Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2009 at 1:34 am | In Crafty, Family, Sewing, holiday | 3 Comments
This was the most fun Halloween we’ve had in years! At 4 this was the year that Clark not only embraced his costume, but also was thrilled by the trick or treating (last year we did about 5 houses and that was it, though he did love his costume) At 2, having an older sibling, Tabby was also excited by it. She also has a monstrous sweet tooth and was nutty about the candy. And of course, since it’s a Saturday and Paul was actually off of work, the whole day was a fun holiday.
We all painted masks:
Ate loads of cookies that we baked and decorated yesterday:
At nursery school Clark has been gearing up for Halloween big time. Crafts and songs and stories, all culminating in the Halloween parade and party on Thursday.
Bat made with hands:
Mummy:
We don’t decorate too much around the house, except for a string of spider lights.
And of course we’ve had some pumpkins and gourds about for a while now:
And now, the main event: trick or treating.
In our little village Halloween is a huge event. We’ve only lived here 6 years, but my friend who’s grown up here assures me it’s always been a big deal and in recent years has really exploded. It’s somewhat inexplicable, but it’s absolutely delightful and we’re happy to be a part of it. In the village center of 3 streets hundreds of people wander the streets trick or treating. Grown-up dress up just as much as kids (I’m thinking that next year we might; my favorite grown up costumes this year were Paul Stanley and Luke Skywalker with Yoda attached to his back ) and many of the houses have lavish decorations. One of my favorites is this tree with a headless horseman. What’s so awesome about it is that this house was sold 2 years ago and the new owners continued to create this decoration:
This picture is a bit blurry, but I include it so you can see that the tree itself looks like a horse:
Spoooooky:
Here we are ready to walk down to town (note: it was a bit rainy now and then, a very damp walking around.) Clark requested a pink and purple Tyrannosaurus Rex costume and Tabby was a cow (Clark’s costume from 2 years ago, but I made a new hat with more authentic ears) I sewed the main part based on last year’s giraffe costume and Paul masterfully made the headpiece. He really loved wearing it and roaring.
On the way we stopped in at Walter’s (the feed and seed) and he had a wonderful “treat” for us: his pig, Cheyenne, had her babies! They are 3 weeks old and were possibly some of the cutest baby animals I’ve ever seen. They were like puppies. None of my pictures came out very well, so a word picture instead: they are all black, have floppy triangular ears, little round behinds, and little tails with just a slight curl at the end. Their mother is humongous. Seriously large.
On to the houses and the candies. Clark was not at all hesitant about marching right up to the doors all by himself and nicely saying “trick or treat”, “thank you”, “Happy Halloween!”. Tabby couldn’t bring herself to say anything, but was quite happy to help herself to the candy.
Lots of fun, lots of nice town spirit, lots of really good candy.
Happy Halloween!
It’s Her Party and She’ll Cry if She Wants To*
October 19, 2009 at 1:10 am | In Cookery, Crafty, Entertaining, Family, Recipes | 1 Comment
Yesterday we had a birthday party for Tabitha’s 2nd birthday (which is actually still 2 days away.) Last year we had a small brunch, but this year decided to have a few more people, even though we knew that with the iffy weather it was likely everyone would be indoors. They were, but that was fine. In fact, I’d have to say the whole party was a nice big fun raucous success. And cozy, too, because we had a nice fire going. Raucous because there were ten 3-4 year olds running around, not to mention four 1 1/2-2 year olds.
Here was the menu:
Hors d’ouvres: Hummus, Pita and pretzels, Carrot Dip, and pigs in blankets. What is carrot dip, you ask? Only the most delicious dip ever. An old friend of mine used to make this and I swear we could just gobble up a bowl and a bag of pretzels while eating a movie. The recipe is simply 2 carrots in the food processor, then add an 8 oz bar of cream cheese, whiz it around until nice fluffy, add in a dash of garlic powder, a good tablespoon of lemon juice, and 1/2 tsp (or more) of minced dried onion. You can add milk to think it out, but I had some extremely juicy carrots so didn’t add any. It’s a beautiful pale pinky orange color and it is very yummy.
Main food: a ham. Everyone loves a ham. And I had little rolls so you could make little sandwiches. Then I also had macaroni and cheese, sweet spinach salad, oriental salad, deviled eggs, and a green salad. No one touched the plain boring green salad, but they gobbled up the other two. The spinach salad was great-a recipe from Taste of Home and it had an orange poppy seed dressing. The oriental salad was that salad with the broken up ramen noodles in it, shredded cabbage and carrots, and the sweet tangy dressing. (I used a recipe from Cooking Light, but this is a pretty common recipe you could probably find anywhere.) I thought it all went nicely together.
The cake: First, in addition to the cake I made brownies and lemon bars. I tried a new lemon bar recipe-this one had cottage cheese in the filling. They were fantastic. So, on to the cake. This was a decorating thing I saw in a magazine and saved for quite a while. Unfortunately the pictures are not great (we have many wonderful photos of our family, but never great pics from our parties. I guess we are too busy hostessing and I finished the cake so late in the day I didn’t properly photograph it.) Basically it is frosted white and then there is pretzel fencing and little frosted animal crackers grazing on the top (on green coconut grass.) (Also, apparently the lens was slightly smudged. Really this was a cute cake, much cuter than the picture makes it out to be!!!)
Hilariously, it had not occurred to me that the animal crackers would be a huge draw. As soon as the cake came out five little boys started shouting “I WANT ONE OF THOSE!” and reaching out to the flaming cake. Good thing we had extras. The birthday girl enjoyed her cake very much, especially getting to taste frosting and the custard filling at many stages along the way before we actually cut into it.
As for party favors, I made caramel apples and tied them up with red ribbon. They came out beautifully but I will admit that when I went to eat one today it was a huge mess and the caramel was too gooey and I suspect that no one enjoyed theirs at home either. (But hopefully everyone will be too polite to say so. 
My favorite part thing was the “Happy Birthday” display pictured at the top. This was in this month’s Parents magazine as a Thanksgiving decoration (spelling out “Give Thanks”.) I gathered sticks, painted them, and then drew and cut out the circles and letters and hot glued them to the sticks. The vases are filled with split peas. I am so taken with this decoration and indeed going to use it for Thanksgiving and spell out a different message.
*In fact, she did not cry at all, but had a very good time. She celebrated her party day by not taking a nap and instead climbing out of her crib for the first time (and somehow lifting her doll’s stroller up into her crib.) Very pleased with herself about that. Here she is all worn out after the party and opening her presents:
Birds, Pumpkins, and Front Loaders, Oh My!
October 13, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Chickens, Family, Wildlife | 1 CommentWe had a very nice Columbus Day weekend, with lots of highlights. It began when I went out to collect the eggs a few days ago. I opened the rear door to the nesting boxes and there was a hen standing in one. I noticed that her vent was protruding and I realized she was going to lay her egg soon. I figured it would be like having a baby–seems like it’s going to happen any second, but it really takes a while–but I watched her pulse a few time and I saw the egg actually come out!!! In all my years of being around chickens I never actually saw an egg come out of a bird before. It pretty much looked like you might expect. I’m sure most people will be pleased I don’t have a photo to accompany this section
On Friday morning there was exciting activity across the street from us. We live on a narrow road and directly across from our house there is what we call the “pull out”, because it’s like the road veers off and ends, providing a convenient parking area. Dump trucks started showing up and dumping out giant loads of gravel, big pipes and fire hydrants were placed at the edge, and a front loader was parked. Having a front row seat to this has proven vastly entertaining to both children. And, after they were all done (telling us they’d be back on Monday to start work) we let Clark bring his trucks over and play, climb the mountain of gravel, and sit on the front loader.
Promptly at 7am on Columbus Day they began their work, which is installing city water on our street (due to some fascinating contaminated water years ago from some building settlement. Our well is not affected and we are opting out of the city water.) Apparently we will be getting a fire hydrant in our front yard, too. All day long they dump more gravel and then the front loader brings scoopfuls of it down the road to fill in where they’ve dug up the road for the pipe.
On Sunday we had our annual pumpkin picking out at Norz Hill Farm. We love going there, especially taking the kids’ pictures in front of the “How Tall This Fall?” painted wood sign. We have pictures of Clark for four years in a row in front of it. I’d heard reports of pumpkin crops suffering due to this summer’s weather and it turned out to be quite true. In years past the sight of the fields filled with brilliantly colored pumpkins and gourds was quite breathtaking. This year it felt like there were slim pickings. We did get a couple pumpkins and a few gourds, though, and of course the fun is in the whole outing-the hay ride, the hay maze, the lovely autumn day. It is definitely one of my favorite autumn activities.
Out in the field there arestill pumpkin blossoms for fat bumblebees to stuff themselves into. I was very pleased with this pictures–I basically stuck my camera lens into the blossom.
When we got home we arranged all our pumpkins and things on the front porch with the mums. I noticed my dahlias are still going strong and I think they are such striking flowers. Tabitha beheaded a couple.
While we were sitting on the porch admiring everything we noticed a little sparrow flying in and out of the birdhouse. It’s mate was sitting on the branch next to it and they were very noisy. Could they be building a nest? Or just looking for a nice place to stay? We were just charmed by them. Check out the cute birdie and she peeks out and then launches off.
What Should Dolly Wear?
October 6, 2009 at 5:25 pm | In Family, Funky Photos, Sewing | 4 CommentsTabitha loves her baby dolls and kisses them loudly, pushes them around in strollers, puts them to bed, wraps them up, feeds them, and is a very good little mother to them (well, she’s kind of rough with them, but she kills them with kindness.) The dolls are usually naked, except for one that she insisted wear a shirt of hers. As you can imagine it was ridiculously large and she was always needing to be adjusted:
So the other day I did some alterations to the 12-18 month sized bodysuit and voila! Baby has a dress and also a fetching little hat. See how happy she is?
Inspired, I decided to make her a dress out of some other fabric. Here she is in her sailor dress and crazy cap:
Check out this vibrantly orange mushroom I found in the woods (there is no color enhancement on this photo):
Yesterday we went apple picking again. This time we got a good variety of Winesap, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Ida Red. They were all…delicious.
I Will Never be a Daily Blogger
October 4, 2009 at 1:29 am | In Cookery, Family, Sewing, Wildlife | 1 CommentI’d like to think that I’d cook something or create something and immediately have a photo and a little write up, but that’s never going to happen. I like watching tv after the kids are in bed far too much to write every night (though I do actually think about it every night). This also explains why I am not finishing (or starting) sewing and other projects as much as I might like to. Which brings me to a a few cooking highlights from the past week:
Last week we went apple picking, which was a true autumn delight. (Oh, first we visited Denise and her new baby and she loved the quilt.) We picked many huge apples of the Macintosh and Macoun variety, as well as a whole bunch of delicious peaches (I was suspicious of such late peaches, but they were juicy and sweet.)
What to do with all these apples? Well, the next day I made an apple pie, of course. And if I amy compliment my own baking I will just say that it was fantastic and I made a delicious crust.
For dinner I tried a new butternut squash soup recipe. This was a squash and white bean soup and the seasonings were unusual (not in and of themselves, just for this soup) and spicy: cumin, cloves, cinnamon. Of course I used one of our squashes. Look what a nice color-they were definitely the success of our 2009 garden.
Tomorrow I have plans to can apple slices in a red hot cinnamon syrup. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Here’s a neat spider web pic I forgot to put up last week:
Two nights ago it was 5 o’clock and I didn’t know what I wanted to make for dinner. I feel like 5 is the “time to decide” time because I aim for dinner to be ready at 6/6:15 and if we’re having brown rice or something that needs to bake I figure it needs to go in by 5:20. Anyway, I decided I wanted fish and am pleased to report a pretty fabulous dinner was on the table quite on time. But what was best about it was that I made a dinner that was a childhood favorite. I didn’t have a recipe, but it turned out delicious. In fact, it was better than I remembered. Which either means it was just better than I remembered, or the way I made it was actually better than my mom! Clark called this “Fish Muffins” because the dish gets made in a muffin tin. When I was a kid that was also the appeal to me. So novel! Dinner in a muffin tin! Here’s how I made it:
Sauteed mushrooms and the 2 small shallots I had, as well as a green pepper from the garden. Took two pieces white bread out of the freezer and toasted them and the chopped them up. Took all the frozen shrimp I had (about 5 or 6) out of the freezer, ran them under warm water, chopped them up and added them to the pan. When they were cooked I put the sauteed stuff, the bread crumbs, a drained can of crabmeat, some lemon juice, and Old Bay Seasoning all in a bowl and tossed it around well. Meanwhile, I had been defrosting some frozen tilapia fillets. So, you take a piece of fillet and wrap it in a circle in a muffin tin. I used my giant muffin tin so it didn’t make a solid cup, as it would if you used the smaller muffin tin. Then fill the center with your mixture. Drizzle a little bit of melted butter over the top of each and then bake until done. I think I did 400 degrees for 15 minutes. It came out great!
As for sewing, well the fifth expected baby arrived over a month early this week, so now I have that gift lined up as well as another gift for my cousin’s baby (born the preceding week.) I did not work on those thing today, though, instead I finally got around to making Clark his flannel pants. The fabric is a lovely soft flannel, not of a pattern I would have chosen, but he is in love with it–army green airplanes against a cloudy beige background. It’s a very military looking pattern and he just has not clue at all about camouflage or soldiers or anything like that, he just loves the planes. After the last disastrous pants I made him (I think I sewed them upside down so that the inseam ended up being like 8 inches long) I was kind of worried about these. But they came out great! He put them on immediately and wore them for the rest of the afternoon and to bed. I didn’t get to take a good picture of them close up, but here is playing in them:
So there’s the big catchup. Tomorrow is canning and I know I’ll have great pictures because Eleanor will be our photographer for the event!
Fall Begins
September 18, 2009 at 5:22 pm | In Big Green Froggie, Family, Wildlife | 2 CommentsI’m looking forward to yanking everything out of the garden, but there are still loads of green tomatoes all over the plants. Plus one green bell pepper. And lots of white birds egg gourds. And two small watermelons that I doubt will amount to anything (after all, it is mid-September.) While I was in there the other day I was startled to find myself face to face with this lovely:
As Paul said, “You can see why a plague of these would be frightening.”
This week was an exciting one for us as Clark started his second year of nursery school. He’s going three days a week this year and happily he loves school and is never reluctant to go or part with me (but is happy to return home, which is nice.) I admit to enjoying the chance to have a little time alone with Tabitha on those mornings. We putter about and play together and it’s very nice. Here we all are on Clark’s first day:
This morning I was out by the pond checking out the cattails and I was surprised to see this small frog sitting in a plant. he appears two toned.
When I was a kid I recall lighting cattails and calling them “punks.” I’ve been wanting to do that with ours and see if my memory of it making a nice smell is correct or not. I picked one apart and had indeed forgotten just how soft the inside is. When I look at this I think it looks just like the fur of my dear beloved rabbit, Hazelnut.
Paul and I have been watching Mad Men and I am fascinted by Betty Draper and what being a mom meant in that time and place. I love how beautiful and put together Betty looks and sometimes wish I had that glamour in my day. But let’s be honest, I’m happy I can wear jeans every day! Also happy that I don’t need to feed and bathe my kids and put them to bed, all before my husband comes home and I have to serve him his own separate dinner in a beautiful setting.
What’s the Buzz?
August 3, 2009 at 6:46 pm | In Chickens, Cookery, Family, Gardening, Sewing | 3 Comments
Saturday night we had a babysitter and went out to dinner. We followed up dinner out with an exciting trip to Wal-Mart-yes, this is what parents do when they get a few hours to themselves! I picked up a little bit of fabric and Paul chose some bee fabric for Tabitha for me to make her shorts. Yesterday afternoon I sewed them up and I think they came out great! I was really so pleased with them. Paul liked them because he thought they would keep her so busy pointing at all the bees and saying “bee! bee!”, which is indeed true. Here she is in them:
Our chickens are laying like crazy. Now that we are getting NINE eggs a day we see that is a huge difference from a mere 3 eggs a day, even given that two of them automatically go to my friend Jen, who actually owns two of the comets. We need an Egg-O-Mat in front of our house! For those of you who didn’t grow up in Warren, NJ, that would be this.
We have also harvest a bunch of potatoes (why didn’t I take a picture?), the butternut squash are ripening beautifully, the tomatoes are coming in, and for dinner tonight I’m making a tiella-a layered casserole of zucchini, potato, and tomato puree. But I am not Michael Chiarello and so my version is to mix everything up in a bowl and then layer it out, rather than doing his endless step recipe. Check out the far reach of the squash plants:
I’m excited about these bird’s egg gourds:
I am suprised at myself that this month I have much more time to myself than last year, yet last year I did all that canning! Still, this summer I am doing more sewing. I am also looking at my garden a lot in terms of what I’d like to do next year: more flowers, do whatever it takes to get sunflowers and morning glories along the fence, put the herbs in the raised bed with the asparagus, plant more larger perennials in the front, do better with lettuce. I am pleased with what we are producing, though, don’t mean to complain about it!
Yesterday a water lily was blooming and it was lovely. The comets are really enjoying spending time perched in the Japanese maple:
We’ve started work on Clark’s 4th birthday movie. So far we’re in the “selecting photos and videos” phase, which takes a while. We’ve reviewed photos from July, Aug, Sept, and Oct of 2008. If you asked me how Clark is different today as a four year old from a year ago as a three year old, I would have said not at all. But looking at pictures I see that I am wrong-last year his hair was practically a different color, his face looked so much more babyish, and his voice was higher and more babyish. And as for Tabby, well my goodness! First no hair, then finally hair that stood straight up, and now it’s flat and long. Also, when she was a baby she had such a round face with big cheeks. Amazing how easy it is to forget these things. Reviewing the summer photos also has let me see how our yard/garden is different and the same as last year.
OK, must go bring in the two day old laundry from the line (curse you unexpected thunderstorm!).
But wait…You know who else grew up in a year? Our black chickens! I had completely forgotten that when we got them they were small, had tiny combs, and were the same size as our little Comets are now.
BOOOOO! As I was typing this I watched one of them walk up onto our porch, over to the cherry tomatoes, and pluck a ripe one right off the plant!!
When we got them:
And now:
For Tabitha from Grandma
August 1, 2009 at 12:16 am | In Family, Sewing | 3 Comments
A wonderful surprise yesterday-my mother made a quilt for Tabitha! I knew she was working on one, but had kind of forgotten about it and I had no idea what fabrics or pattern or anything. It’s absolutely beautiful and just perfect for her-from the kitty cat fabric to the appliques. I’m quite impressed with the appliques and embroidery and it’s an awfully neat way to jazz up the backing. I also love the choice of bright complementary fabrics.
Front:
Back:
Close up of frog:
Close up of nine-patch:
Front/Back:
Chicken:
And the kitty with button eyes:
(I don’t know why these pictures are weird and sideways but I can’t fix it right this minute.)
Thank you Mom!
Hot, Wet, Hot, Wet
July 31, 2009 at 1:09 am | In Chickens, Cookery, Family, Gardening, Housekeeping (or Lack Thereof), Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Seems everyone is having weather woes, and here in New Jersey it’s been torrential rains, revolting humidity, and freak tornadoes and storms. We were lucky to have just one tree down in our yard (and not a beloved tree), but many of our neighbors had full mature trees uprooted. It’s been quite spectacular driving around and seeing it all. The upside of our fallen tree is that it has become, of course, a piece of playground equipment for us! We’ve all had so much fun walking up and down it that we want to make a little obstacle course for the kids. Every time the kids play in our yard like this (hitting sticks against a tree, for example) and they look a bit grubby I feel like they are Appalachian kids and we now have an Appalachian playground.
Our corn got knocked down again yesterday. It must be very frustrating being a corn farmer! Paul thinks that their corn grows closer together so it doesn’t tip over so easily as ours. I’m hoping we’ll be able to eat some corn soon. In the meantime we just picked a bunch of lovely tomatoes. (and update: for dinner I cooked a couple with basil, garlic, zucchini, and had it with pasta.)
The day’s haul:
The brown hens are all laying now, which means we are getting maximum egg output: 9 eggs a day! (two of those eggs go to my friend who actually owns two of the brown hens). As I’ve mentioned the comets’ eggs are small and dark brown, but they are getting larger. Today two of their eggs were the size of the black hens’!
Last night I stepped outside and felt something wet on my shirt. My immediate reaction was, “SLUG!” and then I thought “that’s a stupid thing to think-how would a slug get up on your shirt? why not think just wet spot from hand washing or a booger from a kid (which is also gross, but more likely)?” I looked down and apparently my instincts were spot on because it was a teeny tiny slug.
Nothing has made me feel quite so old-fashioned/housewifey/homesteady as this: this week we began line drying our clothes. I’ve wanted to for a while since I read constantly about how the electric clothes dryer really uses so much electricity. I couldn’t figure out a good place for a clothesline, though. A broken fan belt of the dryer force me into action. With two wet loads of mildewing laundry I had to go out to Home Depot and buy a clothespole (and my request for one seemed to cause a lot of confusion-is it really such an odd thing??). I was delighted with the results. The clothes dried way faster than I would have thought and I got three loads dried and folded before we had yet another storm that made everything soggy and wet and knocked the pole over. With pole repaired I headed out again today. It’s definitely not a speedy process but there was something inantely soothing about hanging each piece of clothing (and strategically arranging the underwear on the inside lines so no one sees it, as well as distributing the weight evenly) just so. I have to say I’m enjoying it.
Went to the beach yesterday:
Tonight Pippin was barking and barking and it turns out it was at this lovely large Toad:
Great summer days!
A Lot of Catching Up, A Lot of Pictures
July 20, 2009 at 2:01 am | In Chickens, Crafty, Family, Gardening, Sewing | 4 CommentsI’ve been back for a few days now and very eager to post about our garden, our chickens, sewing, etc, but the need for sleep has consistently won out. So, this will be a long and photo filled post. Speaking of photos, I was able to add photos to my last post, so check it out so you don’t miss seeing Mr. Toad (who is not to be confused with Big Green Froggie.)
So, I’m back. And in a mere six days the garden exploded even more. Apparently we harvest two zucchini, a large cucumber, and a cherry tomato. Which probably doesn’t sound like a lot, but it means things are producing!
I didn’t realize we planted butternut squash (my favorite squash), so this was a wonderful surprise hiding under all those gigantic squash leaves and blossoms:
Another surprise–we forgot we planted tomatilloes, but look what we found!
The green beans are abundant and delicious. Clark is even loving them. The corn was astonishing. It may have literally grown a foot in that time and also all of a sudden there are actual ears of corn on it. I can’t wait until they are nice and big and ready to eat.
I was glad I took pictures on Friday afternoon because Friday evening we had an incredible storm. I actually wonder if it might have been a microburst? It left a fair amount of damage in a pretty localized area. In our yard we had a tree down and half of our corn knocked over (but not uprooted or cracked, so we were able to straighten it.) We also lost power from about 9pm to 2am. A drive through town showed that lots of rather large trees had been downed here and there.
As for our flowers, they look good overall. Some areas of the garden I’m definitely mentally marking for improvement next year with more perennials added. A big disappointment was in a little bed that I usually plant with annuals and let it get big and colorful. Last year I had impatients, but in prior years I did zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, morning glories. I preferred that so this year planted all that again and I have but a few zinnias and all the marigolds died. And one single morning glory is blooming (and it’s not even a Heavenly Blue.)
Another surprise waiting for me? Our chickens are now all free range. Apparently the little ones started flying out of the coop and then the ones left behind would get all mad and noisy. I suppose we could clip their wings, but they are actually doing pretty well keeping to our yard (only one crossed the road) and Pippin has not hurt them (though he follows them around.) And see how frightened they are of him?
And the big news? On Thursday two of the little hens laid their first eggs!! We collected five that day (the three older ladies + two of the littles) and on another day we got one little one, and today we got five again. It’s very clear which ones are the little hens-the eggs are small and a darker brown color. So good for them, and especially good for them that they are laying in their nesting boxes.
On the crafty front….my return from this last conference means that I now have a lot more free time. A lot. And I have promised myself all year that I would now delve further into projects for myself, specifically sewing things. I made a good start this summer with the aprons and the dresses for Tabitha, and now I intend to do more. I’ve got a bunch of baby projects lined up for one thing. Today I visited Pennington Quilt Works, which was a beautiful store with loads of gorgeous fabrics all attractively arranged. Lots of the stuff I admire online at fatquartershop.com and fabric.com was there, including Amy Butler designs and Moda stuff. So I bought a bunch more stuff and then went over to my friend’s house for a little tutorial on using the rotary cutter. Thank you, Pookie! I also ordered funky Christmas fabric from the Christmas in July sale at fabric.com.
Paul was super handy today: he went to the hardware store, came home, and built the kids a seesaw! Clark loves it, Tabby is sort of afraid of it, and I will have decent thighs in approximately one month given what a hideous workout it provides to your quads if you are an adult and solely responsible for the up down action of the seesaw.
Friday we went to Ocean Grove for a day at the beach. The water was icy, but Paul and I both went in. The highlight was finding Crabby.
Other recent pics I took and like:
And finally, today is the 7 year anniversary of my first date with Paul. I’m thinking fond thoughts of our dinner at Martino’s, our hilarious coffee at Brewed Awakening, and what a wonderful start it was to the beginning of our lives together.
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