things left behind....sometimes hard to remember

every loaf of bread that we buy ticks me off.
bread that isn't cheepy white has been inching it's way up in price - it's almost four dollars for a loaf of nice sliced bread.
and bagueettes are cheeper but the don't last a day before turning stale (which i secretly like for tea in the morning).

nils, who is living in the cottage (dads house) right now has been experimenting with different flours and yeast - wild and kefir mostly - and he has been turning out some damn fine breads. so i bought some new bread flour and i have been making bread for gio and i for the past few weeks.

i started thinking about when my mom would bake bread. it was alway hot and perfect! she made a honey white. i can even remember her showing me how to proof yeast with the honey, and when you did it right how the yeast puffed up in soft pellows above the water/honey. but i could not for the life of me remember the recipe. but there was one place i thought that might have it written down the montissori school of mc leans cook book. i knew that all three of my aunts favorite recipes are in there. and there it was page thirty-six "mother's white bread" with note "this is the bead my mother baked almost daily during the war". so i have chosen grandma parasines bread as of the almost daily baking for us.

i am wanting to experiment with other breads... infact my father and mother in law - seu valomr e ma helena - gave me a brilliant bread cook book in portugese. i can understand half of it - most of the ingredients repeat over and over i just need to learn a little more kitchen portuguese and i'll be right there.

then and now

when gio and i first saw our houses i could see what could be...........



we had a "death march" to finish all the projects we wanted to get done by june - family coming - then the wedding plans - we accomplished alot......with some great help from our great friends!

christmas in september

how's the pressure canning going?
GREAT!!! thank you for asking!

gio bought me a pressure canner last christmas and i finally got the nerve up to use it last night.....

sam and i purchased two bushels of roasted green chilles on sundeay.
we proceeded to peel one and a half bushels by hand - and i do mean by naked hand!
i've been peeling chilies for several years now and i have never had the burning of the hands as i did from the sheer amount of chilies that i peeled with out hand protection. burning as if only my hands had been sent to hell!!!!
this pain lasted until the next morning........we wore gloves last night to finish the last half a bushel

san and shannon came over last night. shannon brougt the gloves - she works at cu med center examining hepatitis c these were new gloves!
so we sat on the porch peeling the remaining chilies and some that shannon brought from utah from her grandparents garden and waited for the pressure canner to do its magic.

we did a hot pack of the green chili and got the pressure canner all set up and turned up the heat. i had done all my reading about it that morning. the booklet had said that it was normal to have some steam leakage at the begining but the canner would just not get up to pressure.
sam and shannon decieded to fiddle around with some of the external parts (the overpressure plug) and used a little too much force and it blew!!!!! only the steam.

so here's what we learned.
1. double check all plugs and "o" ring
2.pressure should come up once the pressure regulator is placed on with in three to five minutes
3. do not push in the overpressure plug!

i canned eighteen jars of green chili last night and i am in the process of canning the remaing chili and then i am going for the zucchini. i thought it would be nice to can the zucchinis with diffferent herbs per quart?????? we'll see this winter how it turns out.

good food good friends good evening

last night gio and i had a few friends over for dinner - casey frank, steve best and rebecca vaughn. super cool!

this is probably going to be our last dinner party until we remodle my house....
or i make a different dinner table for the dinning room....

last night we all were pondering how we could keep the out door dinning in the cold weather.
there of couse is the wear warm clothes but this answer is only for the person dinning not the dinner.
our biggest problem we found earlier this year was the food got so cold so fast!
we also dicussed hanging a canvas drape around the dinner table.....??? is this then dinning inside not out?
or we can have a wood burning cast iron stove out around us or a fire pit table? who knows, i just hope we get invited over to other large warmer house this winter for dinners!hint

but as for last nights dinner party i think it went smashingly. every guest brought a bottle of wine. casey frank brought over pomegranate wine super delicious! i have nerver had it before last night.

i also made these little italian cookies named farfalle (butterfly in italian) but i don't really know the recipe.
gio took me to a restaurant over on tennyson and 44th named parisi, they have the best pizza in denver... they have a wood burning oven...tastes like italy!! and parisis have astonishing desserts as well.
gio, mira, zac and i tried one dessert - farfalle cookies, and i fell in love with these little beauties but i have search the internet looking for a recipe or a reference to the cookie but i have found nothing........

so i went on fact finding mission to parisi to see if i could get any info on the cookie dough.
the guy at the counter said he did not know exactly what the dough was made out of but he did know that it has cream chees in the dough.
ha ahahaha . so i have come up with my verison of the dough (i have only made it once) and i think i did a good job and the cookies taste great but their not as good as parisi...much to my chagrin.
has anyone else ever had these? they have jam in the middle....

here's to the stupendous summer dinner we've had and to more to come next spring!

jenny vs. aphids

the garden has been very good to us this year.
even part of the leftover garden has been super; the priests left us mint (which has been made into tea), oregano, sage (which flowered in spring) and forever bearing spinach chard (fed us from march until june and is back again)

i have had more chilies this year than ever. i used to try and grow bell peppers out here but never got many. this year i switched to cubanelle peppers for the sweet and pablanos and habaneros for the hotties. i have made some great salas from these peppers.

we also have acorn squash and zucchini that keeps rolling in. i have given away atleast fifteen pounds of zucchini this summer. i 've grown cabbage and brussell sprouts for the first time this year, they've been good - cabbage looks great in the flower garden! as well as broccoli once it's gone to flower.

but then the unwanted guests moved themselves in... the aphids! those little sap suckers moved in on the tomatoes and the bassicas with full force!

gio and i started the all out annihilation of the aphids. the battle raged on for five days. we did suffer some casualties, three tomatoes plants had to be removed. the three plants that i cut down were just acting as aphid baby makers! the poor plants had no new growth and no fruit or flowers - they were dying.

we kept up on the spraying soapy water on all the plants and after the removal of the baby making three the aphids started to die off in large number!!! and this next part i am a little confused about....... the large black ants moved in all over that tomatoes and seemed to be eating all of the aphids........eating? i am not sure but after that day no more aphids!!!!

so next year i need to do things differently in the garden, more companion planting and not having too many of the same plant near each other...... and more food stuffs......asparagus!!! and more beans....

aphids. i have learned more about them this year than i've wanted. nils told me that aphids are good for you skin....just crush 'en in!

some time has past but the feelings remain the same

gio's super great family arrived in june to join us for our wedding and then travel around a bit in colorado...... we took them to garden of the gods and then over to manitou for a sip of spring water.......

for all of you that have not had the pleasure please let me introduce you to my wonderful mother in law marie helena and my super sweet sister in law carmela


this is my incredible husband and father in law gio and mr.valmour




sam has become part of the family!


a trip in to manitou is never complete without pinball







as i mentioned in the previous entry sam, mira and i took a trip to austin tx for amber vazquez wedding to rob bode


but first we took a peek through rowell new mexico




we went to a few art museums while in austin, the ground at laguna gloria were breath taking


we cleaned up nicely


mr.sam carstens thank you partner


miss mira




amber and her fathers grand enterance






random piece of art that i enjoyed at laguna gloria

the time and life of.....

time has flown!
i just popped my head back up to realize that it's july and not only july but august will be here in just a few days!

our wedding was magical!!!
i still haven't gotten my photos developed yet
the last few months have been jam packed with great friends and family.
and soon i will post some photos.... i have had an interesting battle with my computer recentlty- my ipod was accidently dropped and finally went to computer hell/heaven so i had to go thru computer hell but now i am back.....

august is almost over and i have been a busy bee this month.
i got back a week ago today from austin texas where my good friend/old room mate (amber vazquez) got married to a man (rob bode) that she has known since she was twelve (she met him at the mall in 7th grade!) they never dated untill just a few years ago, but they were great buddies for years! the wedding was super great, amber chose an old texas town/ranch to get married. the ranch had five buildings on the propety; church, saloon, school house, and two other buildings that i didn't enter. the day was as beautiful as the bride.

i drove down to austin with sam and my good friend that is visiting from cananda mira. the drive down was fun. we stopped in roswell nm, and carlsbad nm, and drove strait into austin the second day,

i think my favorite day out in austin was the day we went out to lake country to kirnsey springs.
ms krunsey's in her lawn chair collecting the three dollar enterance fee and she then sets you loose on her property.
her property has two water falls and several large spring pools.
the best description was from amber's friend bently; it's like walking into alice in wonderlands spring.
when you first walk in there are eight foot lond wind chimes blowing in the breeze, and then the path that takes you down to the spring is twisty and turny and puts you out facing the water fall with giant hanging plants and moss all dripping down the cliff.
i so wished that gio was there to swim with me there, i knew that he would be pushing the kids out of his way to play on the rope swing!

i will post photos soon, i get my wedding pics in on tuesday.
love to all who have faith that i will write again!

do i have a minute?

not really ....

the toninelos will be here sunday!
it's funny that working at the coffee shop alot of known stragers know that gio's parents and sister are coming next sunday.
yesterday at work a pair of favorites thought that the toninelo's were arriving yesterday morning, everyones excited!

the weather is still not behaving for us..... the fence is almost finished, dad has finished making the gates.

dad and i took out anual father/daughter home depot trip this evening to get the second set of hinges for the gate.....soon it wiil all be over.

this morning dad, gio and i went over to our friend brendan's rental house to pick up the fridge and stove that he gave us for gio's house.
brendan warned me and he even felt bad that the appliances were dirty - really dirty!
this was a rental house with boys living in it! yuck doesn't say enough!!!

but this project went smoothly. we spent the better part of the afternoon cleaning them in the court yard before hauling them into gio's new kitchen!!!

life will be slower soon and hopefully more fun..........

not to say that i am not having fun right now .......i can wistle while i work .......but at this point every thing seem like one more stupid thing i have to do to complete the main projects......

i am so looking forwards to gio's family being here and all my friends gathering here for the wedding. .... it's the cherry on the cake

just can't sleep

two weeks to go.
two big projects left, both are started.

the sun shade trellis boards are up and what a difference it makes. the temperature in denver these days are mid to high 80's with no clouds and today is supposed to hit the 90's... my straw hat is still packed away some where in the garage?????????

dawn came and i got up. i have been working extra shifts this week for the morning girl heather and i've been awake before dawn the past few days and sleeping in isn't happening.

i have to pick my friend nick up at eight am to bring him back over here to help us today. oh, i feel so pulled! i want to go over and pick up a truck load of compost soil for the garden, i keep thinking that i don't have the time (and the truck can be scary) to get it but the veggie plants will love it!

i got several types of heirloom tomato plants this year to taste the difference. several of them are russian and supposedly more hardy towards frost. i got my broccoli, brussel sprouts, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers, and alot of herbs that i are new to me. i went herb shopping with harlan who has just finished a year at an organic farm that specialized in salad greens as well as salad herbs.

hopefully we can get the fence done in the next todays and then the trellis is up to my dad basiclly. and i have two more small stone walls to build.....good luck! and then there's the wedding.

the invites that rebecca von did for us are super beautiful and special!
my dress has one last fitting today.
we are going to buy one or two cakes and i am going to make a trifle or maybe two trifles?

i can't wait for gio's family to get here! i feel like christmas is coming (in my stomach)and the anticipation is hard!

i have had some sad news from far away friends that they will not be able to make it........but i understand......except for maureen hutchinson! SHE HAS TO COME!!!!.

i just want a super loving happy families combinding day!

anyway, i think i am going to go make lunch for the troops that are headed here today, green chili?

snow??????

denver style.
snow in april.
cold cold cold!

all of my plans to work out side have been stomped on by mother nature.
the cold rain started on tuesday,
buy wednesday it was slushy rain,
thurday snow appeared,
today is friday and it's still snowing lightly.

this time of year all of the gardeners start asking the age old question -
have you planted yet?
i would be planting some cold weather crops if i was ready in the yard already....
but the snow has stopped my outdoor activities for now.
this makes me more than ever want to put in a sprouting/growing area so i can start seeds in feburary and have my own plants out on mothers day.
the garage is going to be the cheese storage and growning room along with all the other activies i want to do out there.

because of the snow and cold i went thrifting with dad as our afternoon activity.
the thrift stores here are getting pricey!
half of the good thirft stores are closing and moving out of denver into aurora,
or the land is being bought by flipping wal-mart to put up yet another one of the super mega crap complexes!
but i did hit fifty percent off day at the arc on colfax and sheridan.

we went down to the arc on alameda and fed.
this arc at one time i loved to go to but as of now i just get icky vibes from the place (i am waiting for the building to tell me to get out).

so dad and i are having a fine time, dad found me a lovely apple peeler/corer for two dollars.... and then i ventured over to the kitchen electrical crap and i found a nice coffee grinder for three dollars! super!
i hate my grinder it's top never comes off easily anymore and this one is super nice!
then dad and i look around a little more and we start to go to the check out when a man approaches me
he said that he was going to buy the grinder but he'd put it down for a minute -
what?
and he put it down and i picked it up-
does the words tuff tittys mean anything?
is this not bad form?
if you aren't holding on to a desired item and you place on a shelf with similar items is this item then up for grabs and finder keepers looser weeper?

i gave the looser the grinder. i hate that arc!

home project update:
gio's house is almost complete.
bedroom floor done
office floor done
living room floor installed and urethaned twice

pond dug
pond liner installed
flagstone wall started - then the rain put a halt on that

here are a few pictures

gio and the rocks


this is where we bought the stone


this is us hiding from the hail storm that popped up


pond wall

the latest from the home front.....

sunday.
it's raining.
rain is great to get out here...
today was to be more time in the garden for me....







the raised planter beds i am planning to look like the planter i built over at 1717
this is a photo of the finished planter with beging growth...








gio's house.
almost ready to be checked off the list!!
three out of the four rooms of flooring in!
the living room floor that has to be installed is getting started tomarrow.

dad and gio installed the sink, sink cabinet, and hanging top cabinets on saturday!!!
those industrious men also put in the final pieces on the raised bed planter. and then i fed them well!

what's next you asked??
the pond.
the front fence and gate
the open roof between little house and my house
how much more time you ask until we complete this??? five to six weeks! plus plan the wedding... it's a sinch! not a problem ! i got everything under control!

help!!!

well, i did get sent some angles this week.
rebecca von (a great designer/artist) is going to do our invites! she is so creative!
and trish christianson has graciously given her time to help (make!! ) my dress she too is talented in many ways but espically with dress making!!!

da dum dee dum, da dum deee dmmmmm

see that face!
see how cute he is!!
i get to see that face every morning!!!!
that cute face asked me to marry him the other day!!!
and i said yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can you see my smile???
i love him very much
xxoojennyl.

what's going on here....

we have a comfirmation for the arrival of gio's parents: june 5th!!!
i really need to get back to studing!
the arrival of my father and the construction that is going on here has me out of my routine and i haven't cracked the books for two weeks!!!
gio did buy me a little dictionary to help me out....

like all good spings in denver in the past three days it has been 70deg and sunny, then it the temp dropped the next day to 40 deg and rainy, then the next morning it was 50 deg by ten am then stated snowing by two pm! last night it snowed most of the night and has left us cold and damp today.....the trees and flowers don't know what to do!!!



here's some proof of what we're trying to do out front when it's not snowing on us.....

a good reply

maureen finally got a great responce.....i still think the others suck......
Maureen but I wanted to add a comment from Technosailor’s site that I thought was great!
Alan Aspuru-Guzik Says:
March 28th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
Well, I came here via the weblog competition, and found this discussion thread. Here is my opinion.
x) When Europe started free trade agreements with Eastern Europe and extended the economic community to their countries, they did CONSCIOUS EFFORT to improve the economic situation there. The Economist (a right wing magazine) criticized the US strongly because instead of helping México (members of NAFTA) catch up economically, it continued draining it’s economy with the World Bank and IMF predatory policies, and did not invest in it as a REAL trading partner to raise standards of living, and therefore eliminate the standard of living imbalance that leads to the inmigration that you seem to worried about. FYI, the size of the economy of México, as well as the number of citizens is comparable to the new 10 countries that are joining the EU (Poland, etc…). The growth of the Mexican economy is of future benefit for the US and Canada.
x) Reiterating my point: Since the crisis of the 80’s and the Tequila effect of 1994, both CREATED by economic conditions imposed by the World Bank (US puppet) policies, the Mexican economy became weaker. The governments of México, as puppets of the US aggravated the situation.
x) The revolution that you call for in Latin America is happening. Maybe you won’t like it, due to your right-leaning ideas, but happily, it is a LEFTIST revolution (Chavez in Venezuela, Lula in Brazil, Tavaré Vazquez in Uruguay, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in México when he wins in 2006, Evo Morales in Bolivia, when he wins in the next election, Kirchner in Argentina, and even Castro in Cuba (!!) [I am a social-democrat, so I don’t like dictatorships, but I prefer Castro to Pinochet and other right-wing dictators which were SUPPORTED by the US in the “name” of fighting “communism”!]). This revolution seeks to have an independent Latin America, free of US intervention.
You might not like it, but the way to stop the inmigration is for Latin America to have the profits of their own natural resources: that means Chávez using OIL PROFITS for the poor, The Bolivians taxing Texaco and Chevron for extracting oil and gas in their countries and kicking out Enron and other water transnationals.
I am the son of a LEGAL inmigrant. My father is Mexican and was working here for Fairchild Electronics when I was born. Then we moved back to México. But other people, that are sons or daughters of inmigrants and are born on this land have the same rights as other Americans. Your proposal is ridiculous, as stated above, it entails punishing UNBORN people for whatever is the situation of their [MOSTLY ENTERPRENEURIAL AND HARD-WORKING] parents.
I thought that the right-wingers were for defending the rights of unborn people… “Oy vei, Oh my god, ¡Dios mío!”

something different

no photos
no light stuff.
i was visiting my friends blog when i tripped over an entry and had to comment.


6 Responses to “On being hispanic”
* Aaron Says: Sorry, Mo… the truth hurts sometime… :\

* Maureen Says: what do you mean the “truth”?

* Mike Says:
I agree with you to a point and your comments concerning the Statue of Liberty are fact, but those words do not provide entry into this country illegally. I do not agree that a child born in this country from “illegal” parents should automatically be granted U.S. citizenship. The parents were not citizens and you know as well as I do the reason the pregnant mother came here was because she knew the baby would become a citizen and that would provide her entry as well. That’s what we have happening on our southern border today. It is out of control and President Bush, who I support on most issues is giving Carte Blanche to Mexico’s president Fox. I feel a fence or wall should be erected along the border and anyone caught crossing illegally should be shipped back immediately. Immigrants wanting to come here should only be allowed to enter the country through legal means. Another consideration is the fact that many criminals are crossing into America, not too mention the threat of terrorist coming here, but that is a major concern. Of course the average person crossing the border is not a criminal, but how do we know? We have enough murderers, rapist already in this country. There are many murders, rapes and robberies occurring in the towns and cities that lie along the crossing routes. We should show compassion, but this has to be gotten under control now…

* Sean M. Crawford Sr. Says: I agree with Mike when he says some control must be applied. But I have seen the consequences of crossing borders in Germany. Remember there was an East Berlin & West Berlin at one time. I saw a guy get his brains shot clean out of his head crossing the border and that forever changed my life.

AMERICAN DREAM??? Where the hell is it so I can claim mine. I am ALL-NATURAL American born and have yet to see the so-called AMERICAN DREAM yet. And how can you talk about people on welfare sucking up money from the government? Just like you took a stand on those people you know that have gone through to arrive at what they have I too know some who have gotten off of welfare but have yet to arrive. I am one who has experienced that first hand. Even though I may not appear like I have been on it.

What pisses me off is opportunities are given to those with almost every letter of the alphabet in their last name. It is easier for them to apply to colleges and get accepted, aplly for jobs and get hired. You think this illegal issue is bad try the form of slavery that stiff exist and then HOLLA ACHA DAWG!!!!

You can argue the point all day long that slavery doesn’t exist but until you live this right here you just don’t know. Illegals got it much easier.

Personally I feel until we can control and contain what is going on right here in the USA this issue is just a diversion from the real facts.

* Maureen Says: What are you talking about Mike? A wall? Like the Berlin Wall - keep out the undesirables? You are aware of the fact that there is a wall actually erected along most of the border right? And border patrol with guns and dogs that do ship the mexicans back when they catch them. And have you hear of a little thing called deportation? Yes, an illegal caught here gets deported to his country! I should know, one of my cousins was deported. So there ARE consequences. And how does go about legally immigrating to this country? I’m only aware of two ways - getting an american sponsor or marrying an american. How does a dirt poor hispanic go about getting a sponsor? Remember many of these people have no electricity - no money for phones… so how do they do it? Can you think of any LEGAL way? And the American Dream, Sean? How many tv’s do you have in your house. Wait, does your house have a door? Electricity? Indoor plumbing? A carpet or hardwood floor? You have a car right? That right there is what they consider the American Dream. I never felt so rich until I went to the Yucatan in Mexico where they lived in shacks - they didn’t have doors or electricity. I saw people actually sweeping their dirt floors… Why sweep a dirt floor? they got around on bicycles with large baskets in the front that they used to collect the wood they chopped during the day in order to cook and have light at night. I could NOT believe my eyes!!!!! I would never have thought people live like that in this day and age! And one last thing… people keep saying they get free healthcare, ah no… they do gets billed for care if they don’t have insurance and if they can’t pay it then they get hassled by creditors just like the rest of us!

And i completely agree that this issue is a diversion from what’s going on with our own country.

* jennyl Says:
you men (not to make this a gender issue) all are too rich and powerful to understand the full problem.
as soon as are country starts to slip and all of you over extended credit citizens with little skills are standing on bread lines then you might know desperation.
slavery, “invading mexicans!”, the yellow man coming in a getting your place in college these are all superficial complaints.
you all suck!
you all have too much, why doesn’t the mexican hater put his money where his mouth is and sponsor a dirty mexican into this country ?
hey i bet he needs a maid!
my family sponsored two separate families into this country, there you go no one had to get into a barrel or a shipping crate and risk their life to Yes better their situations. People come here to escape horrifying circumstance not to milk “our system”.

And as for our real problem in this country….the cows are following the herd, no citizen is in control there lies OUR problems… buy more stuff, go out to eat more often, disconnect your self more from what we really are.

just trying to make friends….j

he likes gw?
these are the thoughts of east coast republican!!!!
this topic burned my butt!
the gawl of these men to think that bordering in our selves and not helping or giving a chance to anyone else to come in is ok?
do they forget what the status of their grandparents or greatgrand parents were? did they all apply and get granted citzenship before they stepped into ellis island or someother port? forget the "american dream" crap that just stands for stealing from indigenous tribes of this continent - beads anyone?

rant complete

even more progress/ dad has arrived!!!!

well the day has come that my father has arrived here in colorado.
he left virginia at two am on wednesday and drove striaght here an came up my walk at one in the afternoon on thursday 1773 miles!!!! this is ranking high for my fathers long distance no stopping except to get gas driving record!!!

i thought that he would want a little rest the next day, maybe go out for lunch? no, he informed me that i better get a hussle on it be cause we had work to DO!!!!



he and i had chatted the day before about what i would like to have done.... no time to spare we got to it on friday.....



can you believe that my father is turning 76 in may??? he out did me this day, everyday still.....



all toll on friday we (he, i was he lacky) tore out two closets and saved all the lumber that we could ( this was my job, pulling out nails, screws and staples) we saved everything but the sheet rock!!! not bad.

as for saturday: gio and my father busted out my cement walk (fifty feet long). and the rest of the time this week has been spent on purchasing all the items for building the kitchen in the little house..... and much to my chringin my father has filpped the bill for the big items..... he has also designed a vautled trellis inbetween the little house and my house. we have also completed the design/bid for building the fence that i would like.....lots of stuff going on here.....

on a side bar, i got the kifir grains that i have been waiting for !!!!
kifir cheese, kifir drinks, kifir cream cheese!!!! all waiting to happen!

progress + gio vs.sly

gio and i went out last friday to buy vynol tiles for the little house /penthouse/ guesthouse.
we went to "buds thrift" - it's an industral thrift store.
it's a good organization: they hire hard to hire and sell the end of industrial jobs materials and recycled good - flooring, sink, cabinets, ovens, doors etc....

today gio and i clear out the little house, cleaned up the floor and laid out the tiles to see what we wanted.
now i have to say what you are about to see is the random tile pattern that i liked - gio wanted to do more of a three color checker board patter..... i still am not to sure....but here are some wall colors to vote on!











last tuesday out gio and i went trifting... this is what gio got into!


my father (mr.douglas le grand) should be out here soon! next week? gio and i
need to finish his floor and get his house set back up cozy for him.

i chatted with my father today about the house project as well as the front yard demolition and new fence/wall. i have already mention the idea to build a solid wall that has open window areas but i am still not sure what materials to use and what style to adopt.
on a walk this morning gio and i came across a house a few blocks away that had an adobe wall with flagstone tops for their courtyard with double doors...hummmmm....gio still has the picture in his camera. this wall/fence very much interest me....



this photo show the simplicity for the wall....





this is not what i want but i do like the wall division with the use of wood slatted materials....

and "as the stomach turns" work has changed the schedule again!
eddie quit to go work at the hi-dive/spudnik as a bartender, i wish him good luck.
an zakk is still in town and should be here for the next two to three months.
when zakk leaves they are going to hire someone new....but until then we are not sure what the next schedule will be like?
as for now though..... flanders wanted to do opening:wish granted!
gio agreed to let go of his morning shift for flanders to step in, he didn't know how bad of a change it was going to be. tina gave him two night shifts - less$$$.
gio seems ok for the moment ??? i've been having the feelings of looking for a parttime job and maybe drop a day from work. too much st.marks drama....

i can't wait to see my dads sparking blue eyes!!!!
i haven't seen him since last spring!
it seem to me that he makes his way to see me right around the end of winter/spring of spring time. i have been waiting a long time to work on my own property with him, especially the designing the garden space! super!!! the picking of his brain will begin.