its been a wonderful past week here, home in oregon, i love it, it is rainy a lot, its an unusually cold spring but I’ve got my little home grown green house going inside, its been a sweet 6 weeks planting and watching my seeds grow,,,I had heard it is very hard to grow tomato’s from seed…I’ve got 21 seedlings and what I heard and believed wasnt true, my neighbor happens to be a locally famous tomato grower (is it tomato or tomatoe?) so I have been learning from her…Last week my sweetie and I got to have a real date, we drove up the coast to watch whales and hike, the moment we pulled over at a scenic look~out he spotted a whale, it was amazing how quickly we saw them, we saw a bunch of blows…then we found our hiking spot, it was a beautiful older mossy wood with trillium, skunk cabbage and little wild flowers coming up we hiked thru the wood to the cape along a cliff over looking the ocean for a bit and then found a cozy spot on a cliff and relaxed there, watching whales, we had binoculars along which was nice, all the sudden a whale started breeching (4 times in all), I was on the phone chatting about b days gifts for my spunky girl and didnt get to fully enjoy it, next time I wont be answering the phone unless I have too while out in nature, it takes away from the serenity…it was still beautiful, it was soggy and wet, its been raining so much, spring keeps teasing us…we planted strawberrys, my sweet neighbor gave us a gob of them, the one who watched our girl and told us to stay out and have dinner even, we went to a local brewery and had the beer sampler, 8 tiny beers came on a wooden handmade tray, we had such a nice time chatting and trying the beer, I realized looking around this place how cool the town we live in is, we saw a guy with a guide dog in Safeway who was wearing a hemp collar today, that you see here…we have two patches in our little growing garden, marc is working so hard around here, he is awesome, he left last night for his second trip out to sea, it was hard having him go, he wanted to keep working to get things done almost until the last minutes of his leaving and all I wanted to do was cuddle…so sadly, i regretted not working with him to do those things so we could have had some cuddle time, he was kind and loving as he left, i love him so much, i miss him…i’ll be happy when he calls and comes home which will only be a few days instead of the usual 2 months, but as I realized yesterday, we have been together since nov with no (long) absense that is the longest in one stretch we have been together in almost two years…i love that man so much, i dont write in my paper journal much anymore, i’m on the computer for work and it feels natural to me to write here, I would go thru some major withdrawls if I no longer had net access. Our little farm is coming together, the seeds we are planting are growing, they grew and brought us here…looking forward to experiencing what they grow into in the coming days,months and years…