happy stuff.

6. an unexpected gift of homemade bread. 7. oranges from our last csa box that still have the leaves on them. beautiful.

i feel like i’ve been digging out from under a giant load of stuff from this semester but today i finally broke through and had a productive day.  i made granola, cooked up and froze a bunch of black beans and ground beef*, i vaccuumed the salt pellets out of the carpets, went shopping (with [...]

i love salted in the shell peanuts.  i don’t really eat them very often, but when i do get a chance to eat them, i love how they taste and i love how they take forever to eat so you don’t eat very many (at least, not as many as you might if they were [...]

snowing this morning i’m sipping a cup of hot tea quietly smiling

i love new flannel sheets. i love how soft and fresh they feel. no pilling yet. no thin spots. no drool patches. i was thrilled a few weeks ago when i went to buy some new flannel sheets (we had none that were appropriate for guests and my parents were coming for a visit) and [...]

during thanksgiving weekend, i got together with a young friend of mine to do some christmas gift crafting.  although we had plans to make lots of different things, the only one we ended up having time to do was ye ol’ marble magnets.  i’ve made these a million times, but i still enjoy making them.  [...]