Oh dear, a pile of time has gone by. After a much needed break from writing, I'm inspired to jump back in by the mere fact that it's already the last hours of January... Wasn't it just Christmas? And didn't I want to post our New Year's Eve musings? Here we go!
All the notable moments of 2011 that we could, or want to, remember, in no order whatsoever:
multiple marriage proposals on the couch
Salted Straw ice cream with Miz Lynn YUMMA YUMMA
seeing Sean on my birthday
reading Mink River
having our first Christmas tree and the holidays here in our new house
the Harvest Ride in Hood River and eating at Nora's Table
pork short ribs from Pono Farms
our 1st fire in our new wood stove, which so many of our favorite people contributed to!
starry nights on the deck with Kris and Brian
GF lox sandwich at the Green Salmon in Yachats
taking a watercolor sabbatical in Utah with my friend Sue
our owl
Allison drumming the wedding-canoe into shore
letting the 'rents go nuts with the Tiki wedding theme (Thanks, 'rents!)
so many people reading poems at our wedding(s)
nana and brother Tom holding hands
drinking Nobles Coffee on our Ashland escape
shallow river floats
sage and flowers blooming in the meadow below the house after a summer rain
kayaking on Hosmer, blackbirds sliding down the reeds
driving our new table home atop the Subaru
paddling during wildflower bloom at Sparks Lake
breakfast salads at New Seasons on Portland trips
going bowling with everybody and playing Apples to Apples with Darin and Greg on Christmas day
XC skiing on a 50 degree day in January
thinking the river rushing outside was a left-on bathroom fan (sorry, boyfriend...)
getting our very own Angel-Fridge
playing frisbee, badminton, and petonque in Our Very Own Yard
that amazing meal at Trattoria Sbandati on Valentine's, not sleeping at all thanks to the divine espresso, and then having a snow day complete with breakfast in bed!!!!
seeing great old friends at our wedding(s)
stomping to heavy metal at Chicks with Picks with Miz Lisa, starring Miz Jamie
picking out paint colors for the living room, kitchen, etc. with arrrrrrrrrrrtist Lisa
visiting Miz Lisa at Playa and watching her work evolve! go girl!
having a sleep-over Thanksgiving with Blue, Janelle, Scott, and Andrea (Thanks to McCarthy's Single Malt!)
finding a great acupuncturist
having our own river loop to run and watching the seasons change on it
the Post writing retreat, featuring soon-to-be famous Miz Jasper, Miz Sara, Miz Lisa, and Miz Jamie
being grateful for great snow tires
eating at Tasty's in Portland with Blue and Janelle, just before flying to N.E. for the wedding
all the visitors who came and distracted us with champagne the 1st day we cleaned our new house
getting consistently fabulous haircuts from Miz Jasper, poetess
getting the dirty, ugly ceiling painted (thanks, Brian!)
drinking Lone Pine's iced coffee toddy at the Bend Farmer's Market
Portland Cello Project x 2 or 3
vacating the Soulless Subdivision
finally getting a window in Jim's studio
the sound of the river in our bedroom, every night, all night
the way the sun moves around our room through the seasons
finding a wedding dress 3 weeks before the event
watching 5 boys try to put our couch back together?!
nana racing Cleo/Chloe up to bed
our wedding cairn made of Tumalo river rock and Swiss and Floridian shells
long, happy trail runs
watching our 11 year old dog racing through meadows or over snow fields.
It's a wonderful life, ain't it?
This little half bath waited a very long time for paint. It seemed like a good idea to clean our brushes off from all our other projects on these walls, but eventually, the chaos drove us nuts. The original paint was dingy brown, as it was in most of the house?!
This is the downstairs ghetto hallway - greyish paint, dirty carpet, bad lighting... Probably made my clients wonder exactly what kind of massage business I was running in this dark alley...
Hey, I know it's just a cabinet, but it was useless, empty space before. 
