memorial weekend

the other day girl brought home her first kill: a tennis ball. as you can see it's only slightly smaller than her head. she carried it inside, walked around with it, showed it off, then played with it for a while.

for memorial day we went to my co-worker emily's barbeque in the park for a little bit and then headed off to muir woods to meet up with george's cousin iran, her husband anu, and two of their friends from iceland.



today i did all sorts of fascinating errands and cleaning and belated birthday present sending and of course: baking! chocolate chip cookies (from my new favorite book, baking illustrated), high protein bread (the amazing manghis' recipe), and grape nut muffins (from the enchanted broccoli forest).



now george and i are patiently waiting for dyani's pretty-delayed plane to arrive at 1am by rearranging the house and putting up bookshelves and watching a movie. dyani'll be here for a whole week! we'll be going up to davis to find her an apartment, biking into the city to bike into the city, and heading to the beach because it's been seventy and sunny for the past two weeks so why wouldn't we go to the beach?