Month: August 2014
Water Lily Photos from the Museum Garden
My photos of the beautiful water lilies in the sculpture garden from our visit to the North Carolina Art Museum…
My Husband’s First Homegrown Cabbage
Tonight we ate my husband’s first homegrown cabbage. It was delicious braised in organic cream.
More Sacramento Food
The above dinner our daughter bought me in the airport as a special treat to thank me for my hard work moving her into her apartment…
Bottle Brush Bush
I learned the name of another new tree: the bottle brush bush. It is out our daughter’s new dining room window in Sacramento, and it is strikingly lovely.
Outlander Book Series & TV Premiere
I’ve had the above book Outlander on my shelf for years. I bought it with a Border’s gift card at the store’s closing at the urging of friends that loved it.
Movie Review: The Hundred-Foot Journey
I absolutely loved this movie and give it an enthusiastic 5 stars.
Photos of a Bumpy Landing
Flying home after working hard on our daughter’s new apartment on the other side of the country, I took these photos during a bumpy landing in Chicago…
Our Daughter’s Sacramento Apartment
After an intense several days our daughter’s apartment is starting to come together nicely.
Kitchen Drawers Before and After
The results are rather good, and I was pleased to see such an improvement. See the “after photos” of all this effort below!
Bulky Freight & Other Internet Solutions
The UBox that we unloaded last Friday did not fit everything, so our daughter was faced with the dilemma of how to get her other things to Sacramento. On the internet she discovered Pac Mail and it was her solution…
Photos of the Sacramento Food Co-op
Yesterday we discovered the Sacramento Food Co-op near our daughter’s new home. What a wonderful place! When first we visited, I thought it was fun that she was wearing my old food co-op shirt from my college days when I was active in the early food movement.
Assembling IKEA Furniture
Above are the carts at IKEA! Last night after moving in, we bought five bookcases with extra shelves and a kitchen island/countertop/cart. It was a long day! Today we put them together…
Unloading the UBox
Our oldest daughter and I are back in Sacramento to move her into her apartment today. I woke up this morning thinking about…