Our Yard (part one)

"How does one miss what one has never known?

What longing, then, would drive one to repair the damage" - Noah's Garden - Sara Stein

I have decided to add a feature to my blog called Our Yard. I wanted to call it My Yard but thought that it sounded a little pretentious. I was thinking that our yard is pretty interesting and has a variety of plants and animal life and it would be interesting to investigate and write about what I find. Each new post would be devoted to things I find be it plant, animal or whatever else may show up. Through out the year I would visit the different areas again and make note of the changes that have occured. I am not sure what fall is like down here but I assume that some of the trees around here change color. Spring should be interesting too, I have noticed some interesting trees in our yard and neighborhood that have potential to put on a nice show. Who knows. This will give me an opportunity to get to know my yard and hopefully entertain my friends and other readers.

I suppose that I will give you a preliminary introduction to our yard.

Back Yard

Me in the backyard

(do I always look like that?)

Looking at front porch

Back yard again

Looking towards street

Well thats our yard. Actually there is a lot more to our yard but this was just a preliminary introduction. I look forward to getting to know our yard I hope you do too. It should be fun.

Out in the woods somewhere they crashed for the night and slept the sleep of the just. The just plain satisfied.

So. Here I am. Again, at last. We finally got Internet connected for ourselves. We no longer can hitch a free ride onto the information superhighway through the courtesy of our neighbors wireless Internet.

No matter how much I like free things all good things must come to an end. It is surprising how only a week without it makes you see how dependent you have become on the Internet. I refuse to call it an addiction. I have to admit it gave me the opportunity to go the library and get a library card. The library system down here is amazing. Their main library puts the one in Grand Rapids to shame, sorry folks its true. They have so many books I am excited to wander around and see what I can find. On the bottom level which is the children's level and also the garden level they have a mural of "Where the wild things are". The same picture is on the library card itself.

Things are getting settled, Eva just finished her first full week at school; I am back in the swing of things at work after getting back from my nice little vacation. I hadn't been that emotional about leaving Michigan before my trip but coming back there and visiting with my parents and staying with all my friends really made me realize what I was missing.

I am really enjoying my job. I feel quite comfortable and am quickly beginning to feel that I belong to a family. It is a large mix of people with the minority of them actually being from South Carolina. It is nice to be in an environment that nurtures sustainability and the power of community. I see many people each day who believe in the things I believe in, think in a similar way and generally have great concern for the environment. I am looking forward to developing new friendships and seeing what else South Carolina has to offer us.