animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

garden pond: step 1

On Friday, we stared the garden pond project. The first step was to lay out the perimeter. We went with a kidney shape and the pond is approximately 8×10. Originally we were thinking 6×8, but that proved to be too small. Brian made a lot of progress digging the area …

30 days of night

This movie was a real snoozer. The premise sounded promising enough–a group of vampires descends upon an Alaskan village that is just about to enter a period of 30 days without sunlight. You would think someone could make a good movie out of this. However, the characters in the film …

more wine!

I made another batch of wine the other night. This time, it was Italian Brunello. I don’t know what that is exactly, but I’m sure it will be good. And, I also ordered the Chocolate Raspberry Port kit that I mentioned previously. Whenever that one comes in, I’ll make the …