sneeze.

photo by quinn.

Today I ventured outside. I haven't properly been outside in a few days, because every organ in my head hates pollen. My eyes itch, my nose itches, I sneeze, my nose runs, my eyes run, my throat itches! And then my brain tells me to run inside. :( But Zyrtec has helped a little... So today I tried it out. Still itchy, but I lasted longer than usual.

The day before yesterday I made a Lemon Chess Pie. As the recipe informed us, origin of the name is unknown! However, the pie was delicious...

Privet has bloomed. Did I mention that? Ugh. Allergies make me ashamed to be part of the human race which lives indoors for most of their lives. Surely we would have these reactions if we lived outdoors? We would be incapacitated for months! I should look it up and see what the facts are...

photo by quinn.

Next post I'm working on: Old family photos. I've been having so much fun scanning them in! I'm on 1986 right now... We were really cute kids. Of course, it'll be a few more days (weeks?) before I get to my baby pics. Anyway, I'm going to make a blog post of my favs. :) Then you'll know where our family got the photography genes from. Our parents took some really beautiful photos of us. 

Aja aja fighting!

- caroline

Note on what the heck I just said: I've noticed that in Korean dramas, people say "fighting" as a cheer, a replacement for "go [insert sport or name here]!"  "Aja aja fighting" is unique to the drama I just watched. :) Koreans are cool.

dusk

I was determined to take pictures at some point today, but first there was a boring breakfast, then a shower, then a trip to the library (but I drove, so no pics), and then homework and fashion shoot planning and re-planning. And lots of phone conversations and thinking things out with Mom. A boring lunch, and a REALLY delicious bowl of Fresh Apple Crisp with whipped cream -- I will post about this tomorrow!

Well, it wasn't until dusk that I was picture inspired. :) I love this time of year. The mix of dead plants with new plants, the mix of the golden setting sun and the cool colors. 

Quinn made a mustache for my computer. It started with making a mustache for his computer - his mustache is black and curled - I will make sure to take a picture tomorrow. :D He thought mine should be orange. It's appropriate. ^.^

DUDE. I am addicted to these honey roasted peanuts. When we watch at night, I can eat them and eat them. It's kind of a choice: Do I quilt or do I eat peanuts? Because I can't quilt AND eat them, they are so messy. ;)

The trip to the library was to get a copy of Jane Eyre. My last exam in British Lit is to write a three page essay on some question or another about a book. I had a few book options, one of which was Sense and Sensibility, but how can you not choose to prove that Rochester is an example of a Byronic hero?? He's like the PERFECT Byronic hero!

The only copy the library had was this tiny, tiny book with bible paper pages and that cool ink drawing on the front. Kind of cool.

Did you know that Charlotte Brontë wrote under the pen name "Currer Bell?" In fact, all three Brontë sister's used pen names, men's names, so that readers didn't know they were women. Charlotte was Currer Bell, Anne was Acton Bell, and Emily was Ellis Bell. In their time, women writing literature was so scorned that the easiest way to be published was to assume a man's name.

Good night! Going to go make a pumpkin pie. Might post pictures later tonight.

- caroline

P.S. Why is this song coming up on Coldplay radio??? Really love your peaches, wanna shake your treeeee. Ugh. It's only the catchiest line of innuendo. Ugh. Now it's just stuck in my head.

another beautiful day

The day started with pancakes. Which, being in charge of pouring the batter, I neglected to fully document. I even accidentally made a HUGE pancake - I blame it on weak wrists. :P I should have taken a picture, it was massive.

If Erin is reading this... Yes, that is algebra homework you see. *hides under a rock* I never inked in that last exam! Shame. My face is turning red. Anyway, it's all done now, so I can admit to it. I had to check it all, over and over, and I ended up learning about matrices all over again. Which, for solving systems of equations, turn out to be rather useful, if you don't mind all that a1b2c3+a2b1c3+a2... I imagine that it must feel so amazing to have a mind that can process numbers quickly. You'd feel so quick, so on top of everything.

The tiny cup on the right was made by yours truly! I never did take pictures of my pottery... I'm such a slacker. This is my teabag cup, it is terribly useful, which, when I made it, didn't seem possible. It came out of the kiln as this miniature purple thing, and I was thinking, what on earth am I going to do with this? But now I love it. :)

I don't know how it's possible for me to continue to take pictures of the yard. You'd think that after five or so years it would all get really old. But I love home, I love the yard and the barn and the coop and the house. And the tree and the swing and all of the ridiculous bits of trash that our insane neighbor hangs on the fence line to grunge up our view. It's so perfect. :) We need to get the porch furniture out again and enjoy the nine days of weather that we apparently have left.

All I have to say about the weather is that it had better be ridiculously gorgeous on March 6th. This fashion shoot is going to be amazing, and rain would really just put a damper on things. A damp damper. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about it.

Well, now I'm going to work out (on Day 6!) and read myself to sleep. Good night, whoever you are reading. Leave a comment, if you like. 

I'd like. ;)

the summery day before yesterday

These are some shots from the summery day before yesterday... Photo credit to Quinn on the pic above. :)



We have this amazing forsythia plant that is devouring the large cedar tree at the top of the yard. It is spilling down from the middle of the tree in cascades of yellow flowers. It's so pretty.

 

Picture on the right - opossum jaw bones. An opossum killed one of our chickens - Little Chick - a few months ago. Dad shot it and thew its body down in this little valley at the back of our yard. Me and Quinn were exploring and we found its jaw bones, vertebrae and hip bones. Pretty cool, really.

And to end with a sweet picture of Lucy.

Goodnight, readers! Tomorrow is supposed to be terribly windy and warm! I hope you do something fun with it.

windy

Today was really, really windy. A whipping wind, but it was such a warm sun - I wore a tank top. I even got a bit of a sunburn from lying around on our picnic blanket, basking. It was so lovely.

My camera hasn't been working for a few months - the shutter assembly was defective (according to Canon) - and I've only just had it back in my hands, in working order. I had forgotten how small the viewfinder and back screen are. Using this camera is like a mix between using film and digital - there is still quite a bit of mystery as to how your picture is going to look later, because all you can see of a preview is thumbnail-sized.

I love it, regardless.

I should probably mention that the picture above on the left is of a make-shift hammock. I've been making sheet hammocks since I was old enough to tie. Usually we made them on our Quadro, but we've been known to use trees with low branches and the frame of our large trampoline. I'm a bit too big for the trampoline frame now, so replacing our tree swing with a sheet hammock was my only option today. (There is a blanket inside to illustrate the shape - too windy without a weight!)

The grass is getting greener so rapidly. We can see the change each time we go for walks. For the most part, wild onions are making the color change, but there are also those little purple flowers and regular grass. Quinn even found a bright yellow dandelion.

Mom thought it would be fun if Henry and I went "exploring." He liked that idea, so we took the egg basket and found random objects around the yard. A chicken feather, a leaf, a pecan, a rock, and a dandelion. Eggs added later. :)

Now that Blogger has fixed up their post editor - pics can be enlarged with ONE click, not seventy-two changes to the HTML - I'm going to continue blogging regularly. I already have lots of pics that I want to post here. So, I'll be back tomorrow with at least one picture for you.