A Little of This and A Little of That

It's nice to have a week (actually 9 days) straight at home. I came home to find that Wife had been baking up a storm. A new version of white bread (not as good as the recipe she used before) and a whole wheat bread with oatmeal and honey, which is actually just a very good whole wheat bread. I have to credit to daughter MotherRocker for Wife's baking renaissance (she did lots of bread baking when the kids were young. MR is a fabulous baker and posts about her efforts frequently. So I think that has gotten Wife's creative juices flowing. So in our house we have a designated MR as the patron saint of bread baking and have set up an appropriate little alter where we leave offerings that would be pleasant in the eyes of the saint (smoky bacon, crisp bits of chicken or duck skin, lovely french fries - we know our saint).
The weather hasn't been quite nice enough to really take advantage of the patio. It's been windy most nights.
We're gearing up for granite purchasing. I've taken Friday afternoon off so we can go look at slabs. One of gay friends was over looking at some of the samples and quicky pronounced them, "boring, dead on arrival". Another MRism, "when it comes to home decoration you have to trust your gay friends." This certainly proved true for our living room. So we'll take a deep breath and head out to the granite show room.
I know middle daughter Pulisha can't wait for her pregnancy to be over but it has been a source of incredibly mirthful writing.