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…
So my husband ordered dirt. A lot of dirt. I’m told it’s “four cubic yards” of dirt. Which is much more than you think it is. Here’s a video I found that proves that: A dump truck just like this dumped this amount of dirt on my driveway (but this is not my driveway). He…
So have these plates. They have turkeys on them. Not happy little cartoon turkeys. Realistic looking ones. Service for twelve, to be exact, plus an enormous platter. You may ask yourself, “What is Ann doing with these dishes? They don’t quite seem like her.” And you’d be right. “The pattern is called King of the…
The first glimpse feels like flying, Mask breaking water, Fins at the ready, Unprepared. I am afraid of heights. (Absolutely no fins on the boat) Two rusty smokestacks rise upward. Set at absurd angles, They belie her. (Hold your mask and jump) Beneath, shrouded, ancient, Four hundred feet of sagging metal Reaching downward into blackness….
What other people think of you is none of your business. I would really love to attribute this quote properly. Unfortunately, Google offers up a variety of sources, from Paul Coelho to Deepak Chopra to Ru Paul. Regardless of who said it first (probably not Ru Paul), I think we can all agree that the…