Chicken Blog: Getting Out in The New Year

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Getting Out in The New Year

We still have the plague... coughing, congestion, coughing. No one is sleeping well. No one is feeling great. And we're all really bummed about the fun we've been missing. So, rather than sit and stew, we decided to get out. Find a trail. Seek a view. Inhale new air, in a new space. If we can't rest this plague away, then we decided to crush it with sun, breezes, and brisk walks. And from the lagoon to the shore, we found ourselves enjoying a beautiful New Year Day~

2 comments:

Dallas said...: Great photos! I love the boots. Hope the fresh ocean air helped heal you all.; January 2, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...: It was good for the soul!
Thank you for the photo praise... it means a lot coming from you~; January 4, 2014 at 9:54 AM

Chirp-Chirp-Chirp BirdHouse Notes

If you cannot bear to consider politics, if you are done with sourdough starters, puzzles, you could join in me in the blessedly trivial and inconsequential consideration of stucco colors for the wall we are building. Blue house with white trim, facing a low, block wall around a raised bed with tall, grey pines, and green shrubs. White would never stay white. Yellows... no. I love and hate that I have this on my plate.

Also, I have taken to calling the area our National Park, my personal nature center, and I will be adding more California native plants. I am so eager for the days when we open the gate and invite people in. But what color to use on the wall?

September 25, 2020

9:58 am

Rest In Power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

We mourn her passing, but we will not surrender our devotion to democracy. We must rise up, unite, and move forward. Register, and vote. Vote blue, down the ballot. Vote in every election, local, state, and federal. No one person will effect the progress we seek, reverse systems of racism, nor see justice done, so we must fill the seats, everywhere, with justice warriors, intelligent representatives, and we must speak out against tyranny, racism, inequity, and we must speak up for the environment, education, healthcare, and civil rights for all people.

September 19, 2020