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I am so glad you aren't allergic to latex. That is such a difficult thing to avoid.

Cloves? I have never heard of a clove allergy before and I never heard of it being used in dental work.

What is it supposed to do? Does it help stop bleeding or something like that?

I loved Bellingham. I went there to live with a friend that I met when she was in Houston on a mission trip.

We became really good friends and I moved up there with her for a year. I was 20 years old at the time. So that was 24 years ago!

I loved it so much! There's not much to look at in this part of Texas. I had never even seen mountains before I went there.

So, to finally see mountains and snow, to have boy scouts teach me to make an igloo, see apple trees, Puget Sound, Mt Ranier (goodnesss the list is sooo long!) Anyway to see all of that just thrilled me.

Someday, I will go back to vacation there.

The cloves (I checked into this later) help (in non-allergic people) to soothe the dental nerve after they do all that crashing and banging around to get ready to seat a crown, and I think it helps with swelling.

Igloo building! My fourth grade teacher taught us how to do that in the aftermath of a handy snow storm. He taught us how to make snow blocks, and the basics of igloo building, in the warm classroom, not telling us what we were going to be expected to do with this interesting knowledge till he took us outside for an unscheduled "recess." Then he let us loose. Told us, "Build an igloo. Break up into teams and each team build one."

We FREAKED! We'd never had a teacher do anything like this. We whined, "But HOW?" He told us to remember what he'd told us. And he stood back while every one of us figured out that we had to choose a team leader, get organized, think as a group, remember in earnest what we'd heard in a leisurely spirit, work out a design, get the guys to do the heavy lifting (snow blocks do get heavy, no?), and put it all together.

Mr. Tracy was an incredible teacher.

We all succeeded, each with a somewhat different design. There was no formal grade for the recess project, just the joy of knowing we DID IT. And I cannot think of a school project of which I was more proud.

I'm so glad you got to live here and sample the beauties of one of those places that I think can truly be called "God's country." I'm from Michigan, and may I say, I am very glad to say, I am FROM Michigan. ;-)

I had never even seen mountains before I went there.

They do give a person a much bigger view of all God did when He created this old earth, and the cataclysmic forces that shook our planet to make the deep inner parts of the earth be thrown up to such massive heights. I cannot go outside without being struck by it -- the Cascade foothills are just a few miles from my front door. It always puts me in mind of how big God must be that this one element of His creation -- mountains -- makes me so small, and yet infinitely more precious to Him than all the massive natural wonders.

Were you here when St. Helens blew, or a few years after?