Another Orbit Beginning....

Yep! Mike had a Birthday! We celebrated by both of us taking the day off work. I made him this chocolate/chocolate cake, his request this year. He had several friends stop in throughout the day and Zeek stayed for a fine dinner of ahi tuna steaks and then to top off the day, we had a Rod & Gun club meeting, the first of the year. Not what either of us really wanted to do, but, Oh Well!

Mike went out with the "boys" after the meeting.....I went home.

cuppa

I was making my morning cup and left the room, on my way back into the room, this scene was pretty to me so I took a foto of the steam rising in the kitchen window sunlight....note the sink is even empty! Perhaps that is why this was so pretty to me!

Easter

Here is the bread bag I made last night. When I first started making bread, I was storing it in a plastic bag, OK, Mike was storing it in a plastic bag and it kept molding! Ugh! So I tried a few different things and ended up wrapping the bread in a tea towel which works handily. Then I read on the internet about keeping fresh baked bread and what did they suggest? A tea towel! How about that?! (In the bread box, which I do not have, nor do I have room for on my counters) I cut the tea towel and sewed it into a bread bag and I had this embroidery I was messing with that I didn't know what to do with, so I sewed that on there too! I haven't mastered the buttonhole yet so I couldn't figure out how to do a draw string without it fraying, so I added ties and they work quite nicely! Mike gave me a bit of grief about having an "artistic" bread bag....oh well! (I actually made two and the other one is also embellished!)

Goodwill Treasure!

I just have to share this fabulous Goodwill find! I got this at the Lewiston, Idaho Goodwill store.

I know it is weird and funny, but I simply could not resist! It just cracks me up!

Mike and I listened to side one over a beer last night. It wasn't as bad as it seems it would be!

AND the lyrics are in German and listed on the back so we can sing along! WhooooHOOO!

It says "all the gusto and fun of a German beer hall in your own home!" "Sing, Dance and drink!"
See?! How was I to resist that?!

Trip to Idaho

Friday afternoon Mike and I left for Moscow, Idaho for my sister, Annie's masters thesis defense. This is an Idaho Vandal fire hydrant. I couldn't resist the photo!

Here is a photo of Annie and her panel of thesis judges.

It is finished!

Here are the "girls", My sister Deborah, Annie, Mom, Vickie Lynne (Don's daughter and Annies hallf sister from Texas) and moi.

good-bye winter

"For, lo, the winter is over and past,the rain is over and gone;

The flowers appear on the earth;

the time of the singing of birds is come,

and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land..."

The Song of Solomon, 2: 11-12

For lo, the rain is not over and gone! In fact, it hasn't even started yet, but we know it will!

In the meantime, we revel in each sunny day and wear ourselves out in the fresh air;

prematurely doing all we can in the yard as an excuse to be outside!

And the birds will still sing even when it is raining and the rain will wash away the last of our snow.

Tell me, have any of you heard the voice of the turtle? Just wondering.

Moon time

PLANTING MOON

As is the garden such is the gardener,

A man's nature runs either to herbs or to weeds.

- Francis Bacon

I was doing dishes and watching the moon rise over the hill and couldn't help it, I had to try to take a photo, knowing good and well that they rarely turn out well....I like some of these and they do capture the mood for me. Note the subtleties, the brush and tree limbs in the foreground

and such....