animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

one year later

My parents are fully vaccinated, so Jake and I finally got to spend an evening with them on Saturday. We’ve not done so since last summer. We went there for a delicious turkey dinner/early Easter celebration. Things almost felt back to normal. Jake and I were able to score a …

back to it

I have spent the past five days doing nothing around the house. It all started with the Democratic debates on Tuesday. I don’t know why, but they had them on an hour earlier than last time (they started at 8pm), so by the time we had supper there wasn’t much …

progress report

The investment property spruce-ups are going well. We finished painting the living room, dining room and stairwell on Saturday afternoon. This leaves the kitchen, which is going to be a chore because we’re also painting the cabinets. There are some other things to do, of course, but they are minor …

weekly blogger

Here is my obligatory weekly blog post. There’s nothing blog-worthy going around here, hence the lack of posts. Which isn’t to say that there’s nothing going on, but do you really want to hear about how I spent an hour sanding wine bottle glasses the other night? I didn’t think …

juliet

We finally got to meet our niece Juliet yesterday. She’s nearly three months old now and is a sweetie. Brian’s sister and the kids came in for the weekend so my in-laws had a family get-together yesterday afternoon/evening. We got to see some of Brian’s relatives that we haven’t seen …