3 weeks to go?

Well, three weeks to go until the initial measured due date of March 3. Last week, the doctor (Dr. Shaunie Keyes) said that she didn't think that Trina would make it all the way to the due date. Sounds good to Trina. To quote a friend this weekend who said that at the end of her pregnancy she would have "pulled it out her nose if she could".

Trina's doctor visits are now weekly. Today her blood pressure was a bit high, so the doctor assigned her bed rest until Friday, when she'd have another doctor visit to check the pressure again. She's still allowed to work from home, but reducing it to just what is entirely necessary. Oscar and Daisy will be happy to have her home all day.

In the mean time, we just wait... Until about a week ago the time has gone pretty quickly. Now we are anxious to meet the little person and begin that journey.

Last weekend we went up to the Skagit Valley in search of fields full of snow geese, swans, and a nice place to go walk the dogs. We quickly found some swans (the first Trina had seen) and continued on to a place that the WDFW indicated was a good place to go. Well, I chose the wrong entry point for the Fir Island Wildlife Management Area that turned out to be the 'preserve' and doesn't allow dogs. We were quickly scolded by some birders w/ huge spotting scopes. The spot was lame anyway since you could only walk out about 100 yards on a dike and that was the entire permitted access. We tried another spot down the road and same gig - no dogs.

A couple miles down the road we found an access point that didn't exclude dogs and went for a short walk, hung out a bit.


Then as we were leaving we saw three guys standing at the "trailhead" (hard to call it that when the trail is 200 yards long) with enormous lenses (likely 500 or 600 mm). One of the guys standing there was Art Wolffe, the famous nature photographer who resides in Seattle. I thought about introducing myself, but decided to just hover a bit and see if there was any beta to gather, then went on our merry way. Photography was pretty nill w/ the exception of some large piles of driftwood.



We tried to find anther access point or a cool place to walk the dogs, but ended up in the little town of La Conner. We were pleasantly surprised that it is actually a cute little town w/ its own brew pub and a few decent looking restaurants. We'll be back. We never found any of the fields full of snow geese that are supposed to inhabit Fir Island (part of the Skagit River Delta), but had a good time nonetheless. So after that little journey we went home and watched Travels to the Edge on PBS - Art Wolffe's weekly half-hour tv show that follows him around the world taking photos of nature and native cultures. It's on at 10:30 every sunday, so we record it since we are rarely home then.