Author: lis

last week these pallets were covered with trays of spring flowers. now that March has reclaimed its rightful place on the calendar, they’ve been removed. I assume to someplace warmer.

our dining room and sunroom. in a few weeks, the sunroom will be gone….

Doug was very busy today; got almost all of the kitchen packed up and/or moved to the basement. It’s Plastic Plate City for us for the next couple months at least…

given the condition of this toaster oven, this warning may come in handy any day now.

this is a cool trick: stick an egg in vinegar for a few days and the shell will dissolve. but you’ll still have a raw egg. but I only wanted to remove the shell from  half the egg. so I stuck it in a funnel in a jar and filled it with vinegar. sometimes I am amazed at my own cleverness.

started to bloom today. yep, they’re early. at least they waited til it’s officially spring.

I loved the juxtaposition of my coworker’s sassy pink boots among all the business-casual neutrals.

this is the countertop. it has various stains on it from over the weekend. I don’t really care. in fact, I’m taking a certain pleasure in not cleaning it up because I know that 2 weeks from now this dreadful counter will be gone forever.

I know a lot of people think cemeteries are creepy, but I think they are a lovely place to go for a walk. Even super-Catholic ones, like this, because no one’s trying to force religion down your throat.

scorpions glow turquoise when you shine black light on them! isn’t that cool!? There are a lot of ideas about why this happens but no one’s really sure. at any rate, it’s a handy way to keep an eye out for the little buggers if you’re out walking in the desert at night.