Life of a Single Married Lady

It's been three months; can any of you guess how devoted a diarist I was as a child? (Answer: not very.) Since it is Friday and I'm tired, I'll just give you a series of pictures that describe the past few months. I hope you are all all healthy and surviving isolation! Keep your spirits up because someone (me and probably lots of other people too) loves you. Also, make this soup . Hello! From me! I'm very proud of my curly hair! Thanks Dad, Mom, Wil, and The Sow's Ear for this lovely sheepy birthday present! Perhaps my most exciting outing - a piano concert that ended up candlelit because of an electrical failure. It was wonderful. Because who doesn't want to see this cutie? Catching a colorful sunrise one morning. I thought it would a good experiment to make my own sauerkraut. I have now realized that I don't know what good sauerkraut even tastes like so it's coming home with my at Thanksgiving to be judged by the experts. This year's first frost, a

Happy July (almost August)! I can't believe we've been in Madison for 4 months already. I've got real work now, not just training, and it seems to be going well. The biological scientists of the world are doing even better, as evidenced by the great news coming out about vaccine trials. In the meantime, I'll remind you all to wear masks when out in public, wash your hands and avoid touching your face, and socialize responsibly. Those are pretty easy actions to take when you remember that, by doing them, you're expressing a great respect for life, both yours and those around you. Keep up the great work! We haven't been doing much because...pandemic. Wil took a road trip to visit his family in Missouri, and we've been spending a lot of time outside to stave off cabin fever. Luckily there's a state trail right behind our apartment, and we're on the outskirts of the Madison area so it's easy to get out. Appreciate this lovely picture. I sacrificed a

It's been a while! I hope you are all healthy and safe. Even with restrictions lifting, please stay cautious - wear a mask, wash your hands, try not to touch your face, and remember that your actions affect everyone around you too. What have you been doing in quarantine? I've been working from home and going through a lot of training, but I do try to decompress. We've been taking Kaiser on so, so many long walks, and it is so lovely to be outside, no matter the weather. Nearby part with connections to the Ice Age Trail Military Ridge state trail that backs up to our apartment Walking the trails around Epic Again on the trails around Epic Besides cooking, the only other thing I've really been doing regularly is crafting, and excitingly, it's been finishing  projects! So here's a combination of long-overdue finally finished things and other things in progress. Working on a scrappy granny blanket Completed Talida stole with a luxuri

With a mixture of elated "we no longer have to deal with this house" and very sad "I'll miss its charm and tall ceilings and so many cabinets" feelings, I announce that our house is for sale. Wil and I spent a lot of time clearing out things we don't need, packing some stuff we won't need immediately, and deep cleaning to prepare for realtor pictures today. The listing should be up tomorrow and we have open houses this weekend. I really hope it all goes well. We did a couple things in the past week specifically. Bella Rae Painting came to cover up the patched holes from the insulation installation, and everything looks fantastic  now. I also caulked my first tub, and I think I did a pretty good job! If you've somehow missed my previous rants about our house, just know that it was a flip and the flippers did work that was adequate at best. As I was scraping away all the old caulk that started to mold almost immediately after we moved in, I noticed a

Happy February! It's always a good February when you get a whole extra day. Wil and I are spending our extra-long month preparing the house for sale in the hopes that it will go quickly and we can move to Madison with little fuss. More on that later. But first - crafts! My favorite indie dyer, Expression Fiber Arts , announced a year-long tea-inspired yarn collection! Once a month she comes up with a new color, and all the colors for the year will coordinate in some way. I'm selling a lot of the yarn that I'm not sure I'll ever use in order to justify buying many of this year's tea yarns. I know the picture is nice, but it doesn't do the real thing justice. My dream is to make a big sweater and a big shawl out of these beauties. This is a close-up of Keri's wedding shawl ( Lyrata ). It's coming along; I'm nearing the end. I can't wait to see what it looks like all blocked out. For a while now I've wanted to make a sweater