27 July 2008
The Fleur de Lis; a symbol steeped in antiquity. Also, a symbol that appears throughout my house in a variety of forms. The Fleur de Lis appears in my personal coat of arms, and thus in the marshalled coat that my wife & I share. I’m not sure which came first, MB’s love of the symbol, or the marshalled coat of arms. Either way, she’s adopted it almost as a person sigil and as mentioned before it appears in many nooks and crannies of my life. This is a candle holder in the bedroom.

Cheers.

~KR (Written on 1 August 2008 )

Listening to:
Wuthering Heights by White Flag
from Freedom of Choice

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Software: picnik.com

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1 August 2008

Another week has flown by.  We are about to enter our fifth weekend of Bristol!  I can hardly believe it.

A fairly typical Friday, my day looked like this:  sewing; email; laundry; errands; lunch at El Sarape with Susabella and Kelly; more errands; talking to Mama; gardening; unpacking new product from California; another errand; dinner with Delaenya and Kelly; beading and rim setting on a special order underskirt, while I watched an old Errol Flynn movie (set in Elizabethan times!); then finally a shower, and here I am at nearly three a.m.  I don’t do it on purpose, really I don’t!

My photo today is of the sky, during the sunset (also beautiful, in the opposite direction) as Kelly and Delaenya and I exited the Hobby Lobby on our way to Chili’s. 

~MB

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31 July 2008

This adorable photo is of our dear friends Maron and Meredith Wong and their two little boys, Rafael, 6, and Sebastian, 4.  This was the scene just moments before it was time for goodbyes.  The boys had been playing downstairs all evening, and this was part of the bedtime dance—pile on Mommy and proceed to pretend to be asleep, rather than deal with meeting all those adults!  Actually, I’m not entirely sure they didn’t actually fall asleep like that, ’cause when carried off to bed, there was far less argument than I expected!

Tonight was the Second Annual (we hope!) Cuban Feast!  Meredith makes a mean Ropa Vieja dish and the black beans were perfect as well.  Maron and Meredith had invited not only myself and Kat this year, but Kelly and Sean and Amber, as well.  And their long-time friends Mike and Patricia, who I hadn’t seen in many years, were there also.  So, it was a delightful evening of fellowship and food. 

And, yes, to Rick and any others out there thinking it . . . I do like to eat!  Tonight I forgot to take a photo of the food, but I did shoot a quick picture of the table at the end of the evening!

The earlier part of the day was spent working:  sewing, cutting, and dealing with the missing FedEx package.  It was a good day, much was accomplished, and tomorrow I have only one more project to finish with a deadline of this weekend. It’s good that it’s been a productive week, since I won’t be here next week. I  am getting really excited about going home, again!

~MB

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