Father's Day and cutthroat Croquet

Yesterday we celebrated our dads with barbecue and a lazy day in the backyard. My Dad, my brother in law's Dad and my brother in law were our guests of honor and the day was just a lot of fun.

Now that the sod is set, we pulled out the croquet set my Mom had when she was in high school.

On the hunt

I have been trying to find and master the perfect oregano-lemon chicken marinade. I've got an oregano plant in the herb garden that is growing like crazy and a lemon tree that always has lemons waiting for me to use them, sometimes I can't use them fast enough.

I was happy to stumble across this recipe from Chow via Saveur and I tried it out earlier this week.

My Sunday at the County Fair

*tap,tap,tap* This thing on?

Sibilance, sibilance.

Poor little ignored, dusty blog. I never meant to abandon it quite as throughly as I did last year. School got the best of me, it took most of me really. My garden went to the birds, the kitchen was used only here and there. The husband and I ate out, far more then I ever want to admit.

But, I am back.

And I am a midwife.

Well, almost. I still need to take my national certification boards, but according to the diploma that should be on it's way to me, I am a graduate of my local university's CNM/WHNP program as of May 21.

Had a fabulous graduation bbq, which was full of recipes worth repeating, I am sure they will reappear here.

Not dead...yet.

I just wanted to post and say I am still alive, I am still wanting to update here, I just haven't had a lot of time. Not much time to cook, no time to post. We've been eating out an awful lot over here, hopefully things will settle down enough that I can get the Crock Pot going again and get some recipes posted.

I can say this, I am up to 13 babies born into my hands! School is very exciting and the thing that is consuming all my time right now.

I will return though, promise!

Back in business

I am so very happy to report that my camera is back in my possession. I am tickled pink! I am able to take lovely macro photos again. I am a happy camper.


I also have a metric ton of tomatoes. Or so it seems at times. Whenever I am out in the garden I bring in at least a few pounds of tomatoes off the vines...and those are just the Early Girls! My Mortgage Lifter tomatoes are just coming in and the Sweet Pea and mystery tomato from my mom is blooming now. I should have even more tomatoes soon. I am off from work and clinic on Friday, so I will find a way to use that plethora you see above and post it here.

More paint

We hit Lowe's up last night for a few house things including more paint samples. I was able to get some swatches up last night before bed and here is how they look today.




This is our master bathroom, I liked the blue last night, today, I am not so sure, it might be too icy. Especially next to the blue we chose for our bedroom.



We love this blue, here it is next to our bedroom set and the light on our nightstand. Of course it is currently under the lovely incandescent light in our room, but I think it looks nice under that anyway. I am not sure about the flow of this blue into the bathroom though.


Here we have the chocolate cherry we chose for the pool room/dining room next to a beige-y color we wanted to try out with it. We are very happy with the two colors together, and the beige
will run through the general areas of the house as well, including the entry way and the hallway leading to the bedrooms.


Here it is again in the hall, not too much natural light here and it still has a nice hue to it.




And lastly, the kitchen. This is a yellow I loved at the store and am now not so enamored with it. I think it is too bright, I even put up the beige next to it to see how I felt about the two together and I still am not sold on it.
We are closer to pain color choices, but not quite there yet, unfortunately.