Posted in life on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pudding would like you to know that she has worked very hard on her quilt the past few days. She has finally conquered the cutting-out phase…
And had a rest, to admire her lovely stacks of beautiful squares.
If you have ever done patchwork, you understand the importance of this phase of the process. Your squares [...]
Posted in life on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has gotten really cold, outside. Full blown winter cold. It has also suddenly, it seems, begun to get dark oh-so-early (oh, wait, was that the time change? I’m from Indiana, all of that still confuses me). This is crockpot weather.
One of my favorite crockpot recipies was picked up from a message board several years [...]
Posted in life on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With so much leisure time at her disposal (Sparks and I both have jobs, so she’s the Angel in the Home), Pudding has been finding lots of time to try her paw at various arts and crafts. This weekend when we got back from our road trip, we found her planning a quilt.
It looks like [...]
Posted in life on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sparks and I are just back from a road trip–it was a horrific amount of driving for one weekend, but took us through and to two of my old stomping grounds. Life makes it less and less likely that I’ll be these places again any time soon, so it was good to go back, and [...]
Posted in life on November 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
-or-
It’s my blog and I’ll gush if I want to
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
If the girls from Sex and the City were becoming my constant companions, this year, then The Lovesong of J. [...]
Posted in life on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You might not realize it, but those of you reading the blog have known Sparks for a long time now. The pickles? His. He’s the one who owns a canner and… well… knows how to can stuff. The dried fruit? His. He’s the one who owns the dehydrator. The charming country getaway? His parents’ house. [...]
Posted in life on November 5, 2008 | 13 Comments »
… there was a girl who lived happily ever after.
A lot happened in the world last night, and there is a lot to be happy about this morning. Last night, curled up on my back deck looking at the stars, Sparks proposed and I said “yes”.
Hello, world. It’s a beautiful new day.
Posted in life on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wear amber-tinted sunglasses when outdoors year round. I simply hate to squint, and sunlight makes me squint in all but the blackest weather. That they tweak the colors of nature so beautifully is a secondary benefit… winter looks a little less bleak, green grass and trees are a more vibrant green, and the Autumn [...]
Posted in life on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is Sunday morning and the food preservation effort continues unabated.
The Halloween pumpkins’ seeds have been dried and roasted
And put into a canning jar for safekeeping
The peel-on batch of dried pears has been taken out of the dehydrator
And another batch, this one peeled, put through
So we have our lovely stash of dried things to snack [...]
|
