Friday, May 01, 2009

around the house

Well. It has been a while, hasn't it? I think unfortunately lately Facebook has been a quicker way to post photos and share what we've been up to. Here's a quick update:

West Elm must have heard my fervent requests: the pin-tuck duvet cover is now available in white!































This is just what I've been looking for. We also got a couple of etchings up on the wall, thanks to these.

A few weeks ago we started a little garden behind the house, just outside of the kitchen window:







If all goes well, we will have romaine lettuce, swiss chard, peppers, onions and cherry tomatoes. We also have plans to dig out an ugly rock garden nearby and start an herb garden, but that hasn't happened yet. For now I have basil, mint and cilantro in pots on our patio, with plans to start some lemongrass soon.
Another recent activity of ours is searching for morels growing near the base of our enormous ash tree. We haven't been brave enough to eat any yet but I put a few in the freezer.
Tonight we're picking up some carpet samples for the currently linoleum-covered bedroom. We couldn't bring ourselves to buy anything acrylic, so we're going with wool despite the extra $$$. I

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those morels look so phallic.

9:30 AM  
Blogger Amy said...

I know! Too funny

10:32 AM  

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