How’s it going? I hope the website was not missing too long last week; it can’t have been more than a week, but if you do check this place out, it must have been worrisome.
On Saturday, a friend and I traveled to an ancient Roman site — strangely, it’s not an actual site from Roman Britannia, but some Carthaginian ruins the English picked up and shipped here. To gather lichen and centuries’ worth of rain. If ever there was a reason to repatriate the foreign artifacts in England… It was still rather pretty. We also saw a lake that was frozen, and could walk out a little bit before it became too dangerous. Has the snowstorm hit Eugene? It didn’t hit Vashon, but it’s gotten most of the country; if so, I hope you enjoyed a snow day without any power outages. Grandma told me that there was a lot of ice outside her house and that trees fell over and caused outages — I hope that didn’t happen in your corner of Eugene. She also said crocuses and daffodils were coming up. I really love the Eugene daffodils, the patch in our backyard by the chicken coop. I remember Mom sending me out back to cut some for a vase. Have they come up yet?
I’ve mostly been just trudging along. I hope you’re doing better than me. I fear being repetitive and boring, but there really is not much else to say. I hope you are well — I miss you dearly — I miss our home — ripples echoing around a pond.
With love,
Alice