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California Friday: a glowing sunset
One of the things I miss about Hawaii is the sky. There were rainbows everywhere and the sunsets were always spectacular, as long as I didn’t go out to the beach specifically to watch one. Then it was always cloudy and weird on the horizon. But a few nights ago I caught a really gorgeous…
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Throwback Thursday: Kindergarten, or everything I need to know…
This week’s Throwback takes us to 1988 (or possibly early 1989) when I was in Kindergarten and my sister was still half my height. She’s a bit taller now. Anyway, I chose this photo for a similar reason to the living room photo. It’s just a candid of us doing something (I’m not even really…
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Beachy Brunch
Yesterday I went to brunch with some friends up in Cardiff. We sat outside on the patio (which was an upper level) and got to have a fantastic view of the beach while we had eggs benedict and fruit and such. It was nice to sit and chat and have a (very late) breakfast and…
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Saturday Caturday: Leena approves of the porch furniture
She is enjoying BIRD WATCHING (since I don’t allow any of her preferred passtimes of BIRD CATCHING and BIRD MANGLING) in this picture. She’s always been the more adventurous of the two kitties (Caspian is sitting on the other side of the sliding door where he can “safely” watch the outside without having to, y’know,…
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Container garden: refreshed!
This weekend, I made a project of refreshing my container garden on the back porch. My annuals had either started to die or just looked kind of bad, except for a couple here and there. I combined those remaining petunias and snap dragons into one pot (the one kind of in the middle, wide and…
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Saturday Caturday: unicorn-cats… unicats?
Recently I picked up a product that I’d only seen online but found in a random little shop I was exploring… Inflatable unicorn horn FOR CATS. Because who doesn’t want a pet unicorn? The horn had to be duct-taped twice, once for each cat to wear, because each one figured out how to hook a…
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Throwback Thursday: a day at the beach in 1984
This photo is from June, 1984. Thanks, handy Sharpie marking at the top! While I don’t have any specific memories from this particular photo, I would like to point out my mom’s adorable blue bathing suit (which looks like some current styles I’ve seen, actually) and my dad’s short-shorts as proof that this is absolutely…
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Cupcakes for One: revisited!
So if you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I made a batch of cupcakes and then froze (almost) all of them to see how well they’d hold up in long-term storage, as such. I remember our frozen wedding cake being extremely edible (though all of the frosting shlumped off like a wet towel… which…
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An evening with Extraordinary Desserts
The other night, a friend and I decided to try a new-to-us place called Extraordinary Desserts. The location we visited is only about a mile and a half from my house, and it was incredible. This is the same-day cake counter. They do wedding cakes and catering and the like, but they also have a…
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Saturday Caturday: loving the camera?
So, Leena is apparently into my camera the way Caspian is into shoes. See? What Caspian does with my shoes, Leena has started doing with my camera. I first noticed it when I was sitting here writing for a previous day’s post, and I kept hearing a scraping noise behind me. It didn’t sound terribly…
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