~Inspiration~

  Beginning this blog must have been exactly what I needed because now as I sit with my notebook next to me there are 48 individual sticky notes sitting there.  The creativity has taken a hold of me and I keep adding to it. Inspiration hitting me like lightning, I jot down each idea to preserve it as a new idea hits me suddenly. If you are following me here there are so many things I want to do that you will see this blog change rapidly soon. I have plans to start a recipe section and am currently working on a natural remedies posting.  I want to also show off the things I am making, and have made already. Then there are plans for an Etsy Shop.  Where on earth will I find the time? But it really sounds so fun.  Wouldn't that be wonderful? To be able to craft for a living? I alreadyt devote so much of my free time to it. And I would love to share the things I make with the world.  Just having the idea made me feel like a new person.  Maybe it's the weather. Last week we had snow, and this week it looks like spring has finally arrived here in Eastern Maine.

 I tried to take my son to the thrift store on Monday (we have a wonderful one here, very cheap and always interesting.) He likes to get science books, I have to limit each trip as we would have such a library at home.  But I love his interest and nurture it. We found out the thrift store was closed so we walked along the back side we decided to go to the library instead.  Bad Little Falls is all thawed out  finally and as we walked along the backside my son was smiling and enjoying the view. I asked him if he'd like to take a picture. He took these two.  I told him how beautiful they are.

We decided to go to the library to look for books to take home.   He selected two Steven Hawking books (his personal hero) and Howl's Moving Castle, a favorite Studio Ghibli film of ours.  He wanted to take home all five Steven Hawking books but I assured him he could borrow them after he read the ones we picked out.  I choose The Way of Zen by Alan Watts.  Tiny town, teeny library. I did eye some natural remedy books and immediately regretted not picking them up.  There is always next time. When we got home I read it him the first 50 pages of Howl's Moving Castle.  Our normally indifferent cat listened to me read to my son.


 We had a good supper that night, pan fried salmon in coconut oil, baked avocado, and brown rice.  I guess this is weird. My mother said that she had never heard of cooking avocado. All I did was half them, salt them and set them on the rack of the oven on 400 degrees for about 20 minutess. So I'll have to try it out on her next time. It was very good.  I love salmon, it really is my favorite food. I even like it raw (sushi!).