The end of my vacation, that is. Tomorrow I must face whatever chaos audit has unleashed on my inbox in my absence. Lordy ( Read more... )

...is a bedroom for Max ( Read more... )

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I sang this as a song at Albermarle...I could only remember the "...when the house doth sigh and weep..." verse though. Pretty song ( Read more... )

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There's Titan.


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We watched Howl's Moving Castle on Monday. It's been out for a while, I don't know why we didn't see it sooner. The previews didn't really do it justice, and although I LOVE the Chrestomanci books and HMC is by the same author, and we really like Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away, and the same guy did the animation for this one...we didn' ( Read more... )

Well, it's a bit damp and spongey in the middle. I think cooking it in the oven might help this. Trying to get the sort of air holes and lift that wheat bread has is damned tricky though. Bread is serious chemistry. I almost flunked chemistry ( Read more... )

Gluten-free bread attempt #1 in the bread machine...

I usually have a pot of lavender going during the summer, but it always croaks around the end of August when things get really blasted by the sun. This year I planted it all along the walk though, and it's been flowering since Halloween ( Read more... )