animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

beach road

This was written by James Patterson and Peter De Jonge. I’m not sure why Patterson has been writing a bunch of books with co-authors, but I think this is the first one of those that I’ve read. The book was ok–I read it in a timely enough fashion. I didn’t …

eraserhead

We watched this one last night. It was David Lynch’s directorial debut. The movie was quite odd and there’s probably no one I can recommend it to, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. On the other hand, it isn’t going to go down in history as one of …

christmas preps

Jake stayed at my parent’s last night. Since this was probably our last Jake-free opportunity before Christmas, we spent the evening wrapping gifts. Today, we got all of the decorations out of the attic and put up the tree and decorated the house after Jake got home. The house looks …

a test

Winter has arrived. The weather sure was crappy on the drive home from work today. It took me nearly 30 minutes to get home (normally it takes 15-20 minutes, depending on the traffic). It was a good test for the Highlander, though. The roads weren’t totally horrible, but they weren’t …