We Eat Meat

Steak is not something we eat often. And it's not something I really enjoy *that* much. But this? This was good.
Thanks to Lance, we had a lovely dinner of deer steak!

Well, at least it tastes good?

My toothpaste claims it offers "protection against acid attack": one more for the list of things I never should have had to worry about.

Medieval

My new reason to giggle (thanks to Kristin D and my insanely geeky English Stained Glass book from the library):


We like to call it "Jesus gets His rap fingers out"

Horticultural Update

Our spider plant continues to grow! It's arm is now rather threatening, or it would be if it weren't all covered in flowers.
Also please note my rather sad -but evident!- attempt at fall decorating (I also have a couple of chestnuts, acorns and oak leaves) and our beautifully growing aloe plant.

More Leaves...

A Walk in the Park

From our weekend walk around Laurelhurst.

Learning is Habitual

I don't know if it comes from being taught at home growing up, having been an English/Art History major where books, even novels, are a student's primary source of learning/education/homework/etc, or simply from having this be my first year after about 18 out of my 25 years of life where Fall was not synonomus with "Back to school", but I find myself unable to keep myself from rabid reading these days.
In the last couple of weeks I've read ravenously. Some of the speed that has gone in to reading these books has come, in part, from the fact that they are not all exactly sitting in the stacks at the library waiting for me to request them to be drug up from the depths (as is usually the case). We've had some things on hold for weeks that finally came - and then I was stuck in a long, non-library book I wanted to finish, so the race was on: finish the non-library book fast enough to be able to read the others, and make sure to read the last ones really fast since Josh had to read them all first, too. Crazy.
So, the last few books were read as follows:
Inkspell, C. Funke
A Monstrous Regiment of Women, L. R. King
The Case of the Late Pig, M. Allingham
A Wind in the Willows, Grahame
Birthing the Elephant, Abarbanel and Freeman
The Unlikely Disciple, K. Roose

Fog!

[I suppose I should mention that usually I can see not only these buildings in their entirety, but also the river and downtown.]

Organization, or Lack Thereof

Sometimes at work one of the supervisors walks around with a cart of seasonally appropriate healthy snacks. I took my banana and nutragrain bar and hot cocoa to my desk, drank the cocoa, and bagged the snacks.
Turns out its a good thing I did as the single breakfast food in our house this morning was morning star patties. I love them, but usually in conjunction with at least some other food. No eggs, no bread products, no cereal, no yogurt.
It appears Josh and I have forgotten to grocery shop recently I guess. Maybe we should get on that.

Fall Skies

Hooray! More Leaves

One

Sunrise is the One redeeming factor to getting up early.