animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

weather

The weather has been crazy warm this month. It would have been a good year to try the fall planting bit. The good news is that I was behind on a lot of things outside and now I’m almost caught up. If the weather can just hold out for one …

the host

This was one of those Korean monster movies. It was not really up my alley. We did get off to a bad start, though–we started the movie in the DVD’s default format, which was badly overdubbed American voices. After 30 minutes of this ridiculousness, I found out that we could …

another beautiful day

My parents invited us out for dinner at this great restaurant in Altoona, The Phoenecian Mediterranean Restaurant. There, we had a Mediterranean feast, which consisted of multiple courses. The meal started out with some appetizers (the hummus was outstanding), followed by a salad, and then the main course (the grilled …