Another Long and Sad Tale of Misery and Loss

I’m really terrible at sleeping.  I never win when I play “Nap.”  I covet every minute of sleep I can get.  If I get five hours straight at night I feel very accomplished.
So, what happened this morning at 3:00?  I was awakened by a crash.  I figured that the cats had knocked something down.  I also [...]

A Gal After My Own Heart

Yesterday I had a patient–a first-timer–who announced that she had just made a big batch of scones and she thought the mammo machine would have been great for flattening the dough. 
I had to agree that it was a great idea.  You could get them uniform in thickness without handling the dough so much. 
Then, when I [...]

Scenes from Saturday

I made a loaf of bread from dough I mixed up the other night. 
I had to sample it while it was still warm.
 
 

My kitchen window.

Alice, you are SO back-lit!
 

Homemade English muffins.

My lunch.  It was better in theory.
 

Cappuccino at Borders.  I also looked at two lovely sewing books.

I found these skirts at Old Navy.

My slow-cooker beef, [...]

Relax your lip?

Check out my treat bag from the dentist:

It is my reward for enduring my cleaning session yesterday. 
Dental hygienists work for their money, and deserve every penny–and probably more. 
Or…..are they evil? 
No, no, I kid.  When I think about what I do for a living, I have no right to malign any other healthcare professional.  I’m accused [...]

Don’t knock it ’til you tried it

And now in the Everything’s Better Drenched in Egg Yolk category, I bring you my dinner this evening. 
I was taking my daily stroll around tastespotting when I found a link to Chez Us (who cited Donna Hay) and was inspired to make this: 

It’s basically pasta tossed with roasted garlic, cream and olive oil topped with a soft boiled [...]

Craftiness

This is a kitchen curtain I made over the weekend.
I bought the fabric at IKEA. 
It is pretty much what I had in mind, so I guess it was a success.  It’s really just a custom-size valance.  I like to be able to see out–the ocean is out there! And since the window is irresistible to [...]

A long and sad tale of misery and loss

This is what I found when I turned on my computer after I got home from my trip. 
Is this not the saddest thing you’ve seen in a while?
It makes me wonder what happened. 
Here are the facts: 
1.I had left the computer on the chair in my bedroom.  I put it there because the cats were to [...]

And now for some schmaltz…

So, I took  my big trip.  Since I’m a terrible blogger and didn’t properly photograph a lot of details of my trip there won’t be a travelogue. But, since most of my readers were where I was, it really wouldn’t be very exciting anyway.
I will try to post some terribly clever things here in the [...]