grit your teefs and get down to business!

it is time to grit your teefs and get growing. this year is for bragging rites of who has the biggest pumpkin. i got my family and a few other friends to give it a go this year. i have commandeered the whole garden area in the far back corner of my yard. so i had to build my wife some raised garden beds to offsets my domination of the bigger plot.

the garden boxes are great and they are closer to the house. it is easier to get the herbs for dinner and the salad we want to eat that night. i think this is going to be a great year of the pumpkin. i wonder what confucius would say? and why didn't the chinese have the year of the pumpkin?

having something to get my mind off the state of the world, i have also been riding my scooter a ton. she gives me the freedom i have needed for a few years. life changing events have taken place in the last few years and i was missing something. this pumpkin lifestyle, my scooter, my dogs, and my wife have helped me to find my "happy place."

i want to brag about my wife, Dr. Sundahl, for one paragraph. i am so proud of her and her motivation, not her inability to relax, OCD. she completed her pharmD program at the university of colorado, denver. she has made me a better person, really. getting to know her is and has been the greatest gift of my life. last night she told me a story that i had never heard before and i was smiling about it. she takes me at face value. she is giving and loving, obviously she married me! it has been a struggle for us, with her going to school and me having a hard time finding work. but, we made it!! I LOVE HER!! it has been a joy, even during the hardest times of my life and our lives together. i look forward to what our future holds for us.

now that part of it is over, i look forward to the new challenges we face together. so smart a doctor (thanks cubby) and she is my wife.

we have added a few members to the family. we have another vicious killer named fiona gerturude rana sundahl. the taco bell mishap dog, more later... and we have been expecting this for a while, a new hottub. she is wonderful. helps with my aches and pains. fiona is a terror that i do not wish on anyone but she is ours. she smells the flowers, rips up the carpet, eats beth's shoe insoles, and knocks out her brother's tooth. but she is a magical fit. jackson loves her and lola is happy to be a maternal figure.