Day 204/365--Empty

My daily contribution to my year long "Around the House" photo project. 365 photos. Blogged here.



An empty closet may look more like a "before" picture than an after, but up until last Saturday this closet held all of our giveaway stuff. The box we started while we unpacked the first boxes. The closet thinning. The craft room declutter. The random stuff that appears from various places and has no home. The $15 rug we bought before moving in together that only ever worked in my head and was most certainly no longer my style. All that stuff. *poof* Off to (hopefully) happier homes via the local thrift store. And our closet? Empty. : )

Quotables #11

As an engineer, I have a soft spot for quotes that capture what we do. This one is both funny and true. Good engineers put together reliable ideas in new ways to do new things. But we far prefer not to use new ideas to do new things. It's risky.

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. "
--Unknown

Flashback Friday # 11: Pondering

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At some point while we were dating, the baby pictures came out. The hubby had wandered off somewhere and his grandmother was showing me her photo albums. That is when I first saw this picture of my love which quickly became one of my favorites (in the same way that the infamous Bow Picture is).

It's not just the fact that the wee would-be electrical engineer managed to discover this cord at the bottom of a basket, pull it out, and then sit and ponder it, that gets me. It's the look of intense concentration. He is completely focused on figuring out this strange thing. And he still does that. He still gets that same look when he the wheels are turning. I love the way those little habits and things that make us uniquely us are often things that have been with us our whole lives.

Day 203/365--Baby Blue

My daily contribution to my year long "Around the House" photo project. 365 photos. Blogged here.



I'm loving this Daylight Savings Time stuff. Today I came home from work and...it was still light out! While waiting for the hubby to arrive, I was happily ferrying dishes downstairs and sacking trash. On one trip upstairs I happened to glance up and see...a gorgeous blue sky. Absolutely glowingly blue. Streaked with puffy clouds. A tantalizing promise of the spring almost come. The bare, berry laden, branches a reminder of the winter still here.

Snugglebug

Our kitties are sneak cuddlebugs. They like to pretend that they are big and bad and tough and don't need you and oh are you going to sit there and provide a lap? Well I might just come cuddle. But not on the lap, no, but almost.

But what really melts my heart? Makes me go all gooey and "of course I will never get up and leave you even if my legs fall asleep and I'm starving to death"?

The purrs.

How can you resist this?