We Didn't Go Across the Bay - Self Love and Finding Joy - How To Lose A Pipe - Amazing Grass Giveaway Winner

Here's why we didn't go across the bay after all today - 

- the fog rolled in! It's amazing - we're literally in a blanket of fog, but it's only about 6 degrees cooler than yesterday, when the sun was out. So I will announce the winner of my Amazing Grass giveaway today after all - at the end of this post!

Some pictures from two days ago when it was unabashedly sunny - potatoes that I tickled out of the ground reflecting the sun -

- and a harvest of spuds!

Tina's reflections on self-love post this morning reminds us to look for joy - and to find it - here and now in what we do with our lives. Her post resonated so perfectly for me: just like her, I'd gone back to bed for some extra snuggling with my husband rather than jump on my work as soon as I got up.

And we've been finding joy in the day even postponing our berry adventures. A potentially very frustrating story: Phil can't find the pipe that runs from our sink, that is failing to drain! He ran it out to the edge of the bluff last fall and insulated it. Now, if we spill water in the sink it doesn't run out, so we have to cart out dishwater in the little basin we keep in the sink. He dug where he thought the pipe was, so that he could unblock it - and he can't find it! 

He dug a hole crotch-deep, and that isn't a pipe down there in the hole, it's a retaining rope. He's been looking and digging on and off for two days, and no sign of the pipe! This could be infuriating and frustrating, but I just think it's too funny. And at this point, Phil's thinking he'll just start over with a whole other pipe and give this one up for lost.

I was talking before about wanting my plants to go to seed and the growing season being too short and cool - one thing that's gone to seed in a big way has been arugula! I pulled some out today, and will save some of the seeds, but Phil is concerned that if I leave it all to self-seed, we'll have more than we know what to do with next year - the mustard family likes it up here, that arugula got big!

The smoke behind me is a brush-pile that Phil is burning. My man loves him his chainsaw! He'd taken out a bunch of alder trees, that take over everything otherwise, when we started our building project. We'll use the ashes to amend our soil (potash).

For further joy, we went hiking on the beach despite the fog. The picture at the top of this post shows the view. We always find beautiful things when we hike on the beach - it's hard not to bring the whole beach home, there are so many awesome rocks! Here's Phil with the most darling little feather - 

- and then we put it in a little snail-shell we found -

- precious.

Now for the selection of the two winners of the Amazing Grass Giveaway!

Please bear with me if I do this clunkily - I haven't done it before.

There were 38 entries for the giveaway, many of them multiple by a single person, so with two winners, everyone had a fairly good chance.

Using the random number generator at this website, I was given number 11 and number 30. So…comment #11 was by Bitt! And…comment #30 was by Amber Shea! Congratulations to both of you! Please drop me a line with your contact info so that I can get your goodies sent to you.

Have a great evening, everyone! What joy did you find today?