Things are changing along with the seasons - Dave is done with school now and working as a Chef Garde Manger at Lexington Country Club. He's experimenting with foods and deciding what he wants to do long-term and where. I'm finishing up my job doing cultural resource work and starting a new job updating the historic resource survey of Louisville, KY, with the Louisville Bridges Project (full time for at least a year). My mechanic is on his last round of attempts to get my '70 VW Bug running (scary) while I continue to drive the loaner vehicle which is a bit of a gas hog. I'm trying to give our community garden plot a good start for fall - planted some beets, kale, and lettuce (one of the lettuce varieties is from seed saved from the Civil War era - see http://www.seedsavers.org ). We're doing OK and we have had fresh food to eat all summer from the garden (and our great, generous neighbors who have a fun food swap going with us!). I have gotten back on my bike and I have learned more about sustainability in an urban setting and I feel that Dave and I have acquired some more thrifty habits as we've needed to. Times are tight for everyone and it's good to see people riding bikes and buying local.
Faith is feeling better and I'm so glad. Her weight is back to normal and she still seems to be feeling spunky even though she's off all her meds now. She's still on the venison & potato food which we may try switching later to see how she does on something else. Then I guess we'll try adding some things back into her diet to see how she does with them.
Anyway, I live in Lexington, KY, with a crazy black Labrador Retriever named Faith and an equally crazy bass-banjo-and-guitar-playing boyfriend named Dave. I currently work as a historic preservation specialist at Palmer Engineering in Winchester, KY. During 2007 I worked as a survey consultant at the Kentucky Heritage Council (through UK) on the Rural Heritage Development Initiative project. Basically, two of us (as part of the project's first phase) surveyed two of Kentucky's rural, largely unsurveyed counties (Marion and Washington). We sought to discover what historic structures and cultural resources existed at that time. This is important because of development pressures and the loss of farmland nationwide. We hope our efforts encourage historic preservation, farmland preservation, and heritage tourism (including agritourism) in these areas.
When our schedule calms down a little I look forward to many more hikes in Red River Gorge with Dave and Miss Faith the dog (PS - she can't wait to meet you!). See Faith on Dogster and be sure to leave her a bone or vote for her!! She'll give you an e-thump with her big ole tail.
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