Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous? Poor Cheetara. If you’re grossed out by facts of nature, you may want to stop reading here. Over the last couple of heat cycles, Cheetara has started having, well, a period. It’s very common for in tact animals to emit drops of blood during estrus, but neither of […]
[Continue reading...]Sweet and Crunchy Chicken Salad
July 14, 2010
We’ve reached a point in the summer when trying to come up with dinner is my most detested chore. I don’t want to do anything that would bring heat in my general direction. Salads are a great solution to this, but judging by what you see on restaurant menus, it seems like there are only […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #28
July 13, 2010
Do yourself a favor. Don’t even try these. Don’t even walk down their aisle. They are trouble and you will never be able to undo that first taste. You’ll be hooked for life.
[Continue reading...]Mondrian Quilt Top
July 12, 2010
Piet Mondrian. Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours. 1919. As a comparison, here’s the original piece. I made a to scale replica of this painting in quilt form, and I am just so dang impressed with myself. I made it 12′ x 12′ so I don’t have to add a border or anything, just […]
[Continue reading...]How to hang a row of pictures.
July 9, 2010
So I had this long narrow section of wall in between a window in the back door. But I also had a set of three wooden panels that used to sit in three wall cutouts in the last house, so that it seemed like a match made in heaven. Until I set about trying to […]
[Continue reading...]Proof
July 8, 2010
Poor Atticus is the cobbler’s kid who has no shoes. 2 1/2 years old and not a single scrapbook page. That was one of my big goals this year, and upon discovering that the year was more than half over, I figured I better get something going. It’s been a whole lot of time since […]
[Continue reading...]Roasted artichokes with Remoulade
July 7, 2010
Whenever I get together with my cousin Karen, we often end up devouring our weight in artichokes. She is maybe the one person on the planet who loves them as much as I do. A couple of years ago we drove to LA to try and catch a taping of American Idol, but didn’t make […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #27
July 6, 2010
A full day crammed with fun Atti and Bear in the pool Until the toes got all pruny Blessed uninterrupted hours to do a puzzle and not feel guilty about making better use of my time Atti savoring his first bite of chocolate ice cream Grandma disobeying and giving him a few more than one […]
[Continue reading...]Meeting with a Mentor
July 5, 2010
There’s a side to me that you may only see hinted at if you only know me from this blog. I’ve talked plenty about how I’m LDS and work with the teenage girls. I have a link to the blog I write for geared to LDS Young Women leaders, but I also write for Feminist […]
[Continue reading...]Yo Yo GA!
July 2, 2010
My dearest Karen gave us this bouncer when her littlest lost interest in it, and it has been amazing. Atti will bounce in it literally for hours. He calls it his “Shake-a Shake It” This is all he wants to do anymore. He’ll say, “Let’s go. Shake-a shake it. Yo yo ga.” Like, “Hop to […]
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