We’re dining with friends and celebrating family birthdays this weekend. I’m hoping to burn off some of the calories from those dinners with yard projects.
I hope that you are able to enjoy some outside time this weekend.
- The NRA is Protecting Dangerous Men. It’s Time to Close the “Boyfriend Loophole.” — We continue to have to fight to protect women.
- There is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did it Anyway. — Makes me want to book an Amtrak trip right now.
My husband, who likes to talk about fog rain, will enjoy the author’s use of pogonip, which is winter fog with frozen ice particles. - The Many Ways to Say “I Love You” — Check out the comments too.
- What is it about saying I love you in another language? It seems so romantic!
I’ve just started an Italian class, so I appreciated the following comment on the post mentioned above.
I’ve been dating an Italian man for a few very amazing months. When we both started to feel the itch, there was a very convenient segue way to say “I love you”– “Ti voglio bene” — which in Italian is used for family & friends to say “I love you” and is a step behind “Ti amo” (which we now say, and is romantic “I love you”). I really appreciated the ability to have that step to express the evolution of our relationship and feelings. - Cooking with Patrick O’Brian — Valerie Stivers makes recipes from O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels. Plum duff or cabinet pudding anyone?
- From Love & Lemons, 16 Recipes to Welcome Spring. Yum!
- Speaking of yummy things, give this Chocolate Banana Bread a try.
- Goodness: Lady Gaga spoke out for mental health awareness and helping those in need in her Grammy award acceptance speech. (Somewhat old news, but worth sharing.)
About the photo: Cheerful daffodils in a pottery vase.