books & missing mornings

Book club was last night; I always really enjoy reading the books (often ones I wouldn't have found on my own) and the group discussions are great. (Emilie, you really should start coming!) We do a good job of discussing the book, but it also always leads to discussing our lives and other things. It's just really great to have a fun & interesting group of women to talk to, even if it's only once a month, and I don't really know them all that well. I guess I need more of that in my life, and I miss it, so I really appreciate book club & craft night.

Today kind of disappeared- I got back late last night(construction slowed my return trip quite a bit, I got home after 10:30) and wasn't feeling well (I need to remember to bring lactaid wherever I go, or learn to turn down ice cream, even if it does have fresh strawberries on top), so I slept in this morning. The rest of the day has just vanished. I need to get started painting the shed walls so they can be put back up this weekend (there goes our lovely sun deck in the back corner), but I have fuzzy, clean dogs at my feet here, so I'm comfy. At least I already did the laundry & started the sponge to (attempt to) make fresh Pugliese bread tonight. We have fresh spinach pasta left over from the rotolo, so I'm going to make a simple sauce with butter & wine & garlic & things to toss with crab & the noodles.

Here's Eli's birthday hat: I hope it fits; I'll give it to him in a little over a week. I need to write back to Brandy & call Tina & talk to Mindy so we can try to see everyone when we're up in Portland in a couple weeks. We never have enough time! We just need to take a full week up there, but it won't happen soon. We already have a whole list of things we need to do in the 3 days we'll be there, which doesn't yet include all the people we want to hang out with!