You are never going to guess where I was last week...

I attended a fabulous week-long workshop taught by Rosemary Gladstar at Sage Mountain Retreat Center in Vermont and met wonderful new friends from all of the USA. We were taught a variety of subjects by Rosemary and her assistant Amy in the yurt, and were fortunate to listen to guest-speakers as well, including Ann Armbrecht, who created the just-released film 'Numen' - the Nature of Plants (a film about the healing power of plants). All the notes I took will keep me very busy for the next few months and all the warm memories created will stay with me forever...

What just happened on the roof...

The guys have been working real hard to get the forest green metal sheets on, but the project that slowed them down a couple of days was the designing and building of three cupola vents which will support our weathervanes - you can see a couple of them on the photo. What you will not see on the photo is Mike's incident with the roofing air nailer - standing on the roof and hanging on to ropes, he accidently fired a roofing nail into his knee. A quick trip to the hospital, followed by a long wait and various X-rays, the doctor was able to remove most of the nail - so now Mike has been ordered by the doctor to take it easy for a few days...

First things first...

Thought I'd better get a blog in before my birthday...speaking of birthdays, how do you like my Bali Angel my mom bought me in Montreal - isn't she beautiful? Once our herb workshop is built, she will be my 'welcome' angel when you enter my herbal shop - I just love her!

Our youngest son had his first back to school haircut again last week, and our oldest son bought his very own first (used) truck - what excitement! Also, the building inspector came by to do his first inspection on the workshop - we can continue building - yippee!