3 things on my mind these days:
knitting
cooking and eating
this place (via budget travel (thanks ma!))

working working working...

oh happy happy friday.

during my lunch break, i picked up some books i ordered from the library.
came back to the office and molly's book was here!
plus, i found this favorite book on the $.25 shelf !start of a great weekend....

hail!

this was a gift a while back

from my mom

it was her first knit blanket
i picked the colors
and she went crazy with the design
isn't it lovely?
it was supposed to be a couch blanket
but we sleep with it every night
i was reminded of it when i this

winter skies

rainy weekend trip to port costa
good friends, drinks and board games
(and maybe a dance party or two)

we live in a happy harmony with our house spiders

it's an old house
nature's just outside the door
it's hard to avoid

they don't bother us
so we don't bother them
(unless they get REALLY big and mean looking)

i kind of think the baby spiders are cute
(dead fly in top photo shown for scale)

got this great puzzle as a gift from my favorite german

hand-cut, nice thick pieces
(german, of course)
we worked on it furiously
until we hit the grey and white blank pieces
then it sat, unfinished, in our living room for months

while we were away on vacation
our friend finished it for us
what a relief!
just packed it up last weekend

been a busy few weeks

quiet past weekend
planted new vegetable seeds
crossed my fingers for the struggling broccoli seedlings
got really happy over our suddenly blooming camelia bush
and enjoyed fantastically sunny weather