This morning there were two birds on the roof, a cardinal and a mockingbird. They both are always around the yard or the neighbors' yards, but I've never seen the cardinal this close-up before ( Read more... )

Was it whole wheat, or did it have bran added, or both? In any event, it tasted good as cookies during late-night Parr House SF viewings, and I heard that it was sometimes made as a bar cookie.

I needs it. Does any of you has it?

An Untitled Poem by Bert
inspired by "Portrait of Emile Bernard" by Emile Schuffenecker, c. 1889
on display at the MFAH
(no online image is available and believe me, I looked!)

The man in the twilight-zone blue coat has sleepy pink thoughts of flowers.
He has watery blue-green worries
And his sadness is green like the ocean.

An Untitled Poem by Ernie
inspired by "Moonrise: Soldier and Maiden" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1905
on display at the MFAH

It is a sunny day
Far far away.
The color flows from everywhere
Color here and color there.
Yellow and black
Pink and green
Colors are exactly
What I mean.


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I stole the link to this article off of a certain puppet of cheese's LJ.

Did you go to a certain midwestern college? I think the article pertains to that as well as grad skool.

I can't think of any of the cute things the wee ones have done lately. They're always cute, but I don't remember the best bits this week ( Read more... )

Why bedtime cuddles are awesome ( Read more... )

I bin lazy bout postin ( Read more... )

The CD player is selecting at random from five very different Christmas CDs, the children are decorating the tree, the house is clean, the shopping is essentially done (the rest cannot be done for a few days), and I'm updating the checkbook but it's all deposits and no withdrawals ( Read more... )

Ernie loves to give people backrubs. (I know, I don't deserve it! But I love it.) For her birthday last March, we gave her a "spa set" with a couple of rollers and a loofah and a book of home recipes for spa treatments ( Read more... )