Slow day

Not much to report today. I didn’t spend a lot of time outside, because we had some training at the office all morning, and I spent the afternoon playing catch-up and trying to get the paper put together in half the time it usually takes to do that. It was a busy day — just the way I like it — but I was tired when I got home and just went to bed. I’ve been up too late too many nights in a row. Not tonight. I’m going to bed early so I can get up and run with Suzanne in the morning.

I did have time to run over to Billy Sims’ Barbecue in search of some chocolate cobbler during my lunch hour, but I came away disappointed: They have changed the dessert menu and are only serving brownies these days.

I am giving serious thought to launching a letter-writing campaign to get them to either bring back the chocolate cobbler or turn loose of the recipe so I can make it myself. If Mom still has her pudding cake recipe that made the brownie thing with all the goopy chocolate sauce around it, perhaps she would be so kind as to post it here. It tasted very similar to the chocolate cobbler.

Emily

Blue-eyed grass

Just when I think I know every square inch of my yard, it finds a new way to surprise me. This evening, I came home from work to find this mass of gorgeous little blue-violet flowers blooming next to the air conditioner.

I have never seen flowers like these before. They just appeared, out of nowhere, in the backyard today.

I just looked them up in my wild herb book and online, and I am pretty sure what I have here is blue-eyed grass. Breathtaking.

Hope your day held beautiful little surprises, too.

Emily