Day 264 - September 21

After a long summer of watching random TV shows on DVD, real TV started this week.  Tonight - it was Glee!!!

And the surprisingly hilarious Raising Hope that came on right afterwards.

Day 263 - September 20

We bought this picture yesterday at the local art festival, and found time tonight to hang it up.  It's hard to tell from this iphone shot, but it's 4 photographs of a beach & sand dune. 

Made an interesting observation about our differing likes & dislikes in the world of art today. 

I do not understand why people buy winter themed art.  To me, it would be just plain silly to have a New England village or Rocky Mountain ski village or a snow covered tree and lake picture hanging up in the middle of July.  I feel like if a picture has snow in it, it can only be up in a cold month.

However, I do not feel this way about summer artwork.  I don't have any issues with looking at a summery picture in November.

Mike's the opposite. :)

This set of pictures is a compromise - it's a beach, but it's sort of black and white, sort of sepia, and yet still has a hint of color.  Mike says I can't put beach and ocean on every wall in every room.  I said I wouldn't need pictures if all of our windows opened up onto a beach!  :)

Day 262 - September 19

This is this month's read for book club.  I enjoyed it somewhat, however, I have a really hard time reading memoirs ever since the Million Little Pieces debacle.  Whenever there's a moment (good or bad) that is emotional, I think "awwww. TOO BAD IT PROBABLY ISN'T TRUE!" This is not fair to memoir writers around the world, but it's just how it is for me now. :(

Day 261 - September 18

Tonight, we went to Parkville to have Mexican food at El Salto.  It was a case of a restaurant being almost too efficient ... we waited a couple minutes for a table, and we were still out of there in 25 minutes.  Of course waiting forever for a meal is not a good thing, but when it takes less than a half hour I feel rushed.

Since I didn't want to turn around and run right home, we walked across the parking lot to Wockenfuss Candies and picked up an Apple Pie Caramel Apple to bring home for dessert.  (I forgot to take a picture before it was sliced, so you can follow the link to see how pretty it was.)

Verdict? I think the ones with milk chocolate are a little better, but this one was good too. Dipped in caramel, drenched in white chocolate to give it a crust and rolled in cinnamon & sugar. Yum.

Day 260 - September 17

This is our handy, dandy single stream recycling bin.  Check out that paint job.  I downloaded a clip art of the recycle sign, printed it out, and cut it to make a stencil.  We did an ok job, I think.  I wish it could have been a different color than our regular trash can, but this is all Home Depot had because everyone else in the area needed a second trash can for this week as well!

Day 259 - September 16

Tonight, we slaughtered a pig.  Ok, so we really just cut up this hunk of pork loin that I got on Tuesday, but when we were done it looked like we had slaughtered a whole pig.  This turned into 7 portions of meat, each of which is enough for a meal and some leftovers.  Yum.

Day 258 - September 15

The mums are blooming, the mums are blooming!  They're coming in oddly, because each bush is blooming on a different side.

And the bees are EVERYWHERE.  They like mums, big time.  They also like the mystery bush that I call "lettuce" that started flowering this week.  I seriously need to learn about these things...