Archive for the ‘Samadhi’ Category

Sam is 14!

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

And Minecraft crazy, so I made him a Minecraft cake!

Sam bday 2012 003

I ’specially like how well the chocolate chip hooves turned out on the sheep.

Sam bday 2012 004

And it got a “Best birthday cake ever!” from the kids, so I’m happy. :)

Cult of Bread Almighty.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Slices of bread lying under the kitchen table: “…”

Sam, picking them up mournfully: “They don’t look too dirty, can’t we still eat them?”

Me: “They’ve been on the floor since you made your lunch LAST NIGHT. That’s just a *bit* too far past the two-second rule.”

Sam: “We could wash them.”

Me: “If you wash dirty bread, you don’t get clean bread, you get soggy dirt on soggy bread.”

Sam: “Can we put them on the altar?”

Me: “You offer the best of what you have on the altar, not bread that’s been on the floor all night.”

Sam: “They could have their own altar.”

Slices of bread: “Bow down, insignificant humans!”

Garden Elves!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

My awesome friends Julia and Stu, the Garden Elves, put in a fab new garden box for me down on the curbside strip.

garden-elves

(click to embiggen)

So excited! So healing to get my hands back in the rich, dark earth and plant pretty baby plants again! Sam got this excellent picture of me watering with sunlight. :)

Zanwaters

(click to enlarge)

Right after he went ninjawacky with the mallet. Mwahahaha!

samhammer

(click for extra ninjawacky biggness)

Watch out neighborhood!

Many grateful hugs to the garden elves for breaking sod for me and creating such a lovely garden for us.

More pics here.

Fall fire!

Monday, October 12th, 2009

I love it when the autumn temperatures drop and the trees blaze!

fallfire

More pics of flametrees(and bagelly silliness) on flickr.

Happy fall!!!

Steam cleaning-woohooooo!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

I must admit, I do love my new White Wave steam cleaner, it’s been one of the benefits(and a mighty weapon) in my battle against the bugs.

Sam loves it too(nothing like a tool that looks like a ray gun and shoots tons of steam to get my boy to help clean). :)

steamy

More steamy(literally) pics here.

Btw, we are out of the House of Doom! YAY!!

Still have a tent full of bagged stuff to freeze, but it sure feels good to be outta there!

Yay shiny clean car!

BOXES!!!

Monday, June 29th, 2009

boxes!

Yes, we’re moving. This week. Yay! :)

Whistlepig!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

My son’s school had a rockin’ fundraiser festival today-Whistlepig!

I painted cuffs on the fairgoers:

Sancuff

So much fun! And they kept me busy too, lining up for cuffs-I barely had time to sneak off and dancedancedance to the awesome tunes of 17th Chapter!

Pics.

Pole-vaulting mayhem!

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Sam and I go for a scramble in the mucky gulches down at Matthew’s Beach Park and then find the perfect pole-vaulting stick!

woot!

Obviously, mayhem ensues. :)

Flickr’d pics here.

WOOHOOO! New camera!!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

wiggy

Sam and I go wiggy over our new cameraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-new to us anyway. Bought it used, a Canon PowerShot A650 IS.. Great fun so far, though I’m definitely going to need to buy a new memory card-this one only takes 5 pictures at a time! Sheesh.

*happy new camera dance!*

Sam is eleven!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

We had an awesome dinner party at Cafe Vios to celebrate his eleveniness!

sam

Sam attempts to eat the cake in one fell gulp. :)

More pics here. And, here’s Rita’s flickr set, including my favorite shot:

hug

Aw. :)