For the last year, I’ve eaten oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. I love it with fruit and almonds and cinnamon and a splash of milk. Yum! But recently, I switched up my eating schedule and bam! No more breakfast, which kind of meant no more oatmeal (or at least not every day since…
When I decided to make my life about making things instead of thinking things, it was inevitable that I would eventually arrive at baking. Honestly, I’m pretty obsessed with food. I don’t cook often (one of the perks of being married to a retired chef), but John doesn’t really bake and I thought, hell, I…
My kitty boy is basically the handsomest, and he knows it. Such a cutie Kemura Saisho Ototto (so named by my anime-obsessed teen) doesn’t come for pets very often. But when he does, look out, because he’s a purr box. Like our two dogs and our other cat, Capitano, Saisho came to us via Antietam…
Gentle reader, meet our long-awaited gardenia blossom. ❤️ She took her sweet time, but here she is.
This morning, John and I went on an adventure to pick up a like-new basketball hoop for the driveway. (Aside: Sam is in love with it, and so are the neighbor kids!) We were a little early, so we pulled into what we thought was a roadside produce stand called Gaver Farm. This place is…
I’m determined to get serious about knitting. It’s been a on-again/off-again thing for me. My last project was a huge Doctor Who scarf I made for my friend, Zach, but that took like 4 years. There’s definitely not enough dopamine in a 4 year scarf project to keep me going. So I’m making this new…
The garden is going gangbusters! Here are my favorite shots: Beans getting bigger! Cherry tomatoes First big tom! You guys. There are plants and they’re growing! I’m so excited.
My husband just spent 4 hours detangling this $4 skein of rainbow yarn I carelessly unraveled and I’ve never been more in love.
I am so excited about growing stuff. Like stupid excited. About 10 days ago, I planted beans. What I mean is I actually put beans in the ground and covered them with dirt. Now they look like this: Multi-colored beans grown from seeds Take that, Jack! (That was a Jack and the Beanstalk reference, in…
So close, yet so almost dead. We have a very cool, very large barn on our property. And there’s an asphalt driveway that connects it to the road. But there was one small problem. We couldn’t open the doors. See, the asphalt driveway leads to the center sliding doors, which is fine, but on either…