Okay, so maybe the title for this post is too dramatic. It’s just that I’ve been a fan of The Sound of Music for years and years. It was one of my all-time favorites as a kid, which is saying something for a movie that required a kid to switch from one VHS tape to…
Christmas Baking (Stage 1)
Friday marks a big event in my “moving to a new place” timeline. It will be one of the first large social events I’m attending on my own. Since it’s a ladies’ Christmas party, I think going without Scott is probably the best answer. This particular Christmas party also means it’s baking time, since the…
A Buck for All Seasons
It’s still deer hunting season, but even when it isn’t, we have a buck year-round. And because we’re so incredibly creative, his name is Buck. (I actually didn’t name him, and I actually do like his name. A little bit of obvious naming never hurt anyone.) He was Scott’s first buck, and I happen to…
Holiday Residue
There are a few things happening in my brain right now. 1) I’m sleepy. It’s a half hour before I have to leave for work, and I am desperately fighting to be productive. One load of laundry has been switched over. Dishes have been loaded into the dishwasher. Lunch has been put together. I have…
Giving Thanks
Peanut gave thanks last night for his holiday leftovers. Personally, I love his manic, “I just got a turkey bone” face. It looks like he got away with something he doesn’t want us to know about. Even though Scott handed him his prize, and I was happily documenting.
Non-traditional Holiday Prep
Of course, since we’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, there were oodles and oodles of recipes to pick and groceries to buy. And of course, I went grocery shopping after work on the one night that involved 37 degree weather mixed with decently heavy rain and large rivers through the parking lot. On top of that,…
Return to the Land of Books
Sometime in the past few years, I forgot what it’s like to work in a library. You’re constantly (or semi-constantly) helping people find books or making lists of books or sorting through new books. So if you’re someone who likes to read, it’s natural that you’ll find at least one book a day that you…
Small, but valuable. 