date night.
he surprised me and took us to see this
i was so taken by this piece.
it was a fun night hanging with ira and chris.
well that was a nice long break now wasn’t it?
life has been full these days.
and on top of it i decided to take a little break from the computer which has enabled me to get lots accomplished here at home.
i painted my bedroom and i love it. it used to be a deep blue and now it is my favorite benjamin moore ‘revere pewter’.
now i want to spend all of my time in bed!
it is amazing how paint can completely change the feel of a room.
my grandfather crafted my bed and built in closets. i only have one little dresser in my room and the rest is completely built in.
chris has some pretty little knobs ready to go for the drawers along the bottom of the bed.
i made another hanging planter for in between the windows. this time from a basket.
i want to make one of these for the opposite wall and then i think the room will feel complete.
ok off to take a nap.
this past thursday night chris and i taught another backyard chicken workshop.
the second part of the workshop was today where people came to our backyard to see our little operation.
yesterday chris put up a few yew branches for the hens to roost on.
they love to get up onto things.
the flat roof of the hen-house is a nice landing place for them. however they also poop all over it and it looks a bit gross.
i would have loved to put a living roof on top but they would have destroyed it. especially since most nights they like to sleep up there.
i had chris make a little lip all around the top so we could fill it with straw.
now they have a nice place to rest and it looks a lot nicer.
until we can replace that window on the shed i am going to try to fill the openings with plants, similar to a living pallet wall.
i also made another hanging planter for right outside the coop.
those planters are a bit addictive.
i have a few pieces of pottery set aside to turn into more planters today.
i would love one in my bathroom, above the kitchen sink and my front porch i think is in need of a little cluster of them.
in other news it is raining!! yippee!
it is supposed to rain all day into tomorrow.
i can hear my garden singing for joy.
i have been waiting for a cozy rainy day.
curried lentil soup is on the stove, a batch of granola is in the oven and there will be roasted chicken for dinner.
happy sunday friends! xo
a little recipe for catnip insect repellent over at tend.
it’s been snowing here for days, beautiful pink snow.
our cherry trees are in full bloom and each time the wind blows it snows.
it’s been quite warm here this week and all of the windows are open.
i have yet to put the screens in though.
which means it snows inside too.
but i don’t mind a few petals on my pillow.
yesterday i said to myself “wow i did absolutely nothing today” and then i realized that i had done more than i have in a while.
i slept in til 9 o’clock (was out late for the reunion), made a fairy house with norah, played rummy 500 and scrabble with hannah, made popsicles, sat in the sun on the back porch and went to an afternoon movie with chris.
why is it that doing nothing seems to translate as something negative?
or that doing nothing means not getting anything done around the house or crossing anything off of your list.
i have decided that i want to do a lot more of nothing because nothing is what we are all are going to remember the most.
:: a little post about transplanting over at tend
:: i hope you all have a lovely weekend in store. it’s supposed to be beautiful and warm here although i sure wouldn’t mind some rain. it’s been really dry and i can’t remember the last time i had to water this early. as much as i am loving all of the sun i long for a cozy rainy day.
:: i have my high school reunion tonight. it’s been 20 years. i only graduated with 26 people (all girls). we were all like sisters in a way. there were 6 amys in my class. we had a blast. i was one of the class clowns. i don’t remember a whole heck of a lot of what i learned but i sure had fun. i use to hate studying and writing papers. my best friend was an excellent student, super responsible and ended up being president of the school in senior year. i would get all goofy when we would study together. she would have to lock me out of her room in order to concentrate. she called me yesterday and left a message asking me what i was going to wear. it felt like old times before we were going to a dance or party.
sometimes….
i prefer eating out of bowls, mugs and cups (plates are overrated).
i wonder what kind of boy we would have made.
i eat soup for breakfast (in a mug).
i wish i could bottle up the smell of a campfire as a perfume.
i wished i liked me more in dresses.
i prefer to find out what is going on in the world by listening to “wait wait don’t tell me”.
i want to beg chris to cut his hair but realize i wouldn’t want anyone asking me to cut mine.
i wished my girls didn’t like pop music so much.
i wished i didn’t like pop music so much (well just some of it).
i wish i had kept up with piano lessons when i was a kid.
i fall asleep in the bathtub.
i dream about people who’s blogs i read and who’s photos i view on flickr.
i get embarrassed about those dreams.
i wonder if anyone dreams about me.
a little road trip to crystal cave and hawk mountain.
saw mostly vultures.
felt good to get away for the day.
whenever we do i wish that we do it more.
then i start to plan all of the trips i want to take.
trying to decide between here and here for a summer trip.
you know that feeling you get when you sometimes write a simple word like the or yesterday and you look at it for a while and wonder if it really is spelled properly, like you have never even seen the word before.
or when you look in the mirror and get that weird feeling like “is that really me?”
maybe none of you have had these thoughts or feelings. maybe i am just weird.
but lately i have been having those same strange feelings when i think about the fact that my girls will not live with me forever.
chris just rolls his eyes when i get all misty eyed and ask him “has it hit you yet that one day they will move out?”
i know i shouldn’t be focusing on these things and gosh it’s not like it’s tomorrow or anything but maybe it’s the fact that hannah is now 10 and man that just flew by. i felt like it was yesterday (yes it’s spelled properly) when i would see moms on the playground with “older kids” and think how far away that was.
now i am the mom with the “older kids”
believe me i want them to move out one day and be independent and travel and learn new things without me.
but i won’t lie when i say how much i love when hannah tells me she wants to move in next door when she grows up.
and yes i am fully aware that this probably means that she will move far far away.
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