A taste of home...

I'm not sure why I get so excited when I make cookies, but here I am, soooo excited about my oatmeal raisin cookies! I've mastered our fan oven, and the result was wonderful wonderful cookies. They taste just right!


I'm also pretty excited about the heather that's seemed to suddenly appear on the moors behind our house. I guess I got a little heather happy and I've been out back to cut heather for the house a few times in the past week. It's just so pretty and it seems to last for a long time inside.

vintage fabric?

I just purchased an old sheet and pillowcase from the local charity shop (for you guys back home, that's a thrift store), and have just discovered through my frivolous internet surfing that I didn't really just buy an old sheet and pillowcase. I bought vintage fabric today! Put the word vintage in front of anything and it just sounds so much better doesn't it. But really, that's pretty cool I think.

This past weekend was flea market weekend in Doniphan County, KS and to counteract my feelings of missing out, I went to the closest thing to a flea market that I could find on Lewis (and on a Monday). The Charity Shop! Fun stuff, I also bought a bowl and got to speak some Gaelic. Nice.

A rainbowy day?

Yes, I realize that rainbowy may not be a correct spelling, but I'm pretty sure that the word doesn't exist anyway...wait, let me check...ha! It is a word and I've spelled it correctly, so there!

Anyway, the day that I actually started this post I saw 5 rainbows! I got pics of a couple of them and thought I'd share them. They aren't the most magnificent ones that I've seen here, but I'm not picky when it comes to rainbows.

Proof:
Anyway, rainbows are all well and good, but I meant to blog about my recent travels. So here goes...

After Amsterdam I went to Germany for some meetings and got to see the Alps! I took way too many pictures to post here, but here are a couple, just to give you a sense of what it was like.

The old meets new!

A little bit of home...

Our hotel!

Anyway, I had a great time and am planning to go back at some point. I had no idea how much I would like Germany and how much it would remind me of the States. If you want to have a taste of Bavaria, go to Vail Colorado. I know that sounds wrong, but really, the feel is pretty much the same.