tonight i finally got motivated enough to trek down to the community garden and dirty my hands. i have been thinking about it for weeks, but thinking isn't doing. turns out that in order to "do", i simply needed the promise of some good company and a cold beer. it was a lovely night for it, albeit a little warm for my liking (no i am not complaining, how dare i complain about heat after all that complaining about rain...i know). one huge garbage bag filled with weeds, a handful of raspberries and a couple of peas later we called it a night. the plot is halfway there, another night and it will be back in business. i don't know what it is but there is something immensely satisfying about pulling weeds and watching as the beauty of the plants buried beneath come to the surface.

oh, and before i forget, that which was lost has now been found, this time under the seat of my mom's car. hope had long since flown out the window, luckily it came back to find me in the end.

the belle of the ball

tomorrow is my niece reidun's fifth birthday. i can't believe that it has been so long. i remember the day she was born, my brother in a panic on the phone, me working my retail job. i left work early that day and traveled over to north vancouver. i was so excited, the first baby! i also had to retrieve my cats. you see, my brother had agreed to go and pick them up from the airport for me that day, but in the moment he was too fraught to deal with them and so they were sitting in his car (after having already traveled from toronto!). not even at the hospital but halfway up the lonsdale hill where his car had broken down on the way. so the day could have started a little smoother, but the labour wasn't long and the baby was a girl. her name comes from my grandma. many people through the years had used rae in naming their children but none my grandma's full norwegian name, reidun. she was an amazing woman, my grandma, just as reidun is an amazing little girl. i can't wait to see where life takes her.

so happy birthday to you!

my mom, cohen, and i went out to visit her today and we brought some cake with us (never one to refuse the opportunity to indulge). here are a few pictures from our day.




in other, less happy news, it would appear that i have lost my wedding ring. i have lost quite a bit of weight lately and as a result my ring had been growing looser and looser. a couple of days ago i noted that it was possibly too loose to be wearing, but kept it on anyway. today, sometime mid afternoon, i noticed it was no longer on my finger. i don't remember it coming off, nor can i fathom when it might have happened. i know it is just a thing, but a pretty important thing none the less. i hope i find it soon.