tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69578372517918089002024-03-12T14:24:51.795-10:00The road is long and life is short.........So join me as I explore my own long road, from Maine to Antarctica to the UK, and most things inbetween. This blog is my ramblings from the daily life of a deep-sea biologist living as an alien in the USA, and a way to keep my family and friends in the loop that is my life without filling up everyones mailbox!RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1055125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-81226127664604558012016-03-07T14:15:00.000-10:002016-03-07T14:15:04.206-10:00Someone in One! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-79729922063331714482016-02-26T15:44:00.003-10:002016-02-26T15:44:39.897-10:00Sorrow and JoyIt's been a rough few weeks. Back to back colds, our old cat having surgery, then having to have surgery again as she got infected, and then having to make the hard decision that is was time to let Miss Barkley go, at the grand old age of 15.5. She'd been getting progressively worse, stumbling went to falling, no desire to go for walks (not that she ever was much of a fan!), missing many food fall events, and taking a long time to eat. It was so hard, as still in the mornings she'd play like a puppy with your fingers, but her butt got lower and lower to the ground and it was obviously becoming hard for her. I'd always been told "you'll know when", but now i've been through it I don't think that's true. I think if we'd waited until we 'knew', we'd have waited to long. I didn't want her to get to the point of being in pain all the time, but it had got to the point of her having more bad times than good. Our wonderful vet came out to the house and helped us say goodbye, in front of the fire with a fistful of cookies. We already miss tripping over her every time we walk through the kitchen, as she was always there, ready for food fall. I feel pretty honored to have known Miss Barkley and had the opportunity to look after her retirement. She was a weird and yet amazing dog, so much personality rolled into a mix of fluff and growl. We did well together, we met Brandon, we had our little family (even before Dylan arrived), it'll be weird going on from here in Maine without her.<br />
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And then this happened the next day (planned that way so we could feel some joy again). His first birthday photos (we haven't seen them all, this is a "sneak peek"). Though timid at first, he warmed right up when the cake came out. Hard to believe our little monkey will soon be one. </div>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-1242797748768772082016-01-26T15:44:00.000-10:002016-01-26T15:44:13.939-10:00Alaska! We got back from Alaska a few days ago, and have just about readjusted to East Coast time. We had a great time - my research went well, and Dylan is quite the easy traveller. I loved having my boys with me on this trip, made the 2 weeks far more bearable! Next stop, Sweden in April!<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-45724916311697695012015-12-25T14:03:00.000-10:002015-12-25T14:03:52.945-10:00Merry Christmas from Maine! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some pics from the season and a promise to update more often! Little guy is growing fast, we all survived Antarctica unscathed, he's crawling and climbing up a storm (and pulling up on everything!), we're all headed to Alaska in January (I have fieldwork and we didn't want to be apart again!). Should be a fun year - hope you've all had a great 2015 and Christmas season! </div>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-38115972449647266512015-09-10T09:38:00.000-10:002015-09-10T09:38:22.574-10:00Food Food, Glorious Food! Out little guy has been "eating food" for a week now, and so far is loving it. We wanted to go the "baby led weaning" route of giving just whole foods to chew on, but our daycare is more comfortable with mush, so we decided to do a mixture of both. We'd hoped he'd just have mush at lunch with daycare, and whole foods with us, but it turns out the little guy loves his mush as much as chewing on large pieces of broccoli.....so we now do both for him!<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-18656178464472522182015-08-29T14:27:00.000-10:002015-08-29T14:27:03.101-10:00North CarolinaLong time no update, sorry! Where to start.....I guess our trip to North Carolina to visit Brandon's grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins. This was in late July, Dylan was just shy of 5 months and did fantastically. Two planes down and two planes back and not a single grumble on any of them. The wall to wall traffic from Boston to Maine.....not so much!<br />
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<b><br /></b>RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-49375931940421581002015-07-21T08:11:00.000-10:002015-07-21T08:12:32.953-10:004 Months old! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still our super smiley boy, always happy to meet new people and beam at them. He loves to swing, has perfected his front to back role and is ready to move! He can now grab his toes, and does so at every opportunity. He's almost sitting unassisted too, and recognizes the dogs as they go by (usually giving them a big grin and reaching out to try and grab them!).<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-60499139811673777992015-07-15T05:34:00.002-10:002015-07-15T08:32:44.910-10:00And back again....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back again from sea, boy ten days (well eleven counting travel) really seemed like a long time. The month in Antarctica in October is going to be REALLY hard. Brandon enjoyed his time with Dylan though, really embraced it, and although there were some rough nights, dadda came through it all, as we knew he would. We're pretty lucky to have such an amazing guy in our life...:)</div>
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Other big developments here is that i've finally been offered, and have accepted, a tenure track job at UMaine. So finally off the hamster wheel of having to find my own salary from research grants, UMaine will now pay me 9 months of salary per year, and in turn I can teach more, which i'm really looking forward to. So maybe we are here for a long time after all....come January i'll have lived in Maine for longer than i've lived anywhere since leaving home at 18, now that will be a record! Good thing we really like it here....:) </div>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-25657361493770580992015-06-25T05:54:00.002-10:002015-06-25T05:54:26.271-10:00A visit to Woods Hole and preparing to head to sea....Well, time flies, and my first research cruise as a mum is coming up fast (i leave tuesday for ten days). The good news is that we have enough expressed breastmilk that he'll remain a breastfed baby while i'm out, the bad news is that i'm going to miss my boys. Even worse is he's just hit a "no sleep" period for the last few days (we thought it was travel this weekend....but its now thursday), so I feel pretty guilty leaving Brandon with that for ten days. He's working hard at growing and has developed several new skills (rolling over (!), reaching for toys and finding his feet) so i'm sure has hit the 4 month sleep regression stage. We're also trying to unswaddle him at night (because of the rolling over), so i'm sure that's affecting his quality of sleep too, he slept so well swaddled. I know he'll settle eventually into a new rhythm, I just wish he'd do it before I go!<br />
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This weekend we headed to Woods Hole to catch up with friends (and hit Ikea on the way home - the upstairs remodel is finally done, just have to wait for the carpet to offgas for a few weeks and we'll be moving in! Photos to follow soon!). It was wonderful, we got to go to the beach, dip our toes in the ocean (it was a little cold for Dylan, he wasn't too impressed!) and spend time with good friends.<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-84546433627694946502015-05-30T11:53:00.000-10:002015-05-30T11:53:30.483-10:00A quick trip to Lubec...and back to work....My first week back at work just passed, and Dylan's first week at daycare. Very mixed feelings, I love my job and enjoyed being back, but I would so dearly have liked to take longer, but unfortunately in Maine (and most of the US) you can only take 12 weeks unpaid, then it's back to work. I feel like he's just got so much more interactive, and we've just got over a major hump in breastfeeding...and now it's all change. Even just this first week i've seen my (already low) milk supply tank, so this weekend and next week i'll be back on herbal supplements to hopefully be able to keep my supply going for as long as I can. With them pushing hard for nothing but breastmilk for the first 6 months, it sure would be good to have had 6 months at home to give it the best chance possible. And, to be honest, he's just so much fun to be around, he's such a happy little chap, and in this last few days has even started full on giggling.....how can you not want to spend more time with that....:)<br />
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As a last hurrah before going back to work, we spent the weekend in Lubec, the furthest east you can go in the USA. We spent it with our dear friends at a camp that belongs to family, and had a real blast....:)<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-81616344361289409472015-05-06T14:16:00.001-10:002015-05-06T14:16:40.824-10:00Dylan's not so excellent adventure......We knew ER visits were on the cards having a little boy, so rough and tumble and we have every intention of letting the trees be climbed and the bruises happen. But we didn't quite expect those visits to start so soon.<br />
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A few weeks ago little Dylan started having (small amounts of) blood in his diapers combined with a few hours of straining and screaming (heartbreaking for mamma) pain, so we took him to the pediatrician who gave him a thorough look over and diagnosed a milk protein allergy. No more ice cream for mamma, I gave up all diary and soy to try and make him better (anyone who knows how much I love cheese will know that was/s hard!). No more bloody poop for a while (ten days maybe), it seemed to have worked until he started having the episodes of pain and straining again, only being relieved by having a big (bloody) poop.<br />
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Unrelated (we thought) a week ago we noticed two lumps in his belly, so again headed to the pediatrician (again on a weekend...do they work weekdays?) who diagnosed inguinal hernias and referred us to the pediatric surgeons in Portland a week and a bit later. Saddened that he'd need surgery, we were told it wouldn't be urgent, but he'd need it within a month or two, just so it never became an issue.<br />
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Then this saturday rolled around. Saturday he had a pain episode that lasted much of the day, and by 3pm or so, he'd started to refuse to eat. His hernia lumps also felt hard, though weren't discolored or warm (warning signs we'd been told to look out for). A call to the pediatrician and they asked us to go to the ER. We headed out, with me sat in the backseat to watch over our little man. Literally as we were less than 5 minutes from the hospital he woke up, looked at me, let out a giant toot (and poop!) and started smiling - our little man was back to normal. Being worried though we still took him in, he alternated between flirting with the nurses and feeding! The doctor looked him over and even pushed his hernias back in, showed us how to massage them to help with his pain, and told us to make sure we didn't miss our appt in portland on Tuesday. Happier, though slightly scared and hoping Tuesday would roll around soon, we headed home.<br />
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Sunday by midday it all started again. This time we didn't wait as long to call the pediatricians office, particularly as his hernias felt very solid this time and it didn't matter how much we massaged them he was still in pain, and they again told us to head to the ER. Expecting the same as the day before, we headed in, but we got to the ER and he was no better, and just started to refuse to feed. The same doctor was on, looked him over and tried to reposition his hernias, but couldn't, so called the pediatric surgeons in Portland and prepared to transfer us by ambulance down to Portland Children's Hospital. My, and Dylan's first (and hopefully last) ambulance ride. As we were carted off, Brandon headed home to drop Barkley at our friends, pick up clothes and square away the house. <br />
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During the ambulance ride, Dylan finally pooped and started to feel better, gave the EMTs some smiles (they gave him a bear in return!) and proceeded to sack out from exhaustion. We arrived at the Portland ER, Brandon arrived about an hour later. The pediatric surgeons came down and looked him over, and by this time he was feeding, all be it not as well as usual, still in pain. They scheduled him for surgery in the morning and booked us into the Children's Hospital, by this time it was 1am. We all sacked out and got a few hours of sleep before 6am rolled around and time to feed him up before he had to go food free. They took him to get an IV (fifth time lucky....this mamma cried from the third stick onwards) which they ended up putting in his foot, and we waited, he was taken for surgery at 11am (by the same doctor who we were scheduled to meet with on tuesday!). The rest is really a blur, he came out of surgery and it all went well, they closed up the two holes and his bowel looked unaffected by the trauma, which was the best news. He didn't come out of anesthetic so well, didn't want to eat and was in a lot of pain from all the air in his belly from the laprascopic procedure. At around 7pm he kicked out his IV, causing quite the stir on the ward as it started bleeding profusely, but they told us they'd give him a few hours to start eating before they tried to put a new one in (phew!). He ate an ounce or so at midnight, enough to give us a few more hours, and finally took a big feed at 3am, followed by a few smiles for mummy and daddy and sacking out. At 10am they were happy with his feeding (which was still low and worried me, but they were unconcerned as long as he was actually feeding!) we were released to go home!<br />
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Today he was much more himself, still on some pain medication but weaning down. Lots of smiles and even some kicking time under his play gym, and he's eating better, still not to norm, but much closer. The good news he won't remember any of this....though we will, for a very long time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first smiles, at 3am, just before having a nice long feed. We all slept better right after this, even if it was only for 2 hours.....:)</td></tr>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-55726088645841159042015-05-06T11:11:00.004-10:002015-05-06T11:11:40.070-10:008 weeksEight weeks goes by so fast, and so slow. I've been enjoying this time off, can't quite believe I only have another 4 weeks before returning to work. Dylan is smiling, cooing, wiggling and letting his wishes be known louder and louder. He's so much fun...:)<br />
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Our first family shot. So glad we asked Jen Stevens to help us chronicle this little guys arrival. She came to the hospital to take some photos when he was just 8hrs old, then we went to her studio when he was 11 days old. We're still waiting on most of the studio ones, but the hospital ones are wonderful, and make our hearts full remembering those first few hours.<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-37794670191593058352015-03-18T13:30:00.001-10:002015-03-18T13:30:17.950-10:00A new beginning........ <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This little guy came into our life on March 5th, the day after his due date, weighing in at 6lbs 4oz, our little peanut. The path for us to have little Dylan wasn't a straight or easy one, we ended up needing IVF to conceive, which is far from a straightforward process. We've chronicled our IVF journey <a href="http://familyjourneywk.blogspot.com/">over here</a> if you have any interest in reading about our journey. We found blogs so helpful to us during our treatment, we decided to start one ourselves in the hopes it might help someone else one day.<br />
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Needless to say our life has changed, and we are so thrilled to share our adventures with our son. His conception and pregnancy weren't straightforward, and neither was his birth (though it was much better than the birth we'd been told to prepare for - preterm and potential C-section). On his due date we went in for an ultrasound, to check on how he was doing (this was a regular process in our pregnancy), they found he had low amniotic fluid and whisked us off to labor and delivery to be induced. Not being dilated at all, they gave me cervadil at 6pm, hoping for me to dilate overnight, ready to start pitocin in the morning. After playing some card games we went to sleep, prepped for a big day starting early in the morning.<br />
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At 1am the little guy had other ideas and contractions started hard. We started walking around the halls, excited we were about to meet our little man, and trying to keep moving to work through the contractions. They quickly got harder and faster, some classic back labor but with the added touch of induction from the cervadil (rare, but happens). After 6hrs even the bathtub wasn't helping, and hearing we were only at 3cm, a pain pill followed to try and give me an hour or two break to sleep. Though I fell asleep, with every contraction (2-3 minutes at this point) I woke up with hard back labor, struggled through and immediately fell asleep after. Needless to say, an epidural followed! Though the epidural didn't totally take, it did make it so I could rest some, and after a total of 30hrs of labor, our little man came into the world. His entrance was quiet, and though that worried us, he was fine, just took some convincing to cry out. After pooping on me, and peeing on his dad, they took him over to clean him up and check him over. Perfectly healthy.<br />
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We stayed in the hospital a few extra days, as he was having blood sugar issues they wanted to see resolved. After working through a feeding plan (breast, pumping and formula) his numbers increased and we came home. Still to this day I look at him and a little stir in my brain can't quite believe he's here and he's ours. Here's to the new, improved, adventures. Welcome baby Dylan.<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-28420860209135456492015-02-10T12:58:00.004-10:002015-02-10T12:58:40.436-10:00Icicles....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Me thinks we might need that new roof sooner than we hoped........i.e. we shouldn't have icicles quite like this! We knew we'd need a new roof within 5 years when we bought the place, so it's been 3, nearly 4 years..........but considering we <b>JUST</b> this week, ordered the new windows for this summers upstairs renovate project, that's going to hurt........</div>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-41395246257908456582015-02-09T04:10:00.002-10:002015-02-09T04:10:41.487-10:00...and more snow....Turns out Juno was just the start, so far we've had 5 storms giving us more than 6 inches of snow per storm since Juno hit. Our driveway is now about half the size with all the plowed snow piles....we are really running out of room to put more snow.......and today another 5-8inches is predicted!<br />
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Still, it's beautiful, I love this time of year. The pathways through the snow are now well above both dogs heads, so we can look out the window and all we see are these two tails trotting along. Barkley has even found her spry youth, and has been chasing Brody down the tunnels, all we can see is his tail followed by this wildly wagging Barkley tail. It's pretty cute for a 14 year old! The only one who really doesn't like it is Zoe, she's usually such an outdoor cat, and instead is inside causing terror on everything instead because she's bored.<br />
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-33665988627213577302015-01-28T10:04:00.002-10:002015-01-28T10:04:55.980-10:00Survived the storm! ...and it really wasn't bad - no, I wouldn't have wanted to drive anywhere in it, it was definitely a bad blizzard, but we didn't even lose power. As a consequence it didn't even feel like a snow day, Brandon and I both worked from home hoping power would get kicked out and we could goof off and play board games in front of the fire. But no. Ah well, it made for some beautiful snow photos this morning!<br />
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RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-399255510123505492015-01-26T15:32:00.002-10:002015-01-26T15:32:49.859-10:00Winter Storm Juno (aka Nor'Beaster)A big snow storm on the way. We think they're overestimating, since it's really the first major storm we've had this year. But it does look like we'll get some high winds and at least a foot, so power outs are pretty likely. Today was just a beautiful day, warm (40F) and sunny, reminds me of why I love Maine in the winter, everything just looks crisp and clean.<br />
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Here are some Pre-Storm photos to compare to later!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chickens got prepped with a little outdoor run time. Even with corn it's hard to get them to venture into the snow, so it was brief. They have this enclosed area plus indoors with plenty of roost space when they don't want to go outside. </td></tr>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-68086441918970341462015-01-25T12:30:00.002-10:002015-01-25T12:30:32.367-10:00Guest Bathroom Complete! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking out into the hall. It's super nice to have all the trim painted now too, before it was several different shades of white, now, it's just white.</td></tr>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-3001988047937885212015-01-19T07:09:00.000-10:002015-01-19T07:09:16.600-10:00Happy Birthday to my Brandon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I couldn't have wished for anything more amazing to enter my life when you did. Barkley thinks so too.<br />
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My indoor Meyer lemon tree finally ripened a lemon (we can't remember when it appeared, but it must be over 6 months ago now!). So today I made German Lemon Cake (link <a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/German-Lemon-Cake/Detail.aspx?evt19=1">here</a>). I actually used a suggestion from one of the comments and instead of rum put in lemon juice and the rind. It was delicious, a very typical dense german cake, but the lemony interior and lemon glaze made it still nice and moist. Who said you can't grow lemons in Maine?</div>
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<br />RGWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859160779650601294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957837251791808900.post-12175153542683097832015-01-17T06:33:00.001-10:002015-01-17T06:33:21.447-10:00January<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So many things happening in January, sorry for the lack of updates! </div>
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Lets see - over the holidays both of our (less than 1 year old) dishwasher and (much older) fridge/freezer died. The dishwasher they refunded and replaced for us, the fridge, well, we finally upgraded to a larger split door model. It's been an expensive January. But for the first time in our kitchen you can now stand in front of the fridge and open it. Before the door of the fridge hit the island, so you'd always have to be to the left of the island to get into the fridge. It's glorious, we love it. And it has water and ice on the front. We feel very fancy. </div>
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Winter finally struck, after a warm, wet and weird December. So there has been much snuggling in front of the fire, and enjoying the glorious snow we get here in Maine. </div>
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And we moved on to Winter Project #2 - finish off the main floor bathroom. When we first moved in we painted (we just couldn't hack the color) but left everything else the same. Over the summer Brandon's parents were emptying one of their sheds, and found an old bathroom cabinet - perfect condition and would fit that bathroom well (larger than the old undersized one). So we bought a new top for it, replaced the toilet, used the same laminate tiles as upstairs, painted all the trim and bought a new light fixture (since we stole the one from in there for the master bath). It's not quite finished yet, but for less than $1000 that bathroom now feels complete! </div>
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First photo is a reminder of what it looked like when we moved in! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brandon's parents deliver the bathroom cabinet! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I missed taking a photo of the tiling - it's the same as upstairs, groutable vinyl tiles, came out pretty well! </td></tr>
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