October 17, 2007 – 5:30 am
After a summer of cooking avoidance (save the grill), fall always lures me back into the kitchen, with visions of shopping, baking, and cooking. My Martha Stewart fantasies run amok. Yesterday, to get the ball rolling, I eased back into it by practicing some “almost” cooking. For an after-school snack, I made Barefoot Contessa’s chocolate […]
October 16, 2007 – 5:16 am
Well, after a very dry September, it’s back to rain in these parts. Which is great for our newly planted French pussy willows, part of our long-unfulfilled plan to block our view of the alley. Here’s hoping that the plan b willows do the job!Sitting at soccer practice last night (the rain held off for […]
October 15, 2007 – 5:42 am
After a weekend of weather that looked like November, even if it felt warmer, I plowed through a lot of reading ….. which means I have info to pass along. i.} Today, Jennifer Murphy is on the Martha show making a sweet pumpkin man. Gotta see that! and tomorrow, she updates the shop with Halloween […]
October 12, 2007 – 6:11 am
Friday, again. But this week, it feels like fall instead of summer. (I’ll be the parent shivering in fleece during this week’s set of soccer games.)On with the Five: Greed well good morning to ewe too fish and lobster the furnace kicked on this morning [365.18] autumn If you’d like more of fall, and you […]
October 11, 2007 – 5:58 am
I love Kate Spade’s “behind the curtain” site. It’s so beautifully done, and full of things that I love obsessing over, like the desktop profiles, mix tapes, or just scrolling through the “things we love” to find something new. Yesterday, while clicking around to sites I haven’t visited in a while, I noticed that there […]
