Saturday, August 30, 2008
One day a couple of weeks ago, during our heat wave, I went outside and ate lunch under a tree. As I was sitting there, an entire raccoon family went loping across another patch of lawn by my building. Didn’t have my camera, of course. It was pretty neat to see them all, though I’m [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My husband rules. The “before” photo can be seen in this post, and you can sort of see a bit of the fence there too. He tore out all those weeds and that side portion of the fence. That really opened up our space! There’s still a corner to go… behind where I was standing [...]
I got some jalapeños last Friday from the Organic Grower’s Club at OSU, so tonight I made these bacon wrapped jalapeño thingies. And this is the only photo I got, because… well… they didn’t last long is all I’m saying. Nom, nom. I also made some cornbread and threw a chopped jalapeño in. Tasty.
It’s starting to feel more like home, though it’s still way too easy to stub a toe in the dark! Last weekend we had quite a spectacular thunderstorm and I stayed awake as long as I could on Saturday to watch the sky light up. This week I rolled out plopped down the welcome mat: [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Hmmm, not too bad: We picked some blueberries on Sunday and while we’re perfectly content to just eat them plain (mmmmm!), I wanted to try out a yogurt sauce. No recipe, really, just took some guesses and threw it together thusly: Sweet Yogurt Sauce for Berries 1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups [...]
When did Nicolas Cage start getting the work that rightfully should have gone to Bruce Willis?
Saturday, August 16, 2008
My very first teddy bear. I think my mom got this by saving points from paper towel purchases or something like that. She did the yarn stitch jobs. I can’t remember if those are his original eyes. I don’t think I ever named him. He was the best teddy bear for sleeping with, because he [...]
I think there might be levels of hell cooler than this house was last night. Yeah, I said it gets “a tad warm” in the afternoons. Ha ha ha! I think I finally dragged myself to bed at 3am with an icepack. We lost power in the house sometime yesterday while we were at work… [...]
Isn’t that a great name? Dagger Monroe. That would be the name of the clever, noirish, gumshoe detective in my novel. If I were writing a novel about a clever, noirish, gumshoe detective. Which I’m not. But, if I were! This combination of words came up on a recent CATCHPA form I had to fill out [...]
