Sunday afternoon while the dancers met in our worship room to practice for the wedding I practiced my picture taking.
Friday, April 8, 2011
practice practice
Sunday afternoon while the dancers met in our worship room to practice for the wedding I practiced my picture taking.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
pillow pets
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
the morning after...
The kitchen counter, piled high with dirty dishes, was the reminder I encountered upon rising this morning....a reminder of how blessed we are with friends and food and fellowship...and a very full life together.
What a wild and crazy day!
It started out with a trip into the city with Lura to a discount fabric store to purchase supplies for decorating at the wedding. Thirty two silk flowers, 4 purple turkey feathers, 3 bolts of cloth, 2 rolls of ribbon, 1 spool of thread, and innumerable decisions later we were headed back to AJ feeling like very successful shoppers.
The clock was already into the afternoon hours, the time I had planned on making the birthday dinner, when we rolled into town. About a mile from home I got a call from our friends who live up the mountain. They were in the valley running errands and looking for a cool place to eat their lunch. They arrived at our house shortly after I did and the plans for the birthday dinner expanded from 5 to 7.
As they ate lunch, I unloaded the dishwasher then we all headed out the door, Rob and Sue to run more errands and me to grab the remaining ingredients needed for the cake. By the time I arrived home, just in time to start the rice cooking, Jay was home. He headed to the backyard to work on the raised beds he is making in the greenhouse. After setting the rice to cook, I thew the remaining ingredients in the cake batter and put it in the oven to bake then started on browning the chicken and putting together the stew. Once the stew was on the stove I started on the broiled cake frosting for the coconut cake, all the while adding to a stack of dirty pans and bowls accumulating in the kitchen sink.
Our guests arrived just in time to help with final preparations. While Sue started cleaning up some of dishes overflowing in the sink, Lura cut oranges, strawberries, bananas, and grapes and I set the table and added bowls of peanuts, coconut, and Craisins to the condiment selection.
The stew and cake, along with the green salad, Rosemary Olive bread and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream provided by our guest was a feast fit for an African king.
Our merrymaking was cut short by our impending departure time and we blessed our guests and sent them on their way long before any of us ran out of words. We threw food in the fridge and left the counter piled with dirty dishes then headed out of the house for my second trip into Phoenix that day. Jay wanted to attend a Rosh Khodesh (new moon) service with our friends Pam and Joseph. While we dove Jay tried, unsuccessfully, to call his twin sister and wish her a happy birthday. We would have almost been on time for the 7 PM service if we hadn't hit a traffic back up. As it was, we arrived about 15 minutes late, missing the major portion of the teaching Pam was sharing but in time to join the worship. After the service we headed to Pam and Joseph's house to spend some time visiting with them. It was 11:30 by the time we left and I agreed to drive home giving Jay a head start on getting some sleep since he had todrive to Tucson in the morning.
12:30 AM. We fall into bed, tired to our toes, but stuffed full of blessings.
What a wild and crazy day!
It started out with a trip into the city with Lura to a discount fabric store to purchase supplies for decorating at the wedding. Thirty two silk flowers, 4 purple turkey feathers, 3 bolts of cloth, 2 rolls of ribbon, 1 spool of thread, and innumerable decisions later we were headed back to AJ feeling like very successful shoppers.
The clock was already into the afternoon hours, the time I had planned on making the birthday dinner, when we rolled into town. About a mile from home I got a call from our friends who live up the mountain. They were in the valley running errands and looking for a cool place to eat their lunch. They arrived at our house shortly after I did and the plans for the birthday dinner expanded from 5 to 7.
As they ate lunch, I unloaded the dishwasher then we all headed out the door, Rob and Sue to run more errands and me to grab the remaining ingredients needed for the cake. By the time I arrived home, just in time to start the rice cooking, Jay was home. He headed to the backyard to work on the raised beds he is making in the greenhouse. After setting the rice to cook, I thew the remaining ingredients in the cake batter and put it in the oven to bake then started on browning the chicken and putting together the stew. Once the stew was on the stove I started on the broiled cake frosting for the coconut cake, all the while adding to a stack of dirty pans and bowls accumulating in the kitchen sink.
Our guests arrived just in time to help with final preparations. While Sue started cleaning up some of dishes overflowing in the sink, Lura cut oranges, strawberries, bananas, and grapes and I set the table and added bowls of peanuts, coconut, and Craisins to the condiment selection.
The stew and cake, along with the green salad, Rosemary Olive bread and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream provided by our guest was a feast fit for an African king.
Our merrymaking was cut short by our impending departure time and we blessed our guests and sent them on their way long before any of us ran out of words. We threw food in the fridge and left the counter piled with dirty dishes then headed out of the house for my second trip into Phoenix that day. Jay wanted to attend a Rosh Khodesh (new moon) service with our friends Pam and Joseph. While we dove Jay tried, unsuccessfully, to call his twin sister and wish her a happy birthday. We would have almost been on time for the 7 PM service if we hadn't hit a traffic back up. As it was, we arrived about 15 minutes late, missing the major portion of the teaching Pam was sharing but in time to join the worship. After the service we headed to Pam and Joseph's house to spend some time visiting with them. It was 11:30 by the time we left and I agreed to drive home giving Jay a head start on getting some sleep since he had todrive to Tucson in the morning.12:30 AM. We fall into bed, tired to our toes, but stuffed full of blessings.
Monday, April 4, 2011
birthday boy
Today is Jay's birthday.Sunday, April 3, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
orange preserves
Along with the box loaded with juicy little oranges that Jay brought home last week was a handful of "ornamental" oranges. When we discovered these I decided I would slice them and leave them outside my kitchen window with the hope that they would lure the hummingbirds that frequent the Rosemary on the East side of the house to my more frequently viewed West side view.
As they have baked in the ever-more-summer-feeling sunshine I haven't observed any winged visitors but I did note their interesting change into a sticky candy-like substance worthy of their own mini photo session.
And that's the West of the story.
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