birding, photography and living with pet birds
Posted in conservation on Aug 28th, 2015
This is pepper season! Peppers taste best in my opinion when they’re stuffed with cheese, but they’re also pretty good stuffed with rice or vegan sausage. (1) Chiles Rellenos I’ve had chiles rellenos in restaurants before and I wasn’t impressed. But making this at home was life changing. The anaheim peppers are stuffed with cheddar cheese […]
Ava’s personality is really developing. She has a new obsession with shoes. It started a few weeks ago when she insisted on wearing red velvet shoes that I had bought her for Christmas. They barely fit, but they looked so cute! Ava also enjoys going through her diaper bag. She’s so nosy! I bought Ava more […]
Posted in Ava on Aug 20th, 2015
I am loving this job, but boy are they giving me a ton of work! I’ve been working more at night, which means fewer blog posts. Fortunately it hasn’t affected our weekend Ava time. Since Ava knows more words for animals than anything else (bird, duck, Teddy, kitty, moo, sss for snake, doo for […]
Posted in Ava on Aug 11th, 2015
This girl! She deserves a true update. There have been so many changes in this past month. Independence/Motor Skills Ava can go down a straight slide by herself. Yesterday she slid down the slide by herself six times. One of the times she finished sliding, she took three steps on her own. I will […]
Posted in conservation on Aug 9th, 2015
In addition to kale, we have a ton of zucchini from a single plant in our garden and squash from the CSA. Zucchini has been heavily featured in dinners for the past month. I have a top five list of favorite zucchini dishes too. And! I took a couple of pictures. I actually had to […]
Ava is making great progress in the steps towards walking. She’s getting better at using her walker. She can change its direction now. She will take a few steps while holding only one hand. Lastly, she can go from sitting to standing, back to sitting again without any assistance. For Jon’s birthday last week, […]
Posted in conservation on Aug 2nd, 2015
Between our garden and our CSA, we have so much kale that I serve it at least once a day. Saturday was a record because I had a kale smoothie for breakfast and a kale salad for lunch. I think kale is a magical substance because I don’t get hungry after I eat it. During […]
