Going Home To A New House

A couple of weeks ago I went home to visit my parents and friends in Bend, OR. My parents have just finished renovating an old craftsman style bungalow from the 20s and I was super excited to see it. It was totally the best! I am so happy that "we" now live there!!! The house is super cute and has an amazing garden with tons of flowers and edibles. So basically this post is going to be a bunch of photos from the new house. Here we goooo....

So many yummy things you could eat right out of the garden.

The amazing fence my dad designed an built all by himself!

Weird conjoined twins tomato.

The kitchen is extra lovely. It has a great apron front farmhouse sink which I love, but of course forgot to take a photo of.

"My" bathroom, one of my favorite rooms.

Lemonade sold to us by little girls down the street (they guilted us into it by saying all the money went to saving elephants), I added the lavender and maybe just a splash of vodka.

Another one for the freak show.

Mm mm, egg in the hole breakfast with tomatoes and raspberries picked right from the garden.

And that pretty much sums up the wonderfulness of my trip home. Bend is so nice in the summer it is always tempting to want to stay, but I just remind myself that winter is coming (to quote the Starks) and then I am happy to come back here to AZ and another two months of summer!

Lewis And Other Happenings

Meet Lewis:

Lewis is a caterpillar. He seems mild-mannered, but if you try to pet him watch out....

He gets a bit miffed. 

Now Lewis looks like this:

I am taking good care of him and hopefully someday he will turn into a beautiful butterfly (black swallowtail I have discovered). Updates on Lewis to come.

Other things that have happened while I haven't been updating this semester. I already mentioned that I just graduated.

We also moved. We still live in Tucson, just in a different house. I love our new place, it is super roomy with crazy amounts of storage and cupboards. Everything is a bit outdated and retro in kind of an ugly cute way. And there are both a walled in front entry and an enclosed porch and walled back yard. The front area has an orange tree and a lovely bougainvillea! Oh also one of the best parts is it has three bedrooms. That means one for sleeping, one for Mister B, and one for me! I love having my own little room to hide out in and decorate however I please. I am hoping to take pictures of all my favorite bits of the house to share, but here is a picture of Mal in the front with the bougainvillea.

Since I no longer have school I have also just started to have time to garden. I will be posting pictures of all my little baby sproutlings soon.

It sure is good to be back folks!