Projet du jour

Desk before Here's what I need to get accomplished today… Alex wants to take this desk (yes, there is actually a desk under there!) to his new apartment the day after we get back from Mississippi, so that means I need to clear all my junk off / out of it today 😮 Which really…

The generosity of friends

P1000927 Here is over $1600 worth of cash and building supply gift cards, donated by our friends at church and our family – ready for us to take on our upcoming trip back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Thank you to everyone for the generous donations! You can rest assured that every dollar will be…

Sweet!

Oooo… Thank you Santa for my new laptop! [though of course I chose it myself - a Dell Vostro 1500 2 GHz 2G RAM w/ Vista Ultimate] Sooo much faster! Now I can catch up on my Voxing! Just have to get used to this darn keyboard… Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Just in time!

Nativity There! I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out – and with a whole day to spare! I think it'll make a nice gift for a family with very young children. Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Sheep

Sheep Finished the sheep – I'm giving the donkey a miss since I'm clearly out of time! The one with no legs is meant to be kneeling – hopefully it'll look less like a quadriplegic once it's stuffed… [today's project] Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Crazy Kitchen

  Cucina Pazzo I had a lovely birthday dinner the other night at our favorite close-to-home restaurant, Cucina Pazzo. We had had them cater Alex's grad party, and since then, they've remembered us when we go, knowing for example that we prefer to eat outside when it's nice.   Actually, it's pretty much the only legitimate…

It was 20 years ago today…

This day 20 years ago was a Sunday, and my parents were driving over to Ohio to visit us for my birthday dinner. But by the time they arrived around 2:00, they found my friend Sue at the house instead, who we had called around noon to watch Nikki while we went to the hospital to have…