman had arrived fairly anxious as this was an attempt at a vaginal delivery after two c-sections. I suggested Arnica - and Aconite. They were out of Arnica, so my friend drove thru the rain to my house. I was able to look thru my repertory and discovered that Natrum-mur can be helpful when labor stops. So I gave the mid wife Arnica and Nat-mur. Today I find out that the labor began after they gave her Arnica, Aconite and the Nat-mur and the baby was delivered that evening, much to the surprise of my friend. (the contractions were 30 minutes apart when they had called me). A relief to finally know how this turned out as it had been on my mind!

while snow accumulates in Denver, Ezra and Jen are in Paris - where the day looks very similar to skies in Virginia. another gray day, happy garden, happy seeds, happy creek, boisterous river. my imagination has yet to delight in a diet sans gluten, wheat, sugar and fruit - ahhhhhhh

it is hard to be inside, too luscious a day - chickens have no problem, inside only to lay! John surprised himself on the golf course and beat a high school student in the weekend tournament which his team won. Delightful converstion and tea with David Trivette talking chickens, rabbits and the economy and need to have dinner gathering. Played with grandbaby on porch in the sun, with her beaming lovely parents. hoping that spring is happening in Paris too.

a volunteer

spring is official, but cool it is. new year's resolution has me volunteering more, what is it, wanting to feel needed or/and wanting to get myself out of the hollar in the dark time of winter. Trying to fill the vacancies in precinct members for District D in county for the Democratic party; not good with "cold" calls - but wanting to find some eager participants - new faces? I would so love to help defeat Ralph Smith when he runs again for his seat in the Va. Senate - i guess this is a big motivation for me; that and helping with Peggy Frank's campaign if she does run. the afternoon is tugging at me to walk to the river, daffodile heads nodding just off the porch. a brisk walk. then return to calls for democrats and calls to coax friends of library members to bring cookies to April meeting! This morning was a delight: on email with Ezra in Amsterdam and then visit with my beautiful grandchild!

spring! creek is fat all the way to river; forsythia yellow tipped, green green - tips of hard woods reddening. getting out into this day.