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Lovely. But I don’t see the baby anywhere in that photograph.
I’m a bit sleepy this morning…how is everyone else?
Do you feel like you’re in some sort of time warp, where the actual hours of day and night are meaningless?
Yes. I know CBtY goes back to school tomorrow, and CBtE the day after that, and that I need to let the work folks know the little man is here, but that’s it. It’s cocoon time for this family. 🙂
Yeah, me too. Its so cold here, the plastic bag on the newspaper shattered like glass when I picked it up at daybreak.
Yikes. And I was complaining about our frigid temps in the 20s. Perhaps if I wore shoes and a coat when taking the dog out…
It was 4 the last time I looked – brrrrr!
I think we’re in the 20s, with similar wind chills today. Brrr.
I’m glad I don’t have to go anywhere for a while.
With good reason! We’re having some lovely frigid weather here.
The only good thing about the cold is that it makes me happy to be inside today. This winter baby thing is a whole new world for me, because the CBs were born in spring/summer.
Gorgeous pic! I wish I were there–it’s 8 below zero here!
I wish I were there too – it’s Isola Pescatore in Lago Maggiore, Italy.
It’s the perfect place for a cannoli baby!
to my thinking this morning. 🙂
I can’t believe how sweet this little cannoli is, btw. He’s a bit of a chatterbox…I don’t think that came from his dad. He definitely does have dad’s hair color though.
If he starts muttering about frog marching, you’ll know you’re wrong about the origin of the chattiness. 😉
We had Meet the Press on for a few minutes this morning…mama was able to tell Finn that David Gregory is a tool. Life lessons to learn early. 🙂
CG – I never got a chance to tell you..
CONGRATS!!!!!!! He is beautiful. Hearing about births always brings back memories of my son’s. It is the most awesome experience – the knowlege that you’d cross broken glass to get to this little person if he needed you…anyway, mine just got his Masters, LOL. Different ends of the experience. Sort of – mine is STILL my baby.
All my best, G
Thanks. I think he’s gorgeous too. 🙂
And congrats to your son on his Masters. My older boys are 14 and 17, so it’s interesting to be starting over at this point – I’ve been teasing them about having to start over so I wasn’t the shortest one in the house any more. 🙂
So pleased to see you back & posting, CG!
Is Finn actually a messenger from some fierce Celtic weather-god? Seems like he & the deep chill arrived simultaneously.
Alternately: could be that he’s simply destined for a stellar career in musical theatre!
🙂
Sending many warm thoughts your way on this extra chilly winter day.
Thank you – we’re rather proud of the kid. My husband and I are not maternal/paternal types, but this young man turned out well. Who would have known, LOL?
BTW, I know several folks who have “second rounds of kids” either through multiple marriages or surprise pregnancies. They are very happy, albeit tired, people.
Hi CG – so glad that all went well. Lovely thought of you all snuggling in the cabin w/ new baby Finn. 🙂
(Love your sig line … lol)
Howdy & Happy New Year, Miss O! Hope the year started beautifully for you.
Hi dear ww … and the same wishes to you as well. xo 🙂
Thank you!
Thanks, olivia.
How have you been? One of my new year’s resolutions is to make the rounds of some of my old favorite blogs while I have some time off from work. 🙂
Any blogs you would rec? (beside the one we’re on, of course)
After wanting to throw the alarm clock across the room, it wasn’t all that bad to get back to work (school system). The kids were mellow 🙂
Well, there’s parvum opus, which has some wonderful photography…smitten kitchen if you like to cook, knitspot has awesome knitting designs and gardening in the summer…
Doing okay … 🙂 Trying to keep warm and doing a lot of shovelling snow like a lot of peeps here. Here’s a snow and ice pic (after the ice storm last week, everything was coated which made it kind of pretty).
I’m putting in a formal request to you and Boo: Keep the baby Finn pics coming! 🙂
WOW! I’m sorry about the cold, but those are gorgeous photos.
I’ll do my best with the Finn pics. 🙂
These are very pretty. The way an ice storm completely transforms the environment is always amazing to me & a source of wonder.
We generally get them later in the season, in late Feb or March.
Good Morning to everyone from BACK TO WORK DAY. Blech. Like most people what I really want/need right now is a vacation to recover from our vacation. But noooooo.
and after a long weekend at that. Definitely a day to go with the flow.
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Love that photo! Don’t work too hard today, Andi.
Thanks, b2. Hope you have your day goes well … or at least very fast.
Hope your day goes quickly.
We’re having another bitter cold day today. It was nice of winter to show up for Christmas and all, but this is overkill. 🙂
Seconding b2’s picture love. 🙂
My condolences on the Monday thing for all who are returning to work today. Finn’s arrival means my only real job this week is to love him up and take naps…
… and get up every couple of hours all night long.
I try not to focus on that… 🙂
I’m really lucky that I slept well all through my pregnancy, and had a week to rest up before he was born. Boo is experiencing the freight train effect of less than adequate sleep for the first time, and it is hitting him pretty hard, I think.
Are you and the pack heading out in this cold?
Poor Boo. Hope he adjusts soon.
Yep, we’ve gone out every day in the single digits temps (woo hoo, today it’ll be in the teens!). Talk about suffering for your art — it’s really painful to take off the gloves to take a picture (thought I do have thin glove liners under my gloves to keep it from being dangerous).
Ugh, I’m such a baby. 19 degrees and I’m shivering like a damn southerner. And we’re out of cat food, coffee and toilet paper so I pretty much have to go out soon.
Wow, if it’s 19 where you are, I wonder what it is here? (just checked: 20.)
I think you should send one of the kids out for that stuff. It’s the least they could do. 🙂
I think so too. I made them skyline chili yesterday, dammnit.
How’s that baby and his gargantuan feet? 🙂
cat food, coffee and toilet paper
The absolute essentials, really.
Good morning, wench! Yep, it doesn’t get more essential than that. Now if there was just money in the bank… 🙂
That sort of thing really helps, no?
I’ve been offered quite a few kitties for adoption this past year, but I’ve got no income & couldn’t do it properly. A housecat’s natural instincts can only take it so far — especially when a vet is called for.
I hope you followed CG’s advice and got the boys to go out for you. I’d hate to think of you coffee-less.
I’ve been coffee-less for about 10 months now & I’m still not over it.
A new neighbor (currently paying his mountain dues) gave me these great fingerless gloves for Christmas — without even knowing about my insane photographic tendencies. They’re extremely luxurious, lined with fleece, made in Nepal.
I wore them this morning for the following pictures — a different take on some from the FFFlog.
Here’s a gratuitous cat picture. She likes the gloves too.
Those are some luscious gloves. I like how they’re a glove/mitten hybrid. Mittens are warmer because all of your fingers can hang out together and keep each other warm, but you can’t accomplish anything with your hands. Gloves separate all of your fingers, which really bugs the shit out of me (like those toe socks) and aren’t as warm, but you can at least drive and pick things up with them. Lovely shots. I feel like I have to make some hot tea and snuggle up in a blanket.
That’s what I’d advise today, for sure. Sounds great.
If I could, I’d order a pair of these mits for you. They’re made by Nirvanna Designs. I’ve been ogling similar gloves at L.L. Bean & others for months, but I couldn’t make the investment (I shop exclusively at the town
dumprecycling center)– so this was a real nice surprise.I was up early to clean off my housemate’s car/direct the plow-dude & I’m now ready for a blanket myself.
That is amazing – perfect gift without knowing it!
Oddly enough, this type of thing isn’t uncommon around here. Maybe a certain type of ‘group mind’ functions advantageously in a small community.
🙂
But “group mind” por los BUENOS 🙂
Si.
I love your neighbor — anyone who makes sure I get more of your pictures to see is absolutely deserving of adoration. 🙂
I really like the second picture — the way the gate leads my eye deeper into the woods.
You’d hike that road to the Red Hill Firetower, one of just a handful of original towers in the region that are maintained (by community volunteers) & open to visitors. It would be a ridiculously easy hike for you — only about 20 minutes of a very gradual, winding ascent. Fantastic views await at the top, where there’s also a weather station.
The head of the path, here at the farm, was once open to the public as an extension of the public road. Since sheep were raised here, you could order your lamb from the farmer on the way up & pick it up on the way down.
It’s no longer the public road, just the end of my housemate’s driveway.
What Andi said!
Love the kitty photo … look at those whiskers. 🙂
They are amazing, aren’t they? I think that’s where she keeps her brains.
🙂
The center one invites cross-country skis. I haven’t had an opportunity to use mine for ages. Its such a good way to slip up on the local fauna.
Are cross-country skis suitable for an uphill climb? This one goes from about 2000′ to almost 3000′.
A mild grade is not so bad. Really steep grade and I’d have to hike up.
I recommend skijoring when faced with long up-hill stretches.
Those gloves look yummy. Perfect for things that require momentary use of fingers (like car seat buckles), while keeping everything covered when you need it.
Beautiful photo, Andi! How lovely to see the forest floor. I don’t guess I’ll sniff that lovely loam again ’til about April.
The forest aroma is pretty much gone for the winter — we don’t get that much snow but nothing much is alive. And right now everything is frozen solid.
The smells of the waking earth in Spring is still something that makes it all worthwhile for me.
Smelling the earth on that first day it went above freezing along the North Coast (Cleveland)was always the signal that I might just survive another winter.
Very Tao – love it!
Thanks. It was unusual in that the rain (which if you look closely you can see falling on the creek) actually cleared the air rather than clouding it as it usually would — so a rather zen effect.
The leaves are nicely lit too. How’d you get ’em to do that on a cloudy day?
I think the clouds were actually lifting a bit as it started raining very hard for just a few minutes. I particularly liked the single rather bright left in the foreground (in the creek). I did use histogram adjustment to bring the light out somewhat.
What? No photos of the CabBooSE?
New one on the front page. 🙂
How’d your Monday go?
I think we deserve out own baby pic here in the cafe.
What SN said — maybe as the top photo.
I think we deserve a CBtB cafe with multiple pictures.
I mentioned over on a FP Finn thread that Markos posted a babyblog over at Big Orange (when it was still Small Orange) that followed his wife’s pregnancy & his son’s first few months. It was basically just pictures, Kos’ comments & baby talk (I mean, talk about babies). I think it ended at about the time the site went pro with Scoop.
It was similar to what BT has with regional blogs & the cafe’.
So there’s a thought — a one-stop shop for all things Finn.
🙂
That sounds like a great idea. Plus it’s the perfect way to experience a newborn. We get all that cute but never have to get up in the middle of the night or change a diaper. 🙂
Second the idea. And others can post embarassing baby shots of their now older kids.
I like that idea. I have a 17 year old who could use a bit of a comeuppance this week. 🙂
For those of us who had kids in the 80s and 90s, embarrassing pictures usually meant a hideous perm or fashion nightmares on mom or dad. Shoulder pads? Really?
Or you could post a baby picture of Ryan with arrows pointing to all the places on her body she’s injured.
I’m not sure we would still be able to tell it was Ryan under all those arrows.
Morning all. It’s a mild and windy Wednesday here – a good day for drying laundry. I spent Monday mostly in Hobart and yesterday working in the northern part of the island, so now I have “around the house” catch-up chores to do. It’s always something . . . .
Here, today would have been a good day for freezing laundry.
Freezing laundry actually allows you to knock the ice crystals off, which gets clothes dryer, if not actually dry. 😉
Mrs. ID used to do that to the boys when girlfriends came over.
Yes, babyblog – just how I like my babies – vicariously.
I’d tell you how Monday went, but it’s Wednesday and I’ve already forgotten. Tuesday I didn’t even get home until near dark. This work stuff sucks.
But it is the first one of 2010.
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The first, but nowhere near the last.
We had to have our first 3000 gallons of water delivered for the Summer. That usually lasts us about 6 weeks if we don’t get any rain.
That should be a good reminder to all of us not to be wasteful in our use of water.
Are you expecting a dry summer?
Unfortunately, that is the forecast.
I’ll bet Luna and Lily/Lilly are willing to forgo getting any baths as their contribution to conservation efforts.
I’ll bet they are too. Whether Imogen and Keres are willing to do that is another story… 🙂
New cafe posted btw. Baby blogging to follow later this morning.
You know, linguistically speaking the elder CabinBoy is now the eldest and the younger one takes over the elder spot. Not that online handles have to follow rules of grammar . . . .
Hmm…but everyone already knows who CBtE and CBtY are. Changing things up would be so confusing, don’t you think? And CBtM sounds like a demotion to the middle…
Can I just gush about how sweet little Finn is for a minute? Or would I sound too much like a lovestruck new mom?
I’m sure they would be, but unfortunately for them they get their baths at the dog wash – and there is now one about twenty minutes closer to our place than the one we’ve been going to for the last two years. Which may result in even more bathing than before. Poor, poor benighted puppies.
I tried leaving the ducklings outside today. They were having none of it and put themselves back. Boogie however, decided to stay outside and leave the kids to their own devices. Which works out well because their new owner will probably pick them up within the week. Just in time for the next clutch to take over the space (a large completely enclosed dog kennel).
The baby ducks reaction was exactly Giddy’s when we first arrived and we were told she was an outside dog. She settled right down on a dog bed and rolled her eyes.