rustic cabbage soup

The lovely 101 Cookbooks has delivered again with this fabulous Rustic Cabbage Soup.

I used these gorgeous purple potatoes from my CSA box.

Goodbye, creepy visqueen!

For a few months we've been showering with really thick visqueen plastic stapled to the shower walls. It was to protect the walls until we had grouted and sealed everything, but eerily similar to the shower curtain from Psycho. I wish I had taken a picture of it for you guys.

Now it's gone, baby, gone! The shower feels so huge now!

New window frame built by Craig and Kip.

Grouted, caulked, framed!

Bead board in the corner above the shelves.

climbing hydrangea

...growin' on on our fence.

101 Cookbook's Quinoa

I made this delicious number for dinner last week. The recipe comes from Heidi Swanson's recipe journal, 101 Cookbooks. My sister Becky introduced me to this site a few years ago, but some reason I've just now started using it. And now I'm obsessed!