animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

leave the world behind

This was a movie about a massive cyberattack against the United States. Unfortunately, this occurred right before the young daughter character watched the last episode of Friends, which she wasn’t too happy about. Who would be? The ending was pretty good but left us hanging as to what happened. The …

brit floyd

I saw Brit Floyd for the 3rd time last night. As always, it was a great show! And you can’t beat going to a concert in town–leave the house 30 minutes before it starts and get home 15 minutes after it’s over. The show lasted 3 hours (but there was …

flip

I completed my first furniture flip last night. I took my old hope chest and made some updates. I started by removing the top and refinishing it. It was pretty beaten up and still has a distressed look to it (despite sanding the original finish off), which is not what …

early easter

My brother had to work today, so we celebrated Easter yesterday evening. I hosted this year and we had the usual Eastery-type foods. I took Friday off to clean and prep some food. That was probably unnecessary, but I didn’t have to rush around on Saturday, so it was worth …

j is for judgment

This was a pretty good story. And, it didn’t have a ton of characters to keep track of, like Grafton’s stories often do. I’m ahead of schedule with my book reading this year. I try to read at least one (fiction) book a month–I read a bunch of non-fiction, too, …