I’ve been spending the week getting up at 5 am and, because my brain is wrecked by my day job this week for anything creative,
Author: joannemerriam

Perfected this recipe to my tastes yesterday, but it’s not really a crumble anymore since I put all the oats on the bottom (I like

Mural progress: the foreground trees have trunks that looks like trunks now! I have a few more layers of progressively darker purples to add but

It’s hard to hear, since Alan was in the living room and I was in the home office, but Alan was playing Stardew Valley and
Amused that half of the wild turkeys in our backyard earlier today opted to use the trail we’ve been working on.

The foreground tree trunks are starting to have some texture and the smaller of them has branches now.

Doesn’t include items read for work. The Agatha Christies also represent hours spent painting, since I listen to those as audiobooks while working on the

Similar to the crumble I made last weekend, but bananas instead of butter, since I didn’t feel like making banana bread and needed to use
A few seconds of Mean Girls in the background.

The background is basically done now, though there’s a fiddly bit above the leftmost tree that I need to fill in with more leaves. I’ve