Well, it's the last day of February. It's been a relatively cold and snowy month. After the excitement of the trip, it's been nice to get back tot he rhythms of regular life. We have adjusted ourselves back to getting excited about simple things.
February was also Valentine's day, of course. We celebrated with some roses and a fantastic chocolate bundt cake. I'll let you guess who bought the roses and who made the cake. If it's any kind of hint, the cake was delicious!
I spent much of my February free time building a cabinet for Emily. It goes next to the piano and gives her a place to keep her sheet music and books. I was going for a simple/retro look. I think I did a pretty good job of capturing that. But I'll let you be the judge:
We've also had a fair amount of snow this month. It's been a little warmer lately, but no less snowy. So we took the opportunity to prune our fruit trees and grapevines. Our Karl's Favorite pear continues to play the role of curly willow. It's a pretty convincing ruse if you ask me. No matter what we do, we can't get him to grow straight branches, so we're just going with the flow. He's a healthy tree, and hopefully he'll bloom this year so it can pollinate the hardy pear and we can get more than a single pear.
Emily has been planning all her gardening work for the summer. But summer doesn't begin the produce season for us. No, we have already harvested our firstfruits of the year. That's right, we picked our kumquats. These beauties were a gift from our great Sister-in-Law, Courtney. We nurtured and cared for the tree all summer, even taking it outside when it was in bloom so the bees could pollinate it. The bees loved it, and they did their job. We got two rather large kumquats from the tree. We each took one, and ate them. They were delicious! Also very very sour.
February was also Valentine's day, of course. We celebrated with some roses and a fantastic chocolate bundt cake. I'll let you guess who bought the roses and who made the cake. If it's any kind of hint, the cake was delicious!
I spent much of my February free time building a cabinet for Emily. It goes next to the piano and gives her a place to keep her sheet music and books. I was going for a simple/retro look. I think I did a pretty good job of capturing that. But I'll let you be the judge:
We've also had a fair amount of snow this month. It's been a little warmer lately, but no less snowy. So we took the opportunity to prune our fruit trees and grapevines. Our Karl's Favorite pear continues to play the role of curly willow. It's a pretty convincing ruse if you ask me. No matter what we do, we can't get him to grow straight branches, so we're just going with the flow. He's a healthy tree, and hopefully he'll bloom this year so it can pollinate the hardy pear and we can get more than a single pear.
Well, that's all for now. I leave you with our friend, Buster:
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