Rebecca Goulding

Today was a good day!

Today was a good day. I am happy. The weather has been so delightful lately: sunny and warm. Here, warm is in the low 20s, but it is very pleasant indeed. I like the way the sun streams in through our windows and doors. It makes this little cabin bearable. Except wasps come inside on […]

Time for a Bed

Matthew is in the bottom bunk now. He is very cute because he tends to sleep on his belly, with his bottom in the air, curled up in just one corner of the full-sized bed. This evening Monte and I walked up the hill to the proposed house site. When we came back inside, we […]

Mesmerised

I can’t get over how fast Georgia is growing up! I took a few double takes today. Her face is changing. She is losing her puppy fat. Her eyes are bluer. Her skin is darker. Her hair is the colour of honey. She has freckles dotted over her nose. her lips pout in a pretty […]

Firewood

Well I am feeling a bit sore from chopping firewood. I am determined not to be stranded in the cold if Monte has to go out, and why should I not chop wood? Today we drove the truck up to the top of our property and whilst the children and dogs played (d’Art disappearing into […]

Testing…

After a few glitches with iBlog, we are now using a program called ECTO to blog offline. At present, all my posts are back at gouldings.blogspot.com, should you like to peruse those… For now, I am trying to work out how to pull my posts from there to here, and in the meantime I will […]

Camping…

Over the weekend we took the new truck camping. Monte wanted to pick up his peteroid motor thing that will be our new backup generator. We drove up north and camped in Sprent. The forest was very pretty, although it was terribly windy (and cold, and wet) and the trees croaked and groaned all night. […]

Swimming and Stuff

Today was quite warm – hot even! With temperatures reaching 30 degrees, we all went to the local pool and had a lovely swim! We’re thinking about getting a season pass, so we can go whenever we want to. Georgia had a fabulous time and is a natural in the water. She “swam” at least […]

Why Fangorn???

Why Fangorn? Without going into too much detail, our property consists of several – 6-7 – acres of forest. The forest is noisy and it seems to be alive! We hike in there and are reminded of the ents in Lord of the Rings. We keep expecting Treebeard to appear and lead the way! So, […]