ice cream shop

cups 'n' such

This crazy shelf was in our house when we bought it,
along with a kitchen table, some chairs, a marble-topped
end table, a hospital bed, two avocado-gold couches,
and an odd assortment of bathing equipment (the house had
functioned as an elder-care home before we moved in).
Much of the leftover stuff came in handy,
as you can see.

weird buggy thing

Emily found this in the stream last week.
It was about an inch long and scrambled like a crab.
Maybe it was! She found all sorts of things that were
camouflaged in the pebbles underwater.

post party depression

Well, it was a successful 7-year-old party!
Now for the cleanup.

sunbeam

emily's papasan

May, 2004.

socks

desert stream, revisited

This is more what it looks like, really.

desert stream

Elliott & I spent the morning here with Emily and her
little people. It's just beautiful. I can hardly believe that
places like this exist in the heat of Tucson,
and just half an hour from my home!

sheet cake

This is the result of my first ever attempt to decorate a cake.
Not brilliant, but it'll do the trick! In fact, Layne and I were
working on this late last night, and we threw out our first attempt.
It consisted of chocolate that melted and then coagulated which
we were supposed to mix with the sugar syrup that boiled and then
crystallized. Sigh. On to the powdered sugar! You just can't go wrong
with powdered sugar. Well, I might be able to, if I cooked it. But we were
smart enough to stick with stuff that didn't need cooking after all that.
We also found an easy recipe for the decorative icing, & it worked great!