sunshine!

Spring in California always brings a big fat smile to my face, and this year promises to be a banner year. I've been tackling some personal projects and cleaning up muddy messes I made throughout the rainy season, and setting up roots to minimize future erosion. Yes, that's a pretty lame metaphor, but I haven't had coffee in over a week, so bear with me.

Yesterday was glorious. We had doggy company at our house, and after an exhausting (and hot!) walk, a bath and beauty treatment, a productive training session, and then another long walk with his dad, our wee dog visitor was totally exhausted. He and Booker curled up snoring, while the humans watched some Alton Brown and ate some raw blue cheese. So nice.

The limoncello has already turned the same color as the daffodils on my windowsill. I can't wait to see what 35 more days will do. I'm seriously toying with the idea of doing a second batch of something different, either another limoncello recipe or possibly lime or kumquat. It feels so hopeful to be making something, totally hands-off, that I'll get to enjoy in the future when I think my life will be a little different than it is now. I have a bunch of secret hopes, and it would be so awesome to enjoy all the various fruits of my labor at once.

Project eat-at-home has been going fairly well but I can't believe how often I need to eat now. I spent a few days utterly sick and didn't eat anything, and now have come roaring back to life, eating four or five small meals every day. I am about to go celebrate by overindulging in breakfast food. Hint: red flannel hash is on the menu. And coffee. Woooo!