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summer

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About Me

i am a mother, a gardener,a person who looks to find beauty and good in the world and sometimes gets pretty pissed about the out come. i like most all people and i take pride in that.the world is vast and complex, beautiful and terrible. i like to think of that, it matters to me. travel layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com
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My Interests

Cooking, Cormac McCarthy, The Wilds of Wyoming, Knitting, My Family, Peace, Beer, Conversation, Dreaming, Nature, Horses, Swimming, Hiking, The Wind, Stained Glass, Gardening, Semantics, Friends, Craziness, Trees, Quilting, Thinking AND Feeling

Shakira Featuring Danzig "Hips Don't Lie"
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I'd like to meet:

PEOPLE"whats the earth with all its art, verse and music worth, compared with love, found, gained and kept?" robert browning

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Tool, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Misc middle eastern, Alison Krauss, Johnny Cash, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Drag the River, The Eagles, The Beastie Boys, Ryan Adams, Pete Yorn, Hit and Run, Tim Mcgraw, David Gray, Jerry Garcia, Mark Knopfler, Hypnotic Clam Bake, Engine 54

Movies:

The African Queen, Harold and Maude, Sophies Choice, Microcosmos, Happy Accidents, Napoleon Dynamite, The Dark Crystal, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Gone With the Wind, Love Actually, The Weeping Camel, Sling Blade, Spring Forward, All the Pretty Horses, 21 Grams, The Three burials of melquiades, Dr Zhivago

Television:

Not so much

Books:

Anything by Steinbeck or Cormac McCarthy (esp. Suttree), Cold Mountain, Running with Scissors, Middlesex, The Hobbit, A Short History of Just about Everything, The Meadow, Dreams and the Underworld, The Never Ending Story, Tiger Flower, Dr Zhivago, Wuthering Heights, The Living, Sometimes a Great Notion

Heroes:

Anyone who lives their beliefs and isn't afraid to take what that brings

My Blog

Shakira Featuring Danzig "Hips Don't Lie"

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Posted by summer on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:47:00 PST

i love MY neighborhood

i love my neighborhood. it is almost all older homes from the 20s and 30s. they range from charmingly cute to stately to "wow is that the queens house?" our house  is in somewhere a bit bigger th...
Posted by summer on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:36:00 PST

closer still

the summer is winding up and the weather is finally nice. on sunday rob, deia and i headed to the lake. we are reclining at our favorite "secret" beach when here comes someone with 2 kids a cooler, a ...
Posted by summer on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:08:00 PST

trying to find our home

i never seem to find time for blogging. i will keep this brief. basically, it is glorious to be back in portangeles. i love running into old friends and enemies and acquaitences. the scenery is wonder...
Posted by summer on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:22:00 PST

almost gone

I had my friend, Becca in from wyoming for a week. She reminded me of all the ways that I have changed and grown older and also of my remaining ability to be irresponsible. Her excitement over Germany...
Posted by summer on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:54:00 PST

thursday night

Today, on the tv, they showed an american idol contestant,  flying into seattle. I burst in to tears. burst. i guess that on a daily basis now for years, i stifle my disatisfaction with being her...
Posted by summer on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:35:00 PST

life lately

Since getting married at the end of 2003, life has been a little more intense. While Rob was working as a medic in Iraq, I worked with Molly and Cypress to create and open a restaurant/bar in our home...
Posted by summer on Thu, 10 May 2007 12:27:00 PST