139/365 Thursday, 05/19/2011

Sometimes when I plan out our weekly menus I get overly ambitious... such was the case on this day, when I started and Bill continued making falafel. They just didn't turn out quite right--the consistency and the spices. To be honest I think falafel will be something I seek out at a restaurant instead of making myself...but I was proud of my dicing skills and thought they should be documented...

134/365 Saturday, 05/14/2011

Another day on which not a lot of pictures were taken...And so this one of Sophie underneath the butterfly shower curtain will have to suffice.

133/365 Friday 05/13/2011

Bill took out all the second glass panes in our second story windows and replaced them with screens. Our windows are old and need to be replaced but so far we haven't done that yet....(this one reason why I think we are doing ok money-wise-we tend to take a long time before we actually spend it...at least on bigger things...).

Mieze--our cat who is obsessed with looking out windows especially enjoys sitting "in" the window and looking out of the screen. 

18/365 Tuesday, 01/18/2011

A simple nice and super easy meal: a portion of one of those frozen meals from Trader Joe's with some added mushrooms and one fried egg hiding there underneath. Yummy quick and easy!

Tuesday, 01/11/2011

Good old-fashioned comics! It is a ritual I cannot do without. However much is on my mind reading the daily newspaper (The BattleCreek Enquirer) is a must. Especially the comics. I don't read all the ones on the page but I do read some. Who doesn't like Crankshaft !?! I'm surprised how much I like Luann, Zits even the sometimes soppy Mutts --the above one is a good example. Just makes you want to say awwww....

The paper itself is ok--some of the editorials drive me crazy, but you do get an idea of what's going on in our county.

Monday, 01/10/2011

This is a picture of our rather under-used dining room. I hold my weekly German lesson here, and it is also where my friend and I sit when we meet for our "research coterie"---but I'm sorry to say that we have fallen into the habit of eating while we watch our shows on dvd (or now, since we just bought one, roku)--I think it originally was a way of saving time--(to have some downtime while doing something one has to do, i.e. eat!)--but we are both now very used to doing it, which means our dining room is not used as much as it could be. And yes there is an elliptical exercise machine over there on the left that also could be used more. (We do use it but not as much as we should!)

9/365 Sunday, 01/09/2011

Yes another Mieze shot...I'll try and space them out, but on many a day she'll be my most interesting subject. On this day she was being a furry book-weight on top of my
"Everything notebook" and Moleskine Calender. Yes I have a mild notebook-fetish. The "Everything notebook was purchased at the KaDeWe when were there over last New Year's. It's a "Leuchtturm1917" --read about it here: Leuchtturm

5/365 Wednesday, 01/05/2011

While I was watching West Wing I become engrossed in taking pictures of this paper-weight. This is the image I chose to represent the day. I had originally wanted to post a picture of wintry Albion, but I went with this one instead.