WHAM! Now that's a word I should use more often.

May 7

Main and Plumb

On the way to meet friends, I saw this guy. Not hard to miss, one might say, since he is covering the entire wall, but it's funny how we can look at something like this and not think it's anything special. But it is because it's huge and somebody painted it.

May 8

Canal Walk

Now these I came to see on purpose. Not specifically legs sticking out of a target, but all the murals that are painted on the flood wall. Worth it.

May 9

Dining Room

Preparing for potluck. Theme: WHAM! And that is what we said when we ate this.

May 10

Bellevue neighborhood

Sometimes I drive to other neighborhoods to take walks because they have different things to offer than my neighborhood. Like this charming door.

May 11

Kitchen

Freezing bananas!

May 12

The Diamond

First game of the season. (For me, not the Squirrels.) And we rode our bikes there. It was fun.

May 13

Living Room

A picture of pictures. I made my thank you cards, now if I could only write them....

May 14

Neighbors driveway

Andy and his brother were organizing the two garages we use, neither of which are ours. We could totally have a group costume involving pitchforks and axes next year for Halloween.

May 15

Kitchen

Yep, that's in my kitchen, not outside in nature where giant spiders belong. And not just any giant spider, a black widow. In the spinach that we got from a friend's garden. That I was washing with my hands. I could have died.

May 16

Room 450

Not quite enough space to do a puzzle, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

May 17

The Boat House

We can look nice when we have to. 

May 18

The River

First trip of the season down to the dock.

May 19

The River

Today's project: remove that engine from that sailboat and start taking it apart. That wasn't really my project, but I watched a little bit and then I took a nap.

baby! wedding! yippee! (mom's chalkboard greeting)

April 21

Main Street

We went to hear Sir Ken Robinson and Rafe Esquith talk about education at the Richmond Forum. It's a pretty beautiful place inside.

April 22

Kitchen

We are breaking all rules and using this one wedding gift. Why? Because it is the best kitchen appliance since velcro. 

April 23

Dining Room

Next year's Halloween costume: Andy and his mom as siamese twins.

April 24

Dining Room

Snacks for the road trip. We are not messing around AT ALL.

April 25

Johnson City, TN

We stayed with some dear friends for the night (one reason it is worth driving to AR). This was in a window display at the place across the street from where we ate pizza.

April 26

Nashville, TN

While we were driving from Richmond to Little Rock, my cousin and her husband were driving from Little Rock to Richmond. We met in Nashville for lunch! These are not my cousins, but window washers, which we would not have seen had it not been for the meet up.

April 27

Downtown Little Rock, AR

We spent the morning touring the walking bridges and Heifer International before picking up Sister from the airport and going on a field trip to taste pie.

April 28

My Parent's Kitchen

A quick explanation for this trip: Sister had a baby shower and I had a bridal shower. Done. 

These mustache hooks might have been the best part of our loot. (Not that everything else wasn't fantastic also. For real.)

April 29

The Compound

This is our wedding tree. Picking this spot was the main goal of our weekend.

April 30

I-40 East

We probably won't be back in Arkansas until September. Later, gator.

May 1

Cave City, KY

We pulled up to the Wigwam Village in the middle of a pretty intense lightening storm at 11 pm the previous night. I don't think I've ever been so excited for lodging! We spent a good bit of the day at Mammoth Cave National Park and then finished our drive to Richmond around 3 am the next morning.

May 2

Front Door

My friend Mimi made this bird for us. I think it looks great with our National Geographic Yellow door.

May 3

Petina Grill

After a dress pinning, Elisabeth and I went out to dinner to celebrate. I'm not sure most people celebrate a successful appointment with the seamstress, but Elisabeth thought it worthy and I can't say I minded.

May 4

Alamo BBQ

I can't resist giant things. Or tiny things for that matter.

May 5

Office

Kitties are a good scale. Andy's sweater progress. I'm afraid I'm only halfway done with the torso. Great googily, he might be lucky if it's done by Christmas 2013.

May 6

Office

So I've just given away the secret of my grandma life when Andy is either at work or sleeping because he was up all night at work. I knit (slowly) and watch movies. It's okay if this happens two nights in a row.

If I didn't bore you enough, take a look at these. It's all the photos from The First and Only Trip to Arkansas to do Wedding Stuff.

We bought the ostrich egg!

April 3

Front yard

Who is in this photo? My mom. How long has she been in town? Ten minutes. What is she doing? Starting a project.

April 4

Sister's Dining Room

My mom did not drive fifteen hours alone. She had dozens of tiny companions.

April 5

WF

That is an ostrich egg and it is in my cart, swaddled by my hoodie. It's most definitely tough enough that it didn't need to be swaddled, but I was being an overprotective buyer. We had some friends over for brunch and that was the only excuse I needed to splurge on an overpriced, oversized egg! Umm, it was awesome.

April 6

Kitchen table

Homemade cinnamon rolls after their second rise. I didn't wake up early enough to make these for brunch and I think that was a good call because we didn't have to share them with as many people.

April 7

Front yard

Yes, Mom is still in town. Here is more of her project-ing. Nicely lined and mulched flower bed with transplant daffodils from the backyard. And National Geographic yellow shudders and front door.

April 8

That's my phone

I don't know why this got on my computer when I uploaded photos, but it's okay that it did because I apparently didn't take a picture on Easter. Oopsy daisy.

April 9

Another fail. To my credit, I was only awake for about three hours this day. I got sick the night before and was up all night with the gross stuff. It was also Mom's last day so it was a bummer to sleep through most of that.

April 10

Living Room

Z likes to take naps on our stereo receiver. It can't be too good for it with her massive amounts of shedding hair, but she'll probably bite if I try to move her.

April 11

Northside Grill

Andy and I went out for a little bite. This iron (or some metal) pig made a neat shadow above us.

April 12

Dining room

It was kind of fun to just chomp down on the bunny's ears. Not to mention the troll in the ostrich egg in the background.

April 13

BofA

Last effort to make taxes more bearable. This woman made it entertaining also.

April 14

Kroger parking lot

Yes, I said parking lot. The best chocolate milk ever was on super sale (I should've bought two). because it was going out of date on the 15th. A challenge? Hardly. I didn't even wait until I left the premises to start drinking.

April 15

Kitchen counter

I got some fresh pasta from the culinary school. I rolled it out and filled it with delicious butternut squash puree stuff and made ravioli!

April 16

Front yard

I take this picture a lot because I sit on the front porch a lot. This time I was experimenting with Hipstamatic.

April 17

Lamplighter

I've been wanting to try this place out so I treated myself to lunch after swim lessons. It's always a challenge (for me) dining alone. I tend to eat to fast and hurry the whole process along. I didn't do that this time, but I did look at my phone way too much.

April 18

Dining room

I wanted to make a rainbow cake so I did! It looks homemade...

April 19

Dining room

Last ditch photo effort. I will say, the lines, patterns, and evidence of life come together nicely.

April 20

Monument Ave.

I have finally seen a carstache in real life!!!

I had to do a two-parter because our iris is looks professionally grown.

This spring is more like summer so I've been outside a lot.

March 22

Front Porch

Yay spring! Azaleas budding, even though they've been living under a ladder.

March 23

Front yard

Believe it or not, this is my first time to ever mow a lawn. I kind of liked it!

March 24

Dining room

Leftover desserts from culinary school work. I will take any form of payment.

March 25

Bedroom

Sneaky kitty.

March 26

Bryan Park

This tree wants to go swimming so badly.

March 27

Back yard

Z following me around and climbing my leg.

March 28

Hilliard

Ah! I pulled up to a stoplight beside this car and this guy popped up!

March 29

Kitchen...floor

There goes our eggs.

March 30

Office

A night in (okay, who am I kidding, that's most nights) watching Fantastic Mr. Fox. I want a pet fox that wears pants and whistles and clicks his tongue.

March 31

Monument Ave.

Once I noticed this yarn bomb, I started seeing them everywhere! Way to make the 10k festive!

April 1

Plumb Street

Richmond has charming alleys (in the daytime). To me, this will remind me how I spent the day with two old roommates from college and walking to my car afterward. To you, it won't mean much. That's what's neat about these photos everyday.

April 2

Butcher block

Our fruit bowl full of tiny oranges.