take a photo: something alive

1. Paula
2. BB
3. ModFruGal
4. Mish
5. Mark
6. Beth


Thanks to everyone that participated!!

happy Friday!

No five for friday. Nope. My brain is clogged up with too many things this week, none of which are ideas or inspirations for a five for friday post. Plus I'm getting a visit from my big sister this weekend and I want to get all that drywall dust vacuumed up before she arrives! Time to clean!!

yep, 1974... love those pants I'm wearing!

bend seating

I love these chairs from Bend Seating! They first caught my eye back in January and I saw them again today in the new issue of Dwell. A bit steep for me in the $400 - $450 price range but I'd jump at the chance to get some if I had that kind of cash.

lilacs

This year our lilacs bloomed a few weeks later than last year. The 2011 bunch reached their full glory right around May 13th. Last year I witnessed a group of migrating red admiral butterflies make a pit stop at our bush on May 1st, when the flowers were already starting to turn brown. It seemed like a really special moment to look up and see all those butterflies. I had been sitting out in the yard next to the tree we had planted for our friend John. We were about to head over to John's mom's house to spread his ashes. The timing of those butterflies seemed perfect, like some sort of sign that there was still so much life to embrace.

basement: paint

The basement is painted! We chose the combo of Benjamin Moore's Wickham Gray and ACE brand's Linen. I still need to do some touch ups here and there and I'll get some better photos once things are cleaned up. Mark put in all the ceiling speakers and most of the can lights. A completely bored Lottie watched from the couch.

We messed up and bought the wrong size doors for the laundry room and tool room. Ugh. We should have the correct size doors in place by this weekend.

hello Tuesday

Just a couple of reminders...
I'll be posting everyone's photos of something alive on Sunday the 22nd instead of the 21st so you have an extra day to get out and a take a photo. I know how busy we all are but I hope you'll find the time to participate. Email your photo to me by Saturday night.

My old blog, myhousepetlottie.blogspot, will be going away forever soon so please update your blogrolls, google readers, etc. to house-pet.blogspot.com Thanks!!

surprise!

I went to water my flowers and found a little mouse in my watering can. Surprise! Way better than the ginormous spider that was in there a few days earlier.