Absent Once Again

Once again I seem to have taken an unintended leave of absence from blogging. Not that it's a big deal, since I was actually interacting with many of you in person rather than through a silly website. But I still miss sharing my thoughts with the world on my own personal soapbox.

I've been keeping busy, since Steven and I drove up to Minnesota and then Wisconsin for Christmas with both of our families. I'm still trying to catch up from that. Then we're driving back up for a wedding this weekend. EEK! At least the weather has been pretty favorable.

I'm eating a pink orange for lunch. A Cara Cara orange, to be exact. Rather amusing. I'd forgotten that's what it was until I opened it up.

Work continues to go well. I'm starting to fill up my schedule with presentations at the senior centers and meetings with groups interested in community garden and youth urban gardening. I'm also going to be going to the Great Plains Vegetable Conference in St. Joseph, MO next week. I'm excited to go to a conference where I get to learn and gain ideas for programming here this year.

I think it's going to be a challenge to be busy but not overwhelmingly busy. Some people would absolutely love it if I would go to every single training session and event that might conceivably be construed to fit into my job description. Sorry, not going to happen. Even so, I will be happy as things get a little more busy here after Christmas. It's been a quiet couple of weeks. It still takes me aback a little to realize how different the climate is here. People are starting to prune their fruit trees already...something we would normally not do until March farther north!

At any rate, hopefully this has given you a bit of an update. I'll probably get around to more regular blogging later this month...or next month... It'll be nice once I get back into a regular routine with all sorts of things.