(i need to hog the blog for a moment to send out a group letter to someone. i apologize. regular blogging will resume tomorrow-ish.)

dear bill:
we apologize for leaving you at the brewery tonight. but it was so hot and stuffy. and it smelled like feet. we couldn’t take it.

but we made an important discovery and fell in love. that’s right, we’ll say it, - we love PCT and think we should move the group there.

we had one of the best restaurant veggie burgers ever, there were grapes on the pizza and the wings were made of real chicken:

we chowed down:


and our waitress was super wonderful.

so, we are thinking we should go there again next tuesday.
everyone is welcome! look, there’s even a tv:

and a long table:

so what do you think?
pretty please, with s’mores on top?

it’s warming up a bit around here and the outdoors are calling.

seen in our front yard recently, a bright shot of purple:

some deep greens:

and some black:

we got a grill on freecycle today! it works great and just needed a little cleaning.

i’m a person who loves winter, but i have to say, even i am excited for spring.

in knitting news, i finally finished all of the seaming on the toy i knit for my knit group’s charity project:

the pieces were each super quick to make, but there was soooo much finishing. being sick and having pink eye didn’t help the sewing get done at all. but after it was all done up, i fell in love! this little dinosaur is so cute and the perfect size to hug. it’s hard to give it up, but i know a little kid in need will love it more than me.

whip up some cake batter and pour:

instant chocolate cake:

and not just any cake…waffle-cakes!

on sunday, we swung by the open house for the new co-op that will be opening soon in town. it is still under construction:

but they wanted to let people see the progress. especially since it has been in the works, and faced many setbacks, for 10 years:

luckily we’ve only had to wait one year since first hearing about it. and now it is finally going to happen. at the open house there was a final push to get people to join the co-op:

and we did!

it was funny because it felt like it was the place to see and be seen this weekend. there was a huge crowd. tom and i probably know less than 15 people in this town, and most were there. every one of the locals was meeting and greeting.

apparently when you start blogging again, blog-worthy stuff starts happening! who knew it was a cause and effect thing?

case in point - look what the mailman left on my front step today:

a gorgeous pink box!

the label on it says “Liz Lovely,” and i didn’t know what that meant until i took a peek inside and saw:

a big assortment of vegan cookies!!!

as it turns out, liz lovely is a bakery making yummy things while trying to make as little impact on the planet as possible. and they do it from vermont. what could be more perfect?

thank you so much, christina and pat. now i can’t wait for dinner to be finished tonight so i can dig into dessert!

a very good question! i’m not quite sure of the answer.

i have heard, loud and clear, from quite a few people, that leaving a waffle-related post up for over two weeks is not enough to keep everyone entertained. (but it’s about waffles! how can you grow tired of waffles?) fair enough.

so, here i am. getting back in the habit of posting on the blog. a quick look through recent photos on my computer makes me wonder just what has been going on in life around here. apparently nothing camera-worthy. while there has been no blogging, there has also been very little picture taking.

i think that part of the problem is that i have yet to figure out how to knit and blog at the same time. unfortunately, both hobbies seem to use both of my hands. and while i can normally commit enough time to blogging and knitting, i have been facing some wacky knitting deadlines, both work-related and personal. i was a bit in over my head in yarn. but those deadlines have passed and i would show you the results, but again…there are no pics. odd.

i promise to try to do better moving forward.