How I wish I could have been at this yard sale!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/?hpt=Sbin
A fellow found two boxes of me 6.5 x 8.5 inch glass plate negatives of Yosemite & San Fransisco taken by Ansel Adams!
He bought them for $45, worth 200 Million.
Because this….
Can turn into this….
In seconds!
Thanks Retro Camera App!
Scored this little guy at our local thrift shop.
Happy Monday!
Inspired by Soule Mama…
A weekly post capturing a single moment from our wild life, to savor.
The dirtiest kid in Yosemite!
And today is also my 100th post! WOW!
I started this blog just under a year ago, with this post and the same rings true now.
To thank you all for sharing with me this past year, I’m going to have my first giveaway! Comment on this post and you can win your very own BogleFace Monster Zip Bag! I will close comments and announce the winner on next Friday 7/23/10 at 8:00am PST Good luck!
It’s shelling time!
It also appears that I didn’t plant enough peas this year, because I’m already hungry for more!
I love peas!
Life. It’s been busy! Sadly this blog has not been as busy, I’m hoping to change that!
Schools out (WOOHOO!) and I passed my Biology class and lab with flying colors!
Work has been back to back to back busy, with the start of summer term, multiple working retreats and more, now I am praying for some catch up and recovery time.
Our little toddler is quite the busy bee, in this past month, she visited Crater Lake for her 3rd time! Watched her Uncle John receive his MASTERS DEGREE! And has continued the “word explosion”, she will happily tell you her favorite color is yellow (or nana, depending on her mood), and she will always say “no” when asked if she would like to use the potty.
Hope all is well with you & yours, and wishing you a fabulous summer! We are off this weekend to Point Reyes National Seashore in California to camp, explore and visit my best friend her 19 month old toddler (yes, same age as Etta!) and 7 year old daughter!
If your ready to enjoy a good laugh, read this blog Suburban Snapshots, top 10 reasons why having a toddler is like a being at a frat party.
Adios!
So, I have a horrible truth to be shared.
I’m almost 30 years old, and until today have never made my own pizza dough. Weird, eh?
I don’t know how, it wasn’t intentional, I love pizza. We buy local whole wheat pizza crusts and make pizza weekly, it’s just so much fun. I’m new to Active-Dry yeast, and maybe that has something to do with the lack of pizza dough in my life (for heaven’s sakes, I even worked in a take-and-bake pizza place my first year of college (mysteriously, I never had to make the dough)).
Well, today was a new day, and started out like any other weekend morning, a small child climbing over me and trying to put my glasses on at 7:30am. So much for sleeping in. Around 4pm inspiration struck, can you guess, yes, pizza.
I whipped out a couple classic cookbooks “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone” and “Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza and Calazone” compared and contrasted their recipes… and started foaming my yeast!
Three little pizzas sounded like a good idea (since there are three of us), so after mixing my dough and letting it rise and then rest, I cut up my big ball of dough… and rolled these babies together.
I stretched them out, then put them down on a polenta and flour covered pan.
Toppings were prepared!
The first two in the oven were BBQ Chicken and BBQ w/out chicken pizzas!
Then the Mediterraneanish pizza with sun dried tomatoes, blue cheese, arugula (thanks Rene!) and artichoke hearts.
Wowsers… they were good!
It was so much easier than I though! I might start a weekly pizza ritual… although I also said that about making cheese, and have yet to make another batch!
To Great Grandmother’s house we go!
We had a delightful weekend (the weekend before last) in Penn Valley California, visiting Etta’s Great Grandma! I brought my camera, but alas, no pictures were taken by me, thankfully Papa had his camera!
We watered plants…
Played at new parks…
A good time was had by all!
If only we could visit Great Grandma’s house every weekend!!!
There is nothing like cooking with kids!
I just love it!
So, as you might imagine, I’ve been waiting patiently till Etta is “old enough” to start helping in the kitchen. She’s good at putting away dishes (not really, but it’s amusing), taking out the trash (okay not really either, but she thinks she’s helping), but a couple of weeks ago she actually started helping make the salad (well, dry the salad).
We documented with a little video for your viewing pleasure.
