It’s New Flower Time

My second gardening round of the year is complete. It was an awesome day for it. It’s 65 degrees outside and the wild, cool pre-storm breeze is blowing. I found the most gorgeous Dahlias at the store. I don’t usually like Dahlias, but I couldn’t pass these up. I also got a Osteospermum (Cape Daisy), Star Flower, and Chrysanthemum.

Lucky Train Cake

A few months ago Jordan’s sister and step father stopped by our offices and brought with them an amazing piece of culinary art work. They had actually created a train cake, complete with various candy and snack cargo, cars brightly colored with icing, chocolate train tracks, and popcorn smoke. It was extremely impressive and must have taken hours of painstaking work. Sadly, none of us could bring ourselves to eat it, although the cargo was certainly sampled. I had to preserve it on (digital) film for posterity.

There Be Dragons

One of Brett’s former co-workers, when he worked at Gazillion, had an impressive collection of model dragons. The first time I visited Brett’s office over a year ago, I saw them on his desk and stared at them with fascination and envy in my heart. A couple of months before Brett left Gazillion, the owner of said dragons left, and left behind part of his collection. I was at Brett’s office after he left, and one of Brett’s co-workers mentioned that he didn’t work there anymore. I said, “But, his dragons are still here…” The guy said, “Yeah, he took the ones he wanted and said the rest were up for grabs.” I couldn’t believe it, “Really??! Why would he do that?” “I dunno, but help yourself.” I ended up taking two of them. I really like dragons and these models are really well done. They are now adorning the top of the bookshelf in my bedroom. I love the way they look down on me when I’m laying in bed.