Campari – Orangette https://orangette.net Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:55:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 July 29 https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-29/ https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-29/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:38:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/july-29 Today is our eighth wedding anniversary. It’s also the 11th birthday of this blog, the first day of our first-ever corporate tax audit, and the day that my mother officially moves to Seattle. It’s a lot of Big Adult Stuff, and I have lots of feelings, including immense gratitude for our accountant. But most of all, I’m glad that these two wide-eyed pups, the ones in this shot circa 2007, decided to take the great leap that is marriage, that they’ve kept at it, showing up, cooking, eating, building, building some more, figuring it out, duking it out, and loving, loving, for eight whole years. And I’m glad that this blog made it all happen. Thanks for being along for…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/07/july-29/feed/ 43 Bottoms up https://orangette.net/2013/08/bottoms-up/ https://orangette.net/2013/08/bottoms-up/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:51:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/bottoms-up I planted about a half dozen plants back in late May, and I don’t know how to explain it, but they’re not dead yet.  It’s difficult to describe how much that satisfies me.  I am not a gardener by any stretch of anything, but I noticed the other morning, as I was puttering around (in a pair of old bagged-out maternity leggings and a tank top that I accidentally cut a giant hole in and can now only wear for puttering), watering the plants with my Hario coffee kettle (because I have no watering can, and because I keep forgetting to buy one, and because I am obviously a very, very classy person), that it gives me inordinate pleasure to watch plants…

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