On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
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| Aug 26th, 2020 |
This August, we went to Lavender Valley and had a fun date which involved lavender plucking. The farm is a bit farther away from where we live, but we still think it's worth to visit at least once.
Mt. Hood is super visible from this farm; this location is probably a nice place to do painting and photo sessions 😏 Before our visit, we checked their website and saw that it said there's an admission fee, so we went with a mindset that there's a fee for entering the farm. Well, after arrived at the farm, we went to the "purple building" / souvenir shop to ask where to pay for said entrance fee and were told there's no such fee. So...okay!
There weren't many visitors during the time we visited, which was good. We wanted to go on a weekday so there'd be least amount of traffic. so we just went on Wednesday, the first day of W's 5-day break from work. We saw maybe 10 visitors total, along with a couple of doggies.
The farm also offered a plucking experience where customers could pluck lavenders on their own, tools provided (a scythe and a twist tie), for $12. Customers could pluck as many lavenders as they liked, in a designated area of the farm, as long as the flowers could be tied up with the twist tie that they provided.
One form of photo ID was required as a deposit for using their scythe, and upon return of the tool the staff offered to wrap up our flowers, 'course we said "yes, please!"
We didn't bring Duke with us because we weren't sure if dogs were allowed, though our question got answered at the farm, because we saw this sign! The sign next to the little US flag shows the farm is pet friendly. Also, we did see a couple of doggies at the farm and the staff didn't seem to mind. If we go again, we'll bring Duke with us 🐶
We didn't buy anything from the souvenir shop. Initially, we were interested in their essential oil but the price tag was too heavy for us...over $30 for a bottle of 0.5oz! So our souvenir was just the lavender bunch that we plucked. These lasted for about 2 weeks before going dry. The entire first floor of our house was infused with lavender scent for a long while! After I took the above picture, I actually divided the bunch into 3 bunches so I could have some lavender on the first floor and some on the second floor. I ended up with 1 big bunch in the living room, and 1 smaller bunch for the kitchen, and 1 small bunch for upstairs.
By the way, last spring we went to a Paint Night event and we each painted a scene that we saw at Lavender Valley. The painted picture above is W's painting. The fact that we painted it was one of the reasons why we went to the farm! Another reason was we wanted to get away from the city, but didn't want to go to another state. Also, thanks to our friends Neha & Vikas for letting us know about the farm. "Look! It's what we painted before" was a text we got from them that led us to this visit.
5965 Boneboro Rd
Hood River Parkdale, OR 97041
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