Wellllll....

Since I haven't been doing anything crafty (or otherwise), I have a hound picture for you.

He was a bit under the weather (he's feeling a lot better today), so we didn't go very far, but he seems to enjoy the bike. I know I don't miss him yanking me around while walking. :-) I think he'll like it even more once the temperatures start getting cooler.

I am surprised how much of a money pit a bicycle is these days - you need all kinds of doo-dads that I never needed when I was a kid. :-/ I'm heading to the bike shop tomorrow for another doo-dad (a fork mount, so I can put the bike in an upright position in the car instead of laying it down). I do love the bike trails in the Big City though - it's really nice not having to worry about being run down by the insane drivers around here. Now if I could just find someone to ride with - DH doesn't seem to be interested, since he has a motorcycle for his very own money pit.

Spin Club is this week so I'll actually be doing some crafty this week - yay!

Gah!

One of my very least favorite things is to get a haircut, as it takes me forever to get used to it and by then it needs to be cut again. Even less favorite is getting new glasses, since they never seem quite right no matter who I go to.

Today I did both. The good thing is - I won't be able to see my hair for awhile! :-D Unfortunately, one lens of my glasses doesn't seem to be lining up with where my eye wants to look. The optician claims that my previous glasses were wrong, and my eye will adjust to the new ones. We'll see (I hope).


On the lighter side, though no crafty stuff was done again this week (other than looking through my new books from Interweave Press' Hurt Book sale), I did get kudos for making this (we were so full from everything else we just couldn't eat it all):

This was my first attempt at making blackberry cobbler, as DH usually eats them all on the way back into the house since I don't like blackberries, and it turned out really well. I even liked it, though it was a bit sweet for my taste. DH has asked me to make another, since we appear to have a large crop of blackberries this year and we left the leftover cobbler at my parents'. I may try to freeze the berry part of the cobbler as well, as I think we'll have enough for at least two double-recipe cobblers, and see how that works.

Mmmm... warm blackberry cobbler on a snowy day in the middle of winter. Doesn't that sound GOOD?

Another lazy week...

and I have nothing to show you. And probably nothing next week either. I think we both have a case of the summer doldrums.

No progress on the living room re-do either. :-/ I'm still struggling with how to do the ceiling/wall transition - I had an idea that would actually make the ceiling look higher, but I'm concerned about the big opening into the kitchen/dining area. As you can see here, there is no beam on the ceiling separating the living room and kitchen areas;

(this is a 'before' picture)

and the wall separating the kitchen and the living room pretty much bisects the opposite opening into the hallway, so it's become a bit of a dilemma. What I have in mind is more for a square room with regular-sized doorways and beams across the tops of the doorways. I should have submitted our living room for that new HGTV show where the show hosts compete against each other! LOL