Smarch marches on

March is supposed to come in like a lion, right? Well this year it certainly is, but sort of like a lion reintroduced to a game preserve to control the gazelle population. Sure we're getting loads of rain (and some wind) but we needed it!

We made the most of a stormy weekend at home by doing things around the house. We made bagels and blondies, whole-wheat cinnamon raisin bread and winter squash risotto. Everything was really delicious, even though the bread didn't rise much in the breadmaker, so it was really dense. R brewed and made a pizza peel to use for baking homemade pizzas and bread. By the way- if you haven't tried the "Artisan bread in 5 min a day" recipe, you should, it's really great and just about the easiest homemade bread conceivable. Just leave the dough in the fridge until you want some bread/pizza/whatever. We even use it to make buns for sausages.

Luckily, Saturday afternoon was nice enough that we could take the dogs for a walk on the marsh trail. It's about half a mile round trip from our house, and the trail itself is probably just over a mile, but it was fun, and the dogs were certainly glad to get some good exercise.

I worked Friday and Monday (Dr. Seuss' birthday!), but now I have nothing lined up until my 4-day stretch just before spring break. Oh well, things tend to come up last-minute fairly often. I haven't gotten much knitting done, I don't feel. Lace patterns just don't motivate me because they are so slow, and I can't do other things while knitting them (like watch movies or read, which I can do while knitting plain stockinette or knitting or anything else I don't have to think about too much).

And finally, we attempted to buy tickets for Hawaii a few times over the past few days. The cheapest are on Priceline, which is an awful site. You go through all the steps over and over again: searching, selecting flights, putting in your info, picking seats, typing credit card numbers, only to get to a page at the end saying "sorry, we can't sell you those tickets at that price right now!" Then if you go back to the main search, sometimes the price has gone up $50, sometimes nothing is different at all, but you still Can. Not. Purchase. Argh! Also, I still have no idea where we'll stay the extra 3 nights we're there, we found one place, but then the nights changed slightly. Sigh.