Absentee Blogger

It’s not that nothing’s going on - we’re landscaping and gardening our hearts out… when we’re home.  It’s been a pretty busy few weeks here, which means lots of phò dinners out, coffee mugs piling in the sink, and laundry reaching the ceiling.  Yikes.

One of our “relaxing” moments came with this found chiminea - so excited to sit down and enjoy, we fired it up with just a little too much wood:

Don’t worry - Chris hasn’t been scorched alive by the killer chiminea just yet - it’s just a freaky photo.  We now know to just put one log at a time in this beast.  Needless to say, it was not such a relaxing evening, as we were too busy making sure the sparks wouldn’t light our houses on fire.

On my list of things to do once the crazy dies down around here:

Garam masala cookies - I had some at People’s, and am determined to make them myself

Homebaked bread for our morning toast - I know, summer is not the typical time for firing up the oven, but I have the kneading itch

Harvesting more of our delicious tomatoes, peppers, herbs, eggplants, tomatillos and melons - I may need to suspend the CSA box while things are exploding in the garden

Cheese Battle, Take 3

Finish my rag rug made from old clothes (I’m far too impatient to actually learn to crochet, so I’m doing it half-assed - pictures to come)

Learn how to use my new camera - coming in the mail any day now - a gift to myself to make up for all the extra work I’m doing!