Swimmy And Waggly and Fin And...

Pets in the house! Pets in the house!

For Darcy's birthday, Michael bought all the components of a small aquarium. We're not going back to the craziness of the marine tank (I only wish! I miss my live rock dancing worms!), just to some tropical freshwater cuties. Of course, the tank had to sit around "cycling" all week long before fish were allowed to enter, but today, we headed to Oregon to a couple of small fish shops to buy the livestock. Really. That's what the creatures that live in fish tanks are called in the biz.

Michael didn't want to overload the tank all at once, so we brought home five cardinal tetras. And a piece of driftwood. And three fake plants. And some fish flakes. The fish seem to have made it home in one piece, although they're not looking too lively right now. We're letting them have a relatively stress-free night and we'll hope that they're all very happy and schooling around in the morning.

Darcy has started to name them. I voted for the same name for all five, being that they're basically identical, but Darcy has other ideas. That one is Swimmy. That other one is Waggly. There's Fin. And I think the other two are waiting for inspiration.

Consider us petted.

Aaarrghh! Does November Never End???

Ok. It's not that I don't like digging through our photo archives for cute pictures of Darcy that you've never seen before. I do. I promise that I really love doing that for you. And I know that really, I've just barely made up for a summer of seriously limited blogging. But won't this month ever end?

I finish my part of putting Darcy to bed and I think it's time to relax, but no! I have to blog! I have to find some pictures or think of a story to tell you or beg forgiveness for a lame post.

I'm ready for NaBloPoMo to be over!!

Luckily, it will be over in just a few more days. Enjoy the daily posts while you still got 'em!

I'm Thankful For...

...the sweetest rainbow girl in the world...

...my dear husband who did yardwork all morning...

...and the view from my kitchen window. Redwoods, ferns, and sunshine!

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

So I'm starting to figure out a cooking schedule for tomorrow. We're having a grain-meat roast (I love their sausages, so I'm very excited to try the roast), stuffing, creamed spinach, salad, roasted potatoes, and cran sauce. Darcy came home from preschool today and announced that she had pumpkin pie for snack and loved it and wants one for dessert tomorrow. So now I'll be making a pumpkin pie -- my first, because I don't love it. I had planned to make a lovely cranberry/apple crisp with organic, local cranberries I bought at the Arcata Market and apples from our tree. I might still make that. It depends.

Oh, and I have a loaf of no-knead bread rising now.

What are YOU making or eating? Comments?

The Cutest Guitar (From The Archives)

Ok, so you might not be able to sit around a campfire playing songs on her (although she loves to sing around a campfire), but she is definitely one of the cutest things ever found in a guitar case.

Rain! Rain! Rain! And snow?

I finished work today and almost didn't want to leave because the rain was beyond pouring down. I did leave, of course, and got quite wet. I was proud of myself because I went to the store even though I wanted to just settle for dinner from ingredients already at home. It's time now to get into the "rain-can't-stop-me" mode. It's a difficult mode of thought for me to enter. I spent a fair amount of time this evening looking for a new raincoat online.

The weather witches are claiming that it might actually SNOW here early tomorrow morning. I don't really buy it, but I'll be watching.













Please note: When you live in a place like Crescent City that has such extreme weather in terms of precipitation, you get to post about the weather any old time you want. My blog, my rules.

Birthday Party!

Waiting for guests. Not entirely patiently.

Dolls! Big dolls! There is excitement!