Hello Hello!

Hello all!

I'm been meaning to post on here ever since Beth got it rolling, but alas, time has gotten the best of me!  So good to read your notes John, Beth and Ally!  It's nice to hear what y'all been up to.  Hopefully more people will write! :)  

All is well here in Bakersville/Penland!  I'm actually sitting in the Penland coffee shop as I type.  It is the second summer session right now.  The place is crawling with students again!  It's nice to see the place bustling as it got rather quiet here after spring session ended.  I believe there are a couple of Letterpress classes in July/August... I hope to poke my head in to check out the crazy work that I'm sure will be created.  It's fun being here.  Wish I could take another class, but for now I'm knee deep in the web world!  Work is busy and good and I'm grateful to have it!

Weather around here's getting nice; we too had a ton of rain (raining now!).  More so than there's been here in many years.  It's good, but I'm certainly thankful to see the sun again when she manages to pop her head out!  Taking a little vacation at the end of this month to the Outerbanks.  I'm excited to get away from work and I haven't seen the ocean in a couple of years, so that's doubly exciting.  Other than that, we've been trying to get our garden in order and we also acquired 7 more baby chickens a few weeks ago.  It's been fun watching them grow and integrate with the rest of the ladies in the coop.  :)  

Well, it is so good to keep in touch with you all.  I'm looking forward to keeping this up!  Fingers crossed that we will.

-Marisa