I stumbled upon the most wonderful little discovery the other day. Well, I thought it was wonderful, but I’m not sure anyone else would be as easily impressed. Continue reading
Category: another day in the life
Fiesta in February
Watermelon margaritas are a warm weather staple here. Our signature party, Cinco de Mayo, is built around our serving the cocktail by the punchbowl to our closest three hundred or so friends and neighbors. Continue reading
Hand pies, again.
For Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d take another pass at hand pies. I had cherry pie filling left over from last summer’s attempt that I’d thrown in the freezer, so all I had to do was whip up a new pie crust. Continue reading
Really very random.
I’m getting over a nasty little bug going around that a friend of mine described as making you feel as if you got punched in the gut. Personally, I think it felt more like I did way too many crunches at the gym and therefore I am hopeful that when I am finally at 100%, I am going to wake up to discover fabulous six-pack abs as a result.
A girl can dream, can’t she? Continue reading
Out and about.
Last week was a busy one here – there was a four day holiday weekend, which led to us lapsing at least just a little bit back into that lovely lazy Christmas holiday swing. It was also birthday week here – Edie on Monday, Pat on Wednesday – so it really was like Christmas all over again with lots of celebrations, fantastic meals and desserts galore. This time around though, we went out for at least some of our celebrations.
About that cabinet.
This blog post is dedicated to Abigail, who suggested it.
In my small kitchen with limited storage, where every single item save my cherry pitter have multiple uses, I have an entire half cabinet devoted to Koozie storage. Yes, Koozies, those wonderful little insulators that keep your canned or bottled beverage cold. I did not set out nor intend to have so much of my precious kitchen space devoted to these items, but like other things in life, sometimes that’s just how it goes. Continue reading
It starts with a walk….
Late last summer, I stumbled across this lamp on a walk around the block.
Abandoned by the curb, it had a broken lampshade perched on top. Recognizing mid-century modern gold, I quickly grabbed it, ditching the broken shade and brought it home. Pat rewired it, I found a burlap shade at the Habitat store, that while not ideal, was $2 and so therefore will work for the time being. Continue reading
And so it goes.
The first week of January always feels like such a let down after the crazy rush towards and then relative quiet of the holidays that make up the end of December. We had a mostly lazy last couple of weeks that involved watching many hours of Gilmore Girls – how had I never watched that until recently? – interspersed with catching up on movies while eating hands down the best chocolate cake I make all year. Edie challenged me to an entire day of doing nothing, with an exemption for knitting, which made it doable. Because as anyone who knows me knows, it is pretty near impossible for me to sit still. And to spend an entire day doing nothing? Whoa. Thank goodness for netflix. Continue reading
Halls decked.
The last few days have been a whirlwind of holiday activity. In the last 72 hours, we’ve gone from no Christmas decorations to fully decked halls. I’m sitting here enjoying some egg nog in my coffee before I start the Christmas baking. I’m still not entirely sure what our menu for the next two days entails, but I do know there will be cinnamon buns and sausage for tomorrow’s breakfast and oyster dressing for tomorrow’s dinner. Also, brussels sprouts because I appear to have the only child to walk the face of the earth that adores and requests them. Of course, nothing is wrapped, but the day is young. And there’s plenty of nog.
A very merry Christmas to all.
A walk in a country field.
I went for a walk with Betty out in the country the other morning. She has a new puppy, Noodle that she thought I could practice taking photos of with my new camera.
Chicken Wire & Paper Flowers 