Today I made bread from scratch.
Yesterday, mushrooms popped up in our front yard. They are still there today.
Tonight, Gavin roasted coffee beans.
Here are roasted and unroasted beans together on a plate:
Each pile has the same number of beans. The beans get bigger when you roast them.
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 12th, 2008
On the marble-topped dresser we use as a side table in the dining room.
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 23rd, 2008
(Thanks to Anne Bonney for the caption idea.)
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 23rd, 2008
It was $5 at a garage sale across the street.
It’s going to live in the kitchen next to the kitchen rack. This is where the person reading out loud to the chef sits.
Here’s a link to the poem posted right above it.
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 18th, 2008
Sometimes I love to be just sick enough that I can lay in bed all day drifting in and out of naps, finishing a couple of books and starting a new one while Gavin brings me Dayquil and water and tea and fruit on a plate and then takes the boys out to do something [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 17th, 2008
Yesterday, a cat who I was getting to know died. I found him in the morning, stiff, with his eyes open, laying next to our trashcans out in the street with a little bit of blood on the ground near his head. He used to watch me in the back yard from a distance. He [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 15th, 2008
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 15th, 2008
The venus fly traps are still alive. The trick is to give them only distilled water.
I have a sprig of rosemary on the window sill.
It’s growing roots.
Next to it is a fighter jet I found in the back yard.
And here’s the tea kettle on the stove.
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 27th, 2007
Check out those mountains in the background.
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 21st, 2007