For dinner we made a mad dash for our local Chuy’s — before the thundering hoards arrived.
The walls in much of the restaurant are covered in the art of Ralfka Gonzalez, an artist from nearby San Antonio.
This is just a sampling.
I like the painting with the phases of the moon at the bottom; especially because tonight the moon is about 98% full. Friday at 2:30 AM Central time it will be the Full Snow Moon.
I’ll just pretend it wasn’t 72 degrees here today 🙂
Ok, well, not really movie night.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow is a 3-day special version of Jeopardy (the game show) featuring an IBM computer called Watson playing against 2 former Jeopardy champs.
So we sat down with a bowl of popcorn to watch. Watson kicked butt tonight. Amazing.
Happy Valentine’s Day!! ♥
My valentine gave me beautiful roses, and chocolate covered strawberries which we shared this afternoon. I took a few pics of them. But when I saw the shape of the baguette slices that we ate with lunch, I couldn’t resist posting this shot of one of them.
A perfect moment for a day celebrating love and those you love. 🙂
Monte brought home some snow crab leg clusters from the grocery this morning. We just had them for lunch and they were delicious.
He learned an easy, excellent way to re-heat already cooked and previously frozen crab legs from an Alton Brown episode. They turn out moist and warm, and did I say it was easy? If you like crablegs too, you should try it:
EZ Snowcrab legs for 2
– 2 clusters of unfrozen snowcrab legs (about 8 ounces each)
– Wrap clusters completely in damp paper towels
– Cook on high in microwave for 3 mins
– Dump out on butcher paper (careful, it’s HOT)
– Crack open and dip in whatever floats your boat
Enjoy!
At long last, it is SPA DAY! It was beautiful today. Sunny and clear.
I’m a lucky girl — my girlfriends gave me a gift certificate to the spa for my birthday. So today Lori, Laura and I enjoyed a much deserved day of beauty.
Afterwards we met up with Irene at the Steiner Ranch Steakhouse. Their deck overlooks Lake Travis and my favorite Hill Country. We stayed long enough to watch the sunset and feel the temps drop like a rock.
It’s FRIDAY!! Looking forward to the weekend.
I took a walk out back after work today. The sky was beautifully clear, and the moon was high in the sky.
The tree is one of the red oaks in the way back. It’s amazing to see some of the leaves have hung on in all the recent high winds.
I can feel the days getting longer and see the buds on the tree branches starting to swell…. It’s right around the corner!
This little rock (that’s a dime in the background to get a sense of its size) was in a baggie on the kitchen counter this morning.
It is our very own meteorite.
For the roofing project last weekend, we bought one of those large magnetic sweepers on a stick that roofers use to pick up stray nails off the ground. It was actually amazing to see all the seemingly invisible nails that it would find. (We’ll have to remember to bring this to the lake with us this summer, maybe we’ll be able to dredge up that fishing pole of Kurt’s that was dropped in the lake…)
Anyway, on one of the sweeps it brought up this tiny pebble – which monte declared to be a meteorite. Hmmm. Maybe.
This is the only shot I snapped today. We’ll put this one in the boring column.
Okay, technically, there was one other shot, but it was taken a bit too close and the lens was all fogged up from the steam rising off the coffee filter.
Boring or not, it is a moment I look forward to every day. Using these Melitta cones takes a little more work than an automatic coffee maker but they make a great cup of coffee!
Nothing says Superbowl Sunday like a cup of cocoa!
Big day at the homestead. As monte said…. we assembled a crack crew of computer professionals to reroof the little garden shed out back.
I couldn’t resist taking this shot of said hard-working crew with the laptop in the foreground. They were able to get the wireless all the way in the way-back so that they could google DIY how-to’s for installing shingles. 🙂
We’ve turned off the water to the house for now. We’ll have to wait till everything thaws out.
This is why I don’t complain when it hits 105 degrees in Central Texas. 😮
Brrrrr. We’ve been in the deep freeze. Day 3 of temperatures in the teens and 20’s.
Fire in the hearth. We’re cozy at home.
Well, today’s post is not a photo that I took, but it’s a screen shot from a movie I made this morning (you can check it out here)!
xtranormal is a website/tool that you can use to create movies using animated characters. You pick the characters and setting, supply the script, and direct the characters in the scene. You may have seen some of the humorous animated videos created with xtranormal on the web. I have, and just wanted to try it out for myself.
When you create an account you get 300 xtranormal points for free that you can spend on your set/scene and to publish it… that was just enough to cover my first attempt…. I call it…… “Welcome to my blog” 🙂
February 1st ?!! Yikes, 8.5 percent of 2011 is over already!
Well, the cold front has arrived. I woke up to temps in the low 30’s and that’s about as warm as it will be for a couple days.
I’m happy to report that the window shades and curtains in the gameroom seem to be working. The temp in the gameroom was the same as the rest of the house… for the first time on a cold winter day. (yay!)
Even with the shades and curtains, this room still gets a ton of light in the daytime, with the skylights. The houseplants in the gameroom love it.
This is an ivy plant from a basket my mom sent me for my birthday several months back. So far so good.
Well, tonight I went out to dinner with friends, and meant to bring my camera to get some shots of downtown Austin at night, but I left it behind.
So, you get the ivy shot instead 😉
Sheila365 