January 14, 2009

Snack of champions



It tasted good.

hee hee hee

On January 10 at 02:59:36 PM someone Googled "dynavent wall furnaces". . . and ended up here.

Most favorite object ever























This belongs to Greg.

Getting there...

Found, by Jem

Another artwork saved from destruction. I found this down the street on trash night.











































Way to go, Jem! Good work.

January 13, 2009

Reason to join Twitter

Finally: the blow-by-blow I have been looking for.

Beth, you know how to motivate me.

Wow!

This is a great blog!

I especially like The Happy Little Handsaw.



Thanks, Ron, for posting this on facebook!

Necklace for a squirrel lover



Greggy gave me this for Christmas. Acorns!!

January 12, 2009

Found: a giant tooth!

Greg picked this up from a rocky riverbank when we were in Quebec last summer, and he gave it me.







It obviously belonged to a plant eater. Greg thinks a moose or bovine (is bovine a noun?).

The tooth is stained with red a bit because I was playing tricks with it on Halloween:

"OH GOD!!" [hand to bloodied mouth]

"ACK!!" [spits blood into palm onto giant tooth hidden there]

"MY TOOTH!!" [displaying giant bloody tooth]

Dinner and Scrabble

I got dinner handed to me, then I got my ass handed to me.



Although Greg's victory depended on my admission of "depender" (curses!).

Mourning dove...

...on our fire escape.



I love their pretty blue eyeliner.

Thank you Kelly!

January 11, 2009

Beloved animal story

A fox named Star and the boy who hunts him.






I think Haunt Fox was my father's when he was a boy; I see it came from East Williston, New York. I recently reread it—and I still love it.

Beautiful winter tree

January 10, 2009

Getting a little exotic

Thirsty Turtle restaurant, Best Western Hotel, Richmond, British Columbia.



Dudes you really need to get out more. Chicken pot pie is not even a LITTLE exotic.

Items

Camera sock:


Greggy iPod cozy:

Don't get electrocuted!!



Looks painful.

This little birdie...



...tweets out soy sauce!

Alessi Lily Bird Soy Sauce Container by Stefano Giovannoni.

January 8, 2009

This looks like a frickin' awesome book!

Judging by its cover.

The other windowsill

I found this mug (a gift for Greg) in a "free" box:







Awesome.

Remember those herb seeds I found a while ago? I am trying to grow them. Nothing is happening:



And I picked up this piece of marble with metal fittings on a beach in Quebec:



It was some kind of switch, I think.

I like.

Christmas cactus

Smuggled into Brooklyn from Canada (I wrapped it in like five feet of toilet paper):



































Nice, right? A gift from Greg's brother Jim and his husband, Trevor.

I was going to crop this picture but then I decided I liked how you can just see the spines of the other cactus sticking into the image on the right.

January 7, 2009

Last night...

...I finished my new iPod holder.



Yay for Patons Canadiana knitting worsted!



UPDATE: I think I lost this! Sad. But now I get to make a new one!

Morning friend



Gimme.

Morning flowers in the kitchen are nice too.

January 6, 2009

Who is this...

...behind Greg's hair, on the left?



He is shaking hands with the owner of Olympia Restaurant on Denman Street in Vancouver. FAMOUS!

Victoria coffee shops

We were going to go here...



...but then we thought, what the hell—let's enjoy ourselves!

So we went down the street to this place:



'Twas very pleasurable.



(That stuff in the middle is phytoplankton, to cure our colds.)

January 4, 2009

Mexican squirrels

Our friend Claudine recently returned from Mexico with these pictures of the squirrels of that land:





Curious!

West coast squirrel

Greg and I came across this little guy at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. You can imagine how excited we were.



Between us we took like 75 pictures of it.

Enigma

Greg and I purchased this hand-embroidered tea towel at Value Village in Vancouver.



We do not understand it.

Saint Vincent de Paul

I found these placemats and napkins in his thrift shop in Vancouver:



Can anyone identify the double-P (or PD) logo?

We made it home!

The squirrel greeted us by eating a piece of bread on top of his nest:



Thanks buddy. We are glad to see you too.

Beach finds

Blue glass:



Sea dime:



Some nice stones, nicely arranged:



Piece of a super day-glo buoy:



Greg conquered this barrel:



It has barnacles and stuff on it!





Must have been in the sea for a while. I wonder what it contained. It's empty now.

Clear glass:



Driftwood for our wood collection:



An oyster shell!



Magnificent.