Back in February, we discovered wet carpet in our bedroom. The water was coming from a common wall in our condo. It took days to find the leak and stop the water, mainly because the plumbers needed to enter other units. They finally tracked down the leak and shut it off, but we were left with wet carpet and walls that were wet with some holes in them.
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Reply By Email
I opened my RSS reeder to my newly formed folder of Personal Blog feeds and read a nice post on Zinzy’s website about her puppy meeting a cat. I noticed that she has a “reply by email” link. It was just a normal mailto link to her email address. I made a short reply by email and thought that was a pretty nice way to comment.
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Spring Photos
It felt like spring this weekend! It was a beautiful day on Easter Sunday.
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Riding Horses
Guinevere asked to ride a horse for her 12th birthday, so I scheduled a trail ride at Irvine Regional Park. It had to be rescheduled twice because of the rain. We finally got to go on our trail ride, and it was a beautiful day! Guinevere rode a horse named Gracie, and I rode Snip.
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Let It Brie
We went to a place called Let it Brie today, and I think it’s our favorite restaurant now. This is our cheese board. Beatrix(3) loved the baguette slices with brie and fig jam.
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Rainy Day Reading
Rainy days are perfect for reading with a cup of coffee! I’m currently reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Cozy Sci-Fi? Serving tea on some moon? The promised robot hasn’t shown up yet, but it’s lovely so far.
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New Pointe Shoes
Guinevere’s first pair of Pointe shoes got too small and it hurt when she tried to dance in them. It was hard to get an appointment for a fitting at The Pointe Shop, so we ended up with a fitting just a couple hours before her ballet class.
The pointe shoe fitter could tell her old shoes were too small before she even took them all the way out. Guinevere was quickly fitted for new shoes and we drove straight to the dance studio. We got there one hour before her regular ballet class, with two hours until she was... [Read More]
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Finished: Chain of Thorns
I’ve finished Chain of Thorns, and The Last Hours series of Shadowhunter books has concluded for me.
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