beautiful vines, originally uploaded by ihategreenpeas.
“There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.” - Ben Franklin.
This was a nice way to start our three day weekend. We went up to the wine country with our friends Mimie and Jon…we stayed in the Sonoma Valley, which I’m sort of partial to. Not a [...]

today has been an interesting day.  i’ve been feeling quite lazy (as have my dogs) lounging around in the shade and basking in the sun.  there isn’t a breeze to be found and i’m thirsty for a bit of cooler air.  the temp is 88 degrees but it feels like 100 in my house.  so what does that [...]

pasta with clams and shrimp, originally uploaded by ihategreenpeas.
the weather is amazing today and tonight is no exception.   it’s a nice and breezy 75 degrees and i thought it would be nice to have a seafood and wine dinner so i made some pasta with clams and shrimp in a light pinot grigio sauce.   i thought [...]

i was puttering around the backyard today and saw that my roses had bloomed wonderfully…when did this happen?  it wasn’t like this last week?!   ahhhh…i love springtime. 

Holy shit batman!  What an awesome gorgeous weekend!  The weather was picture-perfect San Francisco!  The pups lounged about in the grass soaking up the sun and we finally had a ‘mud-free’ floor day.  Nice.  I hope this lasts!  I’m tired of the sludge and the $240 heating bills.   It totally cramps my shopping style…

The past couple of weeks have blown by.  It’s amazing how you just get so involved in what you’re doing that you don’t notice the time slipping away.  So Valentine’s Day was a week or so ago…and we spend it eating heart shaped Krispy Kremes and going to Celia’s for dinner.  It was so crowded!  [...]

this is what the sky looked like this morning in Lafayette…at least our cars will be ‘washed’.   i love the smell of rain however…the trees, the streets, it all smells so clean.   

or do weather forecasters have the only job where they can be mistaken 90% of the time…but still keep their jobs?  I think we’ve heard “it’s going to rain through the weekend starting today”…”today” being Monday.  It’s now Wednesday.  *sigh*   What a dicktease…