Organic Goodness

We got our first home delivery of organic produce today:

Its from Pioneer Organics, a home delivery service Jenn and Rob told us about. Its great - not only do they deliver, but the produce is great. Josh swears that the apple he had (a braeburn) was the best he's ever had, and the basil smells absolutely scrumpcious. This almost makes me want to eat my vegetables (but lima beans are on the definte don't-deliver list). Goodness, we recycle, buy organic vegetables, next thing you know, we'll be chaining ourselves to trees in the Columbia National Gorge! I guess after almost 10 years, I'm finally turning into an Oregonian, or even better (or is that worse), a Portlandian.

Southern Spice is Comin' to Town

Today has been a very, very, VERY long day, and is shaping up to be a long night at the office. But there is some very good news: Erica gets to come visit in August. As she said in her email, YIPEEEEE!!

Ta Da!!!!

Thanks to Josh's most excellent HTML skills - we have randomly generated Melo pictures back for your viewing pleasure!! Be sure to click the refresh button, since there's about 100 little melos to look at now! Okay, back to work for me, but at least I can check on melo (my current favorite is the Andy Warhol rendering in black and white - ahh, the wonders of PhotoShop).

Pictures as promised

As promised, here's some pictures of (no, not the couch since we did not have time to straighten up after dinner) the front to show the progress from almost a year to the day. First, the before picture of the area by the fire hydrant where Josh replanted some sorry-looking lavenders we had that were in desperate need of getting in the ground:

Pretty sad looking little lavenders!




The master planter


Well, Josh was right - they did make it:




Here's the latest knitting works on the needles. The bag before and after felting:






Viola!


And the flower from the KnitWhit Flower Kit from Lani (after a 2nd round of felting):

Is it really Sunday night already?

Dang, weekends go too fast. A short visit with Greg, Lani and Brandon on their way back to Seattle, a quick trip to the Portland Farmer's Market and Max & Hilde's Nursery to pick up some trumpet flowers and hops, and Sunday night with Jenn, Rob and Jack and Josh's burger bar - all fun and too short. So much for getting any real work done this weekend, but at least I finished our Florida trip photo book and the little lime green llama yarn bag, and refelted the KnitWhits flower and my own pattern purse. Now its time to get working on finishing up the roses for the purse. I guess in retrospect, I should be writing down the patterns I've made up, but they are mainly variations on patterns I like but have to monkey with because I don't have the exact same yarn in the stash or right needle sizes. All right, I guess I better check my calender to see what horrors work has in store for tomorrow . . .