Good Stuff

The other day Aaron and I started talking about maybe FINALLY putting in a backyard sometime in the fall. Nothing fancy, but some grass and maybe an extended patio so we can eat under the stars if we want. And hopefully a couple fruit trees because there is NOTHING like a warm, ripe orange or peach fresh off the tree.

And ever since we had that conversation I can't stop dreaming about my backyard. I've been imagining dinner parties on the patio with a pretty tablecloth and twinkle lights and barbeque chicken and lemonade. And ways I can disguise our A/C unit.

I stopped by the thrift store down the road today in the vain hope that they might have a wheat grinder or pressure canner for cheap and instead found these:

Two beautifully simple carafes for 99 cents apiece. So I bought them, of course, because what ELSE would I be putting that lemonade in when our supposed backyard finally gets done?

I was also hoping to find a ravioli cutter while I was there. But after a half-hearted dig through the massive box of random kitchen implements I gave up. An old man was also digging through, much more methodically than I was, and asked what I was looking for. I told him and then left to look through the children's books. I came back a few minutes later and he had found and set aside a 29 cent ravioli cutter for me.

I love nice people! And dreaming about my backyard. Oh, the possibilities!

(you know I'll blog about it in great depth whenever we actually do it. Be prepared)