Some Success

No sewing yesterday or today but not as a lapse in therapy. Yesterday we had friends over for dinner and I made an absolutely beautiful pair of pizzas making up for any lack of creativity in clothing. I followed the elaborate recipes in my favorite cookbook From the Earth to the Table and made a spiced pork pizza with basil mint pesto and a red potato, onion and brie pizza that was less pretty to look at but equally delicious. I take no credit for their success other than my dedication to the recipes, which both had about ten more steps than any other pizza recipe I have ever seen.

Today, we drove to Madras to explore central Oregon and meet up with my father in law who is working on a fish cage project to get the salmon over the dam...yeah there's probably a better way to explain that. We drove to government camp and scaled the snowbanks in the beautiful shadow of Mount Hood and then got back in the car and drove the second half of the trip to Madras where we were entirely too early so drove around the bizarre back roads of the high desert. James kept making comments like, "the only way this road ends is us getting murdered and never found again" and "all these power lines must be giving us cancer". It was all worth it though when we found this absolutely breathtaking overlook point looking over a lake at the bottom of a canyon with Mount Hood in the background. The boys ran around and collected rocks making me irrationally nervous every time they got anywhere near the rock wall marking the drop off to the canyon. I took a zillion pictures. We met up with papa (James' dad) at the Black Bear Diner, which was exactly the way it sounds and had breakfast for dinner. So it was a great day.

Oh, and I got two calls about my resume, which is like a zillion calls compared to all the days before today. Who knows if they will materialize into anything but it feels very good to be acknowledged in the job search world, like the gods of employment have looked down and said, "well hello there kate, yes we see you there." So no sewing. But positive attitude.