End of Summer Friday Flickr Five

retro mechanical pencil from zebra | simple pretty

I’m closing out the “first week of school” (hooray!) postings with a photo of the nifty little mechanical pencil I picked up on Wednesday. It’s from Zebra, and I love it. It gives a little personality to my Sudoku work. My son noticed my new office supply right away, and wants his own, so looks like I’ll be picking up another next week …..

And as for my routine, I did get back into the habit of cooking by making dinner Thursday night. I highly recommend Food & Wine’s Pasta with Sausage, Basil, and Mustard recipe from Nigel Slater. Very yummy (my husband gave it 9 out of 10), spicy, and best of all, fast.

On with the Five:

  1. A tinge of Autumn
  2. scraps
  3. Oyster House in Fog
  4. BLT -with LOBSTER!!!
  5. untitled

Hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I am taking Monday off from the blogosphere to spend with my boys. (We have no soccer scheduled. Can you believe it ?) See you back here on Tuesday. It will be September, it will be fall, and I cannot believe how quickly the summer flew by.

4 Comments

  1. Truly Smitten
    August 29, 2008 / Permalink

    Happy Labor day weekend to you too! Speckled egg, do you design any cards too?

  2. simplesong
    August 29, 2008 / Permalink

    have a great weekend! love that pencil!

  3. cyndi & lee
    August 29, 2008 / Permalink

    That recipe sounds fantastic! I’ve just printed it off so I can delight my husband with it next week. I just love that it’s fast and so full of flavor. Thanks for passing it along.

    I adore your new pencil! That would be a perfect stocking stuffer for my husband, right along with a new Sudoku book.

  4. mary
    August 29, 2008 / Permalink

    WOW – those pics are wonderful! That lobster BLT just made my stomach growl. YUM!

    And that recipe sounds great. I’m saving that one – say the words “pasta”, “spicy”, and “sausage”, and you’ve got his perfect meal!