Messy #2

Here's our office/art studio/napping spot/playroom. At this very moment there are two huge bins of laundry to fold awaiting me in here. Maybe I will tackle them tomorrow.

Notice the Christmas lights still up in the window? Yeah. I took those down finally on Saturday morning. The ones in the front room window are harder to reach, and are still on the to-do list.

But I got the dishes done today!

Messy Week, #1

Hah! I thought I'd share the house this once in its lived-in, toys-all-over, dishes-waiting-to-be-washed glory. This week is messy week, and hopefully tidying will happen here while you enjoy photos of the way I try not to let our home look. These were all taken 3/6/09.

Our bedroom, when we don't smooth the bed. Notice the piles of folded laundry ON the dresser, because obviously it was too hard to put them IN the dresser. Also that afternoon Roo had just collected the bath mats from both bathrooms and dumped them in a heap there next to Todd's side of the bed, between a stray engineering magazine and an upside down Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. Also notice in the background the hutch is covered in about 5 different knitting, quilting, and sewing projects that I pretend to find the time for mostly by neglecting my art projects. I am a bad artist.

Green, Day 6

One more shot, lucky bamboo:

It lives on our kitchen island, because otherwise the cats would reduce it to shreds and tatters. As they have our poor lemongrass plant. :(

Green, Day 5

Another sunny and warmish afternoon. A few more weeks of this and we'll have greening grass and budding trees! Roo wanted to be out on the deck again:

I also spotted some green popping up in her toy boxes:

We have friends coming to town tomorrow for a quick visit, and I'm very excited to see them again. Chocolate cake with mint chocolate chip ice cream is on the menu.

Green, Day 4

Today I saw:
two crows
three whitetail deer
a red-tailed hawk
a male cardinal
a black dog
our neighbors' black and white cat, Basil
the moon in the afternoon sky

I heard:
robins clucking
blue jays scolding

I made:
two quarts of yogurt
ginger cookies

It was 64 degrees out at 4pm.

Green glass float, probably originally from Japan via a Washington beach, from my grandparents' things.

Green, Day 3

We had an herb pot growing on the back deck last summer, and we brought it indoors to see if we could overwinter the rosemary and oregano and chives in our sunny window. Sure enough, we've had fresh herbs all winter, though they're getting a tad leggy by now.

That's the rosemary, getting excited about these longer days of sunlight.

I'm knitting Roo a spring sweater-vest-shirt thing. Using pink variegated yarn, but I think it's going to be okay.

I didn't actually notice this till just now, but my little 'sock' point protectors are green, too. How funny.

Green, Day 2

I'm making Fish on the Line for Roo, but I've been neglecting them for other knitting projects.

Maybe better get back on that if I want to finish by her birthday.

I've got one stuffed, two others knit, and I still have orange, red, pink, and purple to start...

Green Week, Day 1

shining egg is hosting a green week, and I'm playing along, again incognito. I'm also sick, sick, sick, sick, so maybe just pictures this week.

My cherished puzzle ball, saved for Roo.

Advanced Civilization

Today we were at our friends' home from 10am to 8pm playing a board game. I'm totally wiped out. I did not realize that: playing for 10 hours - lunch, snack, and dinner + watching Roo navigate 4 other kiddos for 10 hours without her nap = a serious strain on my concentration, endurance, and equanimity. Roo however, took the day like a champ. Such a trooper. Whew.

Here's an old picture, that I never got to post.

Earthy

Leaves and shadows,

and another big knitting project finished.

I've had this yarn in skeins for 10 years, and finally Todd will put it to daily use.

Pals

Roo spent a good hour running loops around the back deck yesterday in the sunshine, screaming happily, Ty pirouetting along the railing above her. Then for a brief moment they both settled down to scan the ravine (squirrels? birds? cookies?) before returning to more vigorous activities.

I think we're all looking forward to spring.

Sailing Away

Today, sunny and 50 degrees. Tomorrow, an ice storm, then a dusting of snow.

Infant Roo never slept well in the cradle, and oh! we tried, but now she loves to climb in and rock herself. I suggested that it was a boat a while back, and she immediately took to the idea; this afternoon she went for a row with her lamb, library books, and a tool kit (just in case?).

Then we played out on the back deck, but those pictures are coming tomorrow, when I am sure I will need a reminder of the sun!

Birds

On our walk today Roo and I saw a red-winged blackbird high in a tree, singing out over his territory. Later, when I was downstairs feeding the cats, I peered out the window and a robin flew out from the nest tucked up underneath the deck. Is it almost spring?

The afternoon sunshine is sticking around for longer. And we're a week and a half away from daylight savings time again.

Lazy

The photos I took today are still in the camera. And the camera is all the way across the room. So here's one that I took a few days ago and didn't get to post because of yellow week.

Ty and the lacy leaf shadows.

Right now I am eating a dish of mint chocolate chip ice cream. I just put Roo to bed, and now I am going to go knit. Good night!