26 posts tagged “flowers”
Hello Hood! I had a busy weekend. It will take me quite some time to read all your posts, so I may not comment on all, I will read them though! I will start with Friday I guess. I got my hair cut as you all know, it is SO easy to do, I love it! Today I am going to let the curls air dry to see if it looks good or not, hopefully good because that is how I do my hair most days. I rode my bike around town, stopped in my fave antique shop and they gave me a small stack of photos, I will photograph my fave of the bunch later, it is gorgeous.
Saturday we went to the Zoo with Lucy the Poet and her lovely children. Her Son makes me envious of all his energy, her children are both such joyful beautiful kids. We also visited Camp long to take pictures of a certain mask that inspired Lucy to write for our book. It is starting to come together, the book, and it is very exciting. I have a lovely list of things to be on the look out for. After we left Seattle we had to find a Father's day gift for my Pop, I am lame. I was not on the ball about it.
Sunday, We slept in late and I worked on the book, while Mr. Lavender went out for a run in the woods. He always comes back so muddy. Then off to My sister's house for a fathers day BBQ. The kids are always so much fun. We had a good time.
It does not sound like much of a weekend when I write it all down. I wonder where all the time went!
13 Things I need to do this weekend
1. Make my brother a graduation card and shove some cash inside
2. Get my hair cut off, I am officially sick of it
3. get some vegetarian dishes for the meat filled BBQ graduation party for my brother
4. make sure my camera battery is charged for this weekend, in fact, I should do that now. Seems like a detail I will forget if I don't do it now. Okay, charging, glad I did that.
5. do yoga and take a hot shower before SIL digs her massage therapist fingers of steel into my sore muscles. She says she will be here at 11, so it will be about noon.
6. get ink for the printer, I want to print some pictures of those sweet pups from yesterday and give them to the owner.
7. put newly made cat food into containers and put 2 in the freezer
8. Go to the farmers market, on our bicycles. Gas is expensive! The weather is supposed to be great too.
9. make zucchini lasagna for dinner tonight.
10. take a walk this afternoon after my massage / beating. The weather will be Lovely!
11. If I go out to eat with SIL, I need to stick with a big salad, no bad stuff! I am finally starting to see some thinning of my spare tire. NICE!
12. Get a dinner menu done and grocery list, then to the grocery store. yuck.
13. look for beauty wherever I go. Take deep breaths and don't let people get under my skin. There will be a lot of time with family, lots of hiding me inside because I just get so nervous with them. sigh, I mean Deep Cleansing breath ;-)
I will ease you into it, I warn you, the cute is BIG, but in such small packages. I took a walk around my hood, through alleys and gravel sidewalks. It was not cold, but it was cloudy. Nice weather. I enjoyed myself very much. So I am almost done, rounding my way down the street to my house, reaching into my purse to get my keys ready when I look down the road away from my house. I see teeny balls of something frolicking in some grass, I was unsure what they were, Kittens? Puppies? I could not tell. I walked over to them. OMG! I almost was killed dead by the cute! Scroll down to see who I met, My neighborhood just got a bit cuter!
cute
Tonight I will make this awesome spaghetti, it is SO easy to make and it is SO delicious!
First, Boil water for the whole wheat spaghetti and cook al dente.
* in a blender or food processor blend 1 can of Diced Tomatoes w/ garlic, 2 fresh chopped tomatoes, 1 cup fresh basil leaves, 5-7 minced garlic cloves (recipe calls for 2 TBSP but we love garlic), 2 TBSP olive oil, fresh ground pepper. Blend until just chunky
* In a bowl mix the cooked noodles (easier to mix if you snap the noodles in half before you cook them) and the sauce.
*Sprinkle lemon juice over the pasta and top with goat cheese.
Seriously a 15-20 minute meal. SO GOOD!
Tomorrow I am going on a field trip with my photography class. I am excited but also nervous. I get so nervous for such silly reasons. We are going out to Orting, Farmland. It sounds like a lovely trip. BUT, it is supposed to be raining! YUCK! I need to stop by the thrift store today to see if I can pick up a rain slicker and maybe a camera bag. I refuse to pay full price for these things. I am a total penny pincher.
I am hoping to get home at a decent time in the afternoon, our towns farmers market starts tomorrow too! We buy as many of our groceries there as we can. It is early in the season, so it is basically just greens, but they are SOOOOO good!
Sunday seems like it will be a nice relaxing wear your jammies till noon type of day. Maybe I will go to the park to see if that mama goose has hatched her babies yet. They are so cute.
Todays list:
*dishes and countertops
*laundry
*upload photos from my walk along the RxR tracks to flickr
*work out
*walk to thrift store to see if they have items I need, and maybe items I don't (Haha)
Things I am not liking this morning:
1. never went grocery shopping and so I did not have plain yogurt for my smoothie
2. I had flavored yogurt so I decided to use that even though it would probably be too sweet, but discovered it was past it's expiration date, then realized it was past it's expiration date when I bought it!
3. my arms are SO sore from scrubbing the river rocks SIL and I picked up for my massage
4. when I went garage sale-ing with granny I picked up some vintage clothes, and one shirt was too small and I got stuck in it. Husband had to help me out. We were laughing really hard, so I guess this belongs in the list below, but I really liked that shirt and was bummed it was too small.
5. Camera bags are expensive and ugly. I want cute!
Things I like about this morning:
1. husband has dentist appointment and we got to sleep in an extra hour.
2. I got a new close up filter, as you can see to the side, a few of these pictures are magnified quite a bit.
3. I am making a new friend in photography class, she is really nice and I think she should start a blog here even though she does not think she can write or have anything to talk about. I think that she would be surprised at how fun this is. ;-) (I know you are reading this!)
4. There is a class field trip this weekend, and next weekend some of us might get together too. I like photo walks.
5. I gave my baby brother some awesome vintage t-shirts that I don't wear anymore, it made him SO happy! One of the shirts is a 1984 Police concert tour shirt. It is awesome.
6. After scrubbing about 50 rocks, my hands are SO SOft! I think I scrubbed my fingerprints off, I can totally commit a crime and they would only find smudgy fingerprints.
7. I am getting a massage today, SIL needs to test the rocks we just found
8. It is sunny now, but at about 5am, it was POURING
and it sounded so lovely!
Photo Quest #13 was to describe Spring (or Autumn) and what it means to you.
Well Spring here in Western Washington is like a kid waking up for school on Monday, Cranky, screaming "5 more Minutes of Winter! " followed by fits on angry hail, rain storms, wind. Then after the Shower, there are rainbows, Tulips, and fresh green leaves waking up from a long winter. As soon as you start to enjoy this bit of spring you mention something Spring does not like and they Storm off to bed again leaving the ground frozen and littered with ice pellets. This is what Spring means to me. Haha! Here are my Three Submissions.
The longer I stay at home and heal myself, the stronger my little internal caller ID/ connections with others get. I am glad, it shows how much I have healed.
These pictures were taken at our local butcher shop where we buy meat for our home made cat food. They are really great people, they believe in community and do not allow the other farmers to become shady in their farming practices. They have high standards for who they buy from. We buy eggs from the chickens too. :-)
I will photograph my day and show you all tomorrow!
Have a great Friday all! I will!
I am thinking maybe some fruit trees, but our yard is not really that big. Anyway, here are a few more photos of the backyard.
Things On Tuesday
Loathe:
*getting out of my jammies
*looking at the piles of dishes that must be done
*looking at the long list of stuff to be done, then looking outside and seeing the sun tease me (nana, you have to go to the store and not get to play in my warmth!)
*being awoke in the night by my deaf cat while he announces every time he moves
LOVE!:
*sunshine and 50 degree days! That is Shorts weather here in Washington!
*Coffee in the morning
*still sitting in my jammies at 1 pm
*husband took today off for a 4 day weekend!
*Husband
*I took the thing off of my wrist! My hand is FREE!
*cats laying in sun patches across the house
*spring!
*husband singing while he is getting ready for a run
*so many things, seriously I could go on and on, I love that!