Canning!

And... this is a partial image of what we canned this year.  We did tomatoes, tomato sauce, charred chili salsa, barbeque sauce, corn salsa, apple butter, applesauce, blueberry jam, strawberry jam, salsa verde...I think that's it.  We did a lot of those things.  We also have yet to do blackberry jam.  Or pear jam.  Yum.

Cherry blossoms!

Cherry blossom season in DC this year was beautiful, but rainy... the blossoms lasted for less than a week.  Still, though, it's a beautiful time of year, and I'm glad my parents were in town to see it!

Who's actually in charge in this house...

... is amply clear from this picture!

New York, New York

(It's raining so hard we might wash away...)

My friend, R, from grad school and I went up to NYC to visit my brother and our other friend from grad school a couple of weekends ago- leaving warm spring weather for chilly NYC "spring". But it was great! My brother got us onto the ferry to visit the Statue of Liberty without having to wait on that interminable line.

Southern Manhattan from the water

Statue of Liberty!

The museum for the Statue is actually pretty neat. Here we are sitting on a replica of Liberty's foot...

Her shadow is truly impressive....

My brother and I on the ferry...

Statue of Liberty!

The cranes look like dinosaurs

New York, New York......

Life recently

We definitely have become lazy about updating this blog. We'll get better about it, we promise. Really.

Things we've been up to lately:

I graduated! Yay!
Christmas in South Salem- it was lovely! And Gemmy does love her Christmas trees.

Christmas in Cobleskill, where we had the rare opportunity to carve a green Christmas pumpkin.
New Year's Eve in Ithaca, where we got to see the Sim Redmond Band! Which was great, as always.We built a little shed, which involved screwing about 5 million screws and bolts and nuts in arctic temperatures, and is just big enough to fit Jim's chair, and our camping equipment (and Jim, when he misses his chair).
Enjoyed some wonderful sparkling wine mailed from upstate New York :-)

And we're now eagerly awaiting spring. Apparently it comes earlier here. And it's been in the 40's all week, so I guess I believe it?
What has everyone else been up to?

Halloween 2010

I know it's a bit late, but here are some pics from this year's Halloween!

Awesome concert

Sim Redmond Band at Water Street
Happy fans



More happy fans.

Awesome show, great night, thanks S & J! We had a blast.


Although I still am planning to write them a letter about their policy regarding allowing customers to have drinks of water!