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Yogurt

erin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:40:35 +0000

I don’t usually read labels on food and when I do, words I can’t pronounce don’t scare me. I do not require things to be organic, free-range, local or hormone-free (I like being tall). I don’t really care (I probably should, but I just don’t) whether the chicken I’m eating was happy before it became [...]

The National Gallery

erin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:45:11 +0000

One of the ways Valiant and I have been trying to beat the heat here in DC is by doing stuff indoors. It’s too hot for man or beast (although apparently not tourists…) out there! When the heat index is over 100 and it’s humid enough to swim down the sidewalk, we have taken to [...]

Miami Dream’n

erin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:45:01 +0000

I took these shots a long time ago with my film SLR but only recently got them developed. I was curious to see how they turned out because I think the film I used was about as old as I am. Despite the discolorations, there really is something about film that I love.

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Figs

erin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:35:00 +0000

We have this wonderful, generous neighbor who has blessed us with as many figs from his garden as we can eat. He brought them over one day in a tin and whenever we finish them off, we bring the tin back and he returns it full.

He’s from Norway and keeps an amazing yard, especially for this [...]

Valiant

erin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:05:57 +0000

I think it was Meghan I was talking to the other day and she said that she wanted to see more pictures of Valiant. We actually had a little photo session the other day because I wanted to get some passport photos of him (there’s always a hope and a dream of travel for me.) Taking [...]

My Ideal Car

erin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:24:45 +0000

I saw this car at an autobody shop on the Hill. I’ve always dreamed of owning a British racing green convertible MG.

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The H Street Artist

erin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:12:51 +0000

One day a chair suspended high in the air on a pole appeared in a vacant lot near where I live. There was chatter on some of the blogs and everyone was asking where this mysterious chair had come from. Lately the chair has become part of an entire “exhibit” located in that vacant lot.

Apparently [...]

Tomato Festival

erin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:04:56 +0000

A big THANK YOU to our guest blogger today and good friend of Erin’s, Alison:

It was a weekend a year in the making. Anyone who has met Tim knows that it doesn’t take long before “The Tomato Festival” comes up. This is usually followed by, “you have to go.” After the 5th or 6th time [...]

My Birthday Weekend

erin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:31:31 +0000

For my birthday, Tim took me to one of our favorite breakfast/brunch places in DC. We ate outside in their walled-in patio with a parachute for a ceiling, and I ordered poached eggs on grits with bacon while Tim had the huevos rancheros. I fully intended to have their wonderful home-made yogurt and granola as a dessert but was [...]

Hashing

erin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:00 +0000

A friend and I were sitting on our front step having a glass of sangria the other evening when a few runners started to pass by the house. Soon the trickle turned to flood but they weren’t the typical stream-line, spandex-clad crowd. Some had dread locks and beards or were running in cargo pants, and [...]

Summer-Style Meat and Potatoes

erin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:17:15 +0000

I’m a little behind the curve with this menu but I wasn’t going to get the prize anyway, so here it is: my super-easy, fast, doesn’t-heat-up-the-house-too-much-in-summer recipe.

Gourmet Mashed Potatoes

6 potatoes

1 large sweet onion

1 stick butter

1 cup milk

1/2 package cream cheese

salt to taste

Get a large pot of water boiling. I leave the skins on my potatoes [...]

Bakery Tour

erin — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:27:55 +0000

The other night we left Valiant with a good friend for the evening and I promised him a field trip for the next day as a special treat. So yesterday we started the day with a bath and then I packed him up and went with a girlfriend and her daughter to visit a local bakery. Another [...]

erin — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:52:24 +0000

My tiny Edward Scissor Hands

My 3 am alarm

My constant entertainment

The monkey on my arm

He speaks a foreign tongue

Though native to my home

Becomes extremely eloquent

If he is left alone

Careless of another’s needs

The best manipulator

He can spin the act of taking a shower

Into the deeds of a traitor

I thought that I’d be smarter

But I believe the show

Starvation is around the corner

For someone who ate an [...]

What I’m Watching

erin — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:33:30 +0000

How many times have you gone to pick out a movie and wandered (or clicked) around aimlessly looking for something appealing, wishing you’d written down that suggestion you’d heard the other day. I finally started making myself a list so that when I got that twice a month urge to veg in front of the [...]

Two Weeks To Go

erin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:00:25 +0000

One of my girlfriends has been pestering me to take pregnancy photos for a while and we finally got around to doing it–probably none too soon since I’m due to pop any day now. I give her a big hand for being persistent. I’m not an easy subject– I’m awkward in a photo shoot and I [...]