animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

black swan

Cripes. I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to blog about this movie, which we watched last Friday. Saturday we had a wedding and Sunday Jake had a belated birthday pool party with his friends at my in-laws’ pool. Beyond that, we have been spending time at the office …

real birthday

My birthday started off on a bad note. I was outside doing a few things and I got stung by a wasp. But, thanks to Jake’s quick fingers, we found a couple of remedies to try and one of them worked. We tried onion, baking soda paste, ice, and Tylenol. …

megamind

This was a pretty good film, for a cartoon. Will Ferrell did the voice for the title role and he was totally excellent. All three of us enjoyed it. Sadly, Brian fell asleep halfway through (I don’t remember the last time he made it through a movie, though).

fruit

I planted some fruit trees last year (apple, peach, and cherry). I didn’t get any fruit from them last year, but this year, there are little fruitlings on all of the trees. The peach and apple have a decent amount of fruit on them, but there are like three cherries …