Can't decide which to do

1. So I couldn't understand how everyone was exchanging information and pictures but not blogging so this week Alicia set me up on Facebook and now I get it. It is like being inside the brain of everyone you know - all at once. It was a little overwhelming at first, but now even Brian checks it every night to see what went on in our circle of friends. So I don't understand how people, like Joanna, keep both Facebook and the blog up to date. It is beyond my abilities at this time. Of course, there is still lots about Facebook that I don't get.

If you are on Facebook and don't have us as a friend, but want to - just do a search for my name and there I'll be.

2. Happy Birthday Blake.

3. Just an update on the volcano ash. It is EVERYWHERE. It is very fine and is filling my house. The dogs play outside all day with Justin's family and then come in all wet and full of ash. Of course when they dry off, the ash just falls wherever. You can see it rising out of the carpets and on every surface in the house. It's all gritty and impossible to clean up. (well, in the dog's defence the cat does the same thing but he is smaller and just goes out once and comes back in the morning so the main place he deposits wet ash is on Brian's pillow - he comes in when Brian leaves for work, so the pillow is all dried out by the time Brian needs it at night).

A friend in Homer started gardening this week and said she had to wear a mask the whole time because as she dug the ash got all stirred up and airborne and then it was really warm and she got all sweaty and the ash started clinging to her and she was completely miserable.

So i'll probably be letting the flower bed go au-natural this summer. We'll get the ash tilled into the garden in a few weeks and then won't have to deal with it, I hope. Except the webcorders at the volcano are making that little rat-a-tat thing that they do just before the thing blows up again. We are thinking about getting the greenhouse going, but the temps in there are still fluctuating too much for seedlings so we have to wait just a bit.

4. Justin and Alicia scraped up the money they needed for the downpayments and will open their boat launch business on the first of May. Please keep them in your prayers. It's going to be a long summer.