Posted in Food and drink, Garden, Miscellaneous on Dec 8th, 2008
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.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 12th, 2008
On the marble-topped dresser we use as a side table in the dining room.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Feb 23rd, 2008
(Thanks to Anne Bonney for the caption idea.)
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 27th, 2007
Check out those mountains in the background.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 21st, 2007