home

this drawing isn't finished just yet. i'd like to add some faint pecan trees at least to the background, but the house itself is done. it's my home and my family's austin meeting place.

scissors

there are some stories that are just not appropriate to post on the internet. but i have some good ones about scissors.

right now, i have so many pairs of scissors. a purple pair, a clear pair, two blues, an orange, two pinks, and some straight up metal ones. i'm not sure why i have all of these scissors, but it seems that when i desperately need a pair, none of them are anywhere to be found.

whisk

the cooking in my kitchen is getting more complex. a blueberry buckle was prepared on friday night from a recipe that alton brown made. it's kind of like a coffee cake with blueberries--minus cinnamon, plus nutmeg. the sugary crumble crust is always my favorite part. there's still some left over if you would like a snack.

greyhounds

when i was little, my family had a dentist named dr. mattingly. he raised and raced greyhounds in his free time, and he would invite us to visit the puppies, because greyhounds need exposure to people as they are quite timid in general. i have good memories of going to play with the soft-faced little puppies, who would eventually grow to be dogs so fanatical about racing that they, if given the chance, will run themselves to death.

snails

my house has a rather large colony of snails. i've been collecting their empty shells on an electrical box outside the backdoor, but sometimes i'll come outside and find that one of them has walked away.