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Mountain Mama

I donated about 6 bags of old clothes yesterday.  As I was sorting through them, I began wondering if someone makes hiking gear for pregnant ladies.  Someone does.  And that someone is Mountain Mama. 

Also...I love this lady:

Mango Woman

Here we are at 17 weeks.  I guess the Fletch is finally starting to grow a little!  My state park wardrobe of hoodies and fleece vests (I'm not complaining...best wardrobe ever) still disguise me nicely...so I'm still getting eye contact...not eye to belly.  I've moved over to some maternity shirts thanks to my generous mother and Kay, and I have one pair of pants left.  When I look at my regular clothes and think of packing them up I end up just wanting to get rid of them.  When you work outside and hike for a living things get torn and dirty.  Pants especially do not enjoy a long life when you're hunting for frogs and fish with toddlers.  I may just start over after this baby is borned.  Especially if Collette keeps bringing me these at work (OMG thank you!  I ate Dots and Bottlecaps and Nerds today!): 

In other news, Leo, my...most special...chicken...laid an egg today!  She lays one pretty blue egg about once every three months!  "Nice work Leo.  Damn freeloader ".   

This morning I woke up to Colin repeating the phrase "MANGO WOMAN" loudly, half asleep.  He spent most of last night researching a place to stay in Key West.  (Mango Woman is a Ween...song-ish...I was going to include a video but I won't even bother).  I guess the B&B is called the Mango Tree Inn or something...Anyway...we're going to Florida in February and spending several days checking out the Keys...ending in Key West.  We're both so excited about the opportunities that await...crocodiles, alligators, birding, fishing, snorkling, lying on the beach...and the food!  Last night I cracked my Flavors of the Keys cookbook to see what I could learn. First, of course, the Keys are famous for their limes, which look more like small lemons than anything else.  (Authentic Key Lime pie should be yellow, not green).  Also, there are no Key Lime groves on the keys anymore.  The islands are also famous for conch.  But the conchs have been overfished and can no longer be caught off US shores.  So the conch that you get to eat on the keys is most likely frozen and imported.  I haven't figured that one out yet. I miss the warm sun like whoa. Can't wait for this trip!

Thursdays are always pizza night at our house.  Sometimes we're lazy and order from Pope's (I love Hawaiian), but mostly I stop into Roma's, the local Italian deli, on my way home and get the fixins for a homemade pie.  I'll share our recipe tomorrow.

And...since I refuse to link to the Mango Woman "song", I'll leave you with southern tune instead:



What your coffee table says about you...

I've spent the morning reading and listening to the Grateful Dead with a cup of coffee in my hand...waiting for Hattie's Brunch time with some friends. Over the horizon of my laptop is a giant pile of books, magazines and various other Alli paraphernalia.  I thought I'd write the titles down in a list to see what they say about my life right now...so here it is, in pile order:

Positive Discipline
Breaking New Ground (Gifford Pinchot's biography)
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (courtesy of Kay)
The Flavors of the Florida Keys
College photo album
The Quarter Acre Farm
Another college photo album (leftover from sharing some oldies with AO1)
 Union membership card
What to Expect
2012 Maine Potato Lady Seed Potato catalog
Phish sticker
Bon Appetit
Natural Home and Garden
Natural Health
John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds
Organic Gardening
Audubon Magazine
Headphones
Burgess Seed & Plant Catalog
Potato Chips
Chocolate Milk Lid

What's on your table?

-4 F this morning! How did the chickens do?

Wondering what our child will be like?

Twelve week ultrasounds for a blustery day...

High Five!



Four Months

Fifteen