Hello hello friends i hope you're well and having a beautiful start to your day
and your week i've had a computer heavy morning just getting some editing out of
the way and some other computer work which we'll need to spend more time in the office later this
afternoon but i wanted to say hello i baked some sourdough this morning which smells so fabulous
if i do say so myself it just really creates a beautiful scent in our home so that's exciting
and we have some friends coming over later for homemade pasta night which we haven't done
in probably a month or two we were really on a kick for a while making it every single week but
we have that later so soon i want to make some homemade
pesto because we have so much basil in the garden so we can prep that ahead of time so i'm not
have too much to do um to prepare for dinner so we'll do that soon and some
other home and work stuff but i'm looking forward to spending time with you all
okay here's how our pesto turned out it is kind of chunky unfortunately because i don't have a
food processor so i use the blender which i typically use
to do stuff like this but since the amount i put in there wasn't really
dense enough for the blender it was kind of underneath the blade if that makes sense so
yeah i think i might try to add more basil and do a second batch and maybe that'll help it but i
could also use a fork or mortar and pestle to kind of crunch the pine nuts a bit more and blend it
i don't know to be determined but it smells fabulous it's time for a iced coffee break and
i mentioned this a few vlogs ago but i've been trying out a bottomless portafilter this is what
it looks like so essentially there's no spouts on the bottom like our other portafilter let me
show you side by side again so it's completely bottomless which can make for a more complex and
beautiful pull in your espresso but it also takes some finesse so i haven't had any luck in making
a beautiful pull so i'm still trying to figure it out but my friend on here alex she suggested
this filter so i ordered it and essentially you put this on top i guess it just helps filter
the water to be more evenly distributed so we'll give it a try and hope for the best but worst case
scenario i have some leftover morning coffee so we can just have that instead if it doesn't work out
oh nope so chaotic still very chaotic i don't know oh no that's so sad look at the mess
oh my looks like a crime scene sheesh
okay but there is a better crema this time so maybe we're getting a little closer
at least the coffee is still super tasty maybe i'll get the bottomless portafilter
down someday but i feel as though it might be my bean freshness that's a possibility or it could be
my grind size but i have it on the finest grind setting on my on my uh coffee bean grinder so
i really don't know but we're gonna persevere we're gonna keep trying but i'm just gonna sip
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so
good morning good morning it is friday and we have a beautiful friday planned
i woke up i woke up today just so excited and the sun is shining i'm feeling really good so i'm
really thankful for that and last night was super fun we played games we ate pasta we've just really
curated a beautiful week with the plans that we've had so i'm really just so thankful for that and
i showed you this morning the caterpillars if you've missed it i have been trying to raise
caterpillars monarch butterfly caterpillars or monarch caterpillars i guess you would say and
it's been such an exciting adventure i check on them every morning and i change out their little
home with leaves and everything so that has been really exciting i'll keep you updated
but i have a net coming this weekend that i'm going to transfer them over to because right now
they're in mason jars but i'll transfer them over to this net with a whole milkweed plant
which milkweed is their host plant anyways i could talk about these caterpillars for hours i just
find them so incredibly fascinating so it's been a little science project over here but i showed you
a peek of how they're doing this morning but today so for the morning and early afternoon
gotta get some work done of course wrap it up for the weekend and there is one home project
i want to do so i ordered a new living room rug because our current living room rug has
been through the ringer we got it right when palmer was a puppy or right before and you know
a puppy and a rug it's just not a match made in heaven it's it's seen better days
and i actually ordered the same rug it's just bigger and newer which brandon was like why
would you order the same rug if it's falling apart but i really do believe it's a great rug it's just
yeah it's just seen better days so we're going to do a rug refresh and basically i want to clear
the whole living room i i kind of have to but once we clear the living room i want to vacuum
excuse me vacuum and mop the living room because i never do that under the rug because
it's incredibly inconvenient so we'll go ahead and do that while we have the opportunity and
get that out of the get that out of the way i've had the rug sitting in my office for
about a week now i've kind of been putting it off because it is a little daunting of a hassle but
it'll it'll be worth it fresh freshen up the space a bit but that's sort of the plan for this morning
and then this afternoon and evening we are going to have a persuasion picnic and watch party so
i'm going over to my friend lisa's house and we are gonna go to trader joe's get some flowers and
we're gonna set this cute picnic scene and we're gonna watch persuasion which is a jane austen it's
based off of the jane austen novel which i have been reading i'm only about a third of the way
through i'm really hoping to finish today i've been listening to it on the audiobook as well as
the physical book i've just been bouncing back and forth but the audiobook is great because while i'm
doing everything in the living room this morning and setting up the new rug i can listen to it so
hopefully i'll be able to finish before tonight i still have a bit to go i might need to notch up
the speed of the audiobook but that's the plan i'm really looking forward to it and after the picnic
we'll watch the movie that came out on netflix based off of the novel so that's the rundown of
today but i'm really looking forward to it and excited to spend some more time with you all
do
i got ready a little bit i'm gonna do my eye makeup and everything later and i just heat up
some leftover pasta yum yum yum i never updated you on the basil it just turned out very chunky
i was never able to blend it super well and make it all small and like traditional basil but the
flavor so good i definitely want to do that more often i've kind of forgot i keep saying basil i
meant to say pesto i keep forgetting about making pesto but with all the basil we have
out in the garden it's definitely something that should be a weekly occurrence i believe
do
i'm home it is midnight we just finished watching the movie
i don't know like 15 minutes ago i fell asleep while watching persuasion which i feel so silly
i just was so comfy i yeah but from what i saw i enjoyed it i will be watching it again because
i want to watch it in its entirety and i still i didn't finish the book but i absolutely want
to as well because i want to see how accurate it was to the book and everything like that but
it was a really sweet day we had such a beautiful picnic and just time together so i'm really
really thankful and so thankful for you all i really hope you're having a beautiful day
and i hope you have a beautiful rest of your week and i cannot wait to see you next bye
you