PPP

Potential Pita Power


Put a little work into it, and you get Pitas Realized.

This time around I used the recipe from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.

A Shift in the Craft Space Continuum!

For Christmas, we decided to gift each other with a new sewing machine! The boy wants to make things for his Jeep, mountain biking gear, and other things that are kind of burly, so after a lot of research, we picked out our newest addition. All I really want out of this are nicely hemmed pants, preferably with me not doing the hemming. Oh, and some nice dog collars.

So here it is, folks, the boy's first FO!

See the concentration?


Who will win? The boy or the sewing machine?

Woot! His first FO! It is either going to be a dish towel for us, or a burp cloth for a newly preggo friend.

I'll have to take a picture of how nice the edges are sometime. He's a natural.

I had an inward chuckle moment yesterday when he started listing all the gifts he wanted to make for people and all of the stuff he wanted to make for Jeep/him/house. Why was I chuckling? Because, coming from someone hopelessly addicted to knitting, I sensed the beginning of a sewing addiction. (Again, if I get hemmed pants out of this, this is perfectly OK with me!)

Anasazi Beans

They look like cows. I am not sure how I am going to cook them, but
they are getting soaked now for tonight's dinner.

Welcome to California

Brrrrrr! These palm trees are out of their ideal environment, and so
am I.

Still waiting for a thought?

Or perhaps he is contemplating how nice it is for the whole family to
be crated together.

My nose disagrees! Gack!

Joshua Tree

Quick, cue the U2 CD!

I think this officially qualifies as the middle of nowhere.

Proof I was there

That last picture could have been taken anywhere, so here's the
benchmark as proof. I would have stuck my head there, too, but things
were a bit precarios up there. That was by far the most technical hike
I have done because I actually used my mad rock climbing skillz!

And this is me at the top!

It was a great way to celebrate the first day of the new year!

This is what I climbed today

Reaching the top of Castle Dome was an all day affair. This picture
was taken on the trail.

Jessie

She is our guest dog for the day. Jessie lives in all over the USA
since she is an avid RVer. She peed on Mingus's head twice. I was told
that means she likes him a lot.