In My Garden

 These are pictures of flowers in my garden taken over the past month - except the last one, which shows our cherries developing.  Go cherries!

Step By Step Part Two

 Here's Anne's step block as I got it.  Lots of things to work with.  Below is what it looked like after I was done.  I hope she likes the additions.

For The Birds

Evidently it was too cold for us to see this the first time we went to Kvint.  It's a bird cage full of singing birds.  Poor things!  At least they seem to have a lot of room.

Being A Regular

 When you go pretty much weekly to the same restaurant, over time they get to know you.  That's what has happened to us with Pizzeria Caruso.  They've noticed, for example, that Andreas doesn't eat as much tomato or cucumber as he does cheese and olives in his salad - and that he doesn't eat the onions at all.  So... they've started making his shop salad the way he likes it, without him asking.  Talk about customer service!  They've also let us ad and subtract pizza toppings.  For example, Andreas' diavolo now has olives on it.  It's also kind of neat to be able to walk into a restaurant and say "the usual" with the waiter knowing exactly what you mean!

Begin The Border

I'm on the last major portion of this, yay!  It's the outer border, which is squares filled with stitches.  

Bottling At Kvint

 After the fortress at Tighina, we went to the Kvint distillery in Tiraspol.  Here are some pictures of the bottling process.  They were doing the bottling as we went through this time.  It was interesting (if loud) to watch.  A lot more handwork than usual.

Making A Branch

Both the branch and the peacock got some work done this time.  The branch is coming down in a new direction, so it's interesting to work on.