04.30.11

Had our first taste of Korean food at Green Pepper, and I was so excited to have miso soup:

04.29.11

Beautiful view just after sundown outside our house:

04.28.11

This is what our dog looks like mid-sneeze:

04.27.11

The 'Guins lost in the first round of the playoffs. Before Michael fully shaved his playoff beard, he momentarily had a moustache:

04.26.11

Made samosas for our elaborate home-cooked meal of April:

04.25.11

Warm weather means catching bugs on the back porch:

04.24.11

My mum still makes the most delicious Easter dinner:

04.23.11

We started our Stanley Cup Playoffs of Air Hockey tonight at FunFest in Harmarville:

04.22.11

Final fish fry of the 2011 Lenten season at Immaculate Conception church in Bloomfield:

04.21.11

Re-did the lighting in our ceiling fan, so I can actually read in bed. Lucy approves!

04.20.11

The Pens won game 4 in double overtime, from a goal by James Neal!! And somehow, the only two Miro Satan shirts remaining in the city wound up sitting next to each other (that's me on the right, and our friend Jim on the left).

04.19.11

Lucy puffed out her shoulders so she could look like her doggy crush, Jonny Justice:

04.18.11

The moon was full and huge tonight!

04.17.11

Today the weather was nice, so I worked in the garden for a long time. Lucy wanted to be out with the family, so we tethered her on the porch, where she enjoyed the smells and sights of the backyard!

04.16.11

Stormy weather conditions make for some beautiful skies. This was taken just before sunset in East Liberty:

04.15.11

I couldn't let a Lenten season go by without stopping at the home of the best church pierogies! This is St. Vladimir's in Ambridge, my family's church (where the basement smells like my great-grandmother's kitchen all the time, yum!):

04.14.11

I've been working on a scrapbook from our trip to the West Coast in March:

04.13.11

Lucy got a brand new toy called the 'Nobbly Wobbly'. She loves it. It is very bouncy.

04.12.11

And back to Lawrenceville for drinks with some friends at New Amsterdam:

04.11.11

We attended our first Pittsburgh Taste Buds wine exchange, which was a lot of fun. Kaleidoscope Cafe is awesome!

04.10.11

Husband and puppy get to sleep in while I go to work:

04.09.11

I spent my Saturday night at Walmart, complete with a fannypack purchase (for logical use during the half marathon):

04.08.11

Another Friday, another fish fry. This one was at St. Matthew's in Lawrenceville:

04.07.11

Buccos home opener against the Rockies!! The Buccos lost, but it was still a beautiful day for baseball:

04.06.11

Had dinner at Double Wide Grill on the South Side. Portabella mushroom sandwiches are hard to find in this city, but they did it quite well:

04.05.11

Lucy got into Daddy's shoe while he was out tonight...



(Clearly she feels very sorry.)

04.04.11

Got a new book about the old, abandoned, supposedly haunted insane asylum that was about 10 minutes away from my house while I was growing up. Fascinating stuff!

04.03.11

I love watching storms roll in from my office window. I have a perfect view of the sky over the houses!

04.02.11

We tried Ethiopian food for the first time at Abay in East Liberty. Overall assessment was weird, but yummy:

04.01.11

Third Lenten fish fry of the season was at Holy Angels Church, which is in the middle of nowhere (listed as 'Hays'). Most amazing fish of recent memory: