For some time now Spun has been asking me to weld a C-table for us. This weekend I finally had the opportunity to do so. With a couple dozen feet of 1/2″ square steel tubing, a gorgeous piece of cambia poplar from Crosscut Hardwoods in SODO, and a bit of some blue epoxy to fill in the board splits and channels made with a router, we were off to the races … or rather couch with this awesome new addition to the living room.

It’s super stable when pulled up flush to the couch and makes for an excellent side table when we don’t have beverages or small plates to share. Based on how well this fusion of wood and steel went I’m thinking I need to replace the gigantic slab of cold rolled steel we have for our current coffee table. Having to move it daily for Kinect exercising is half the work out. Hopefully we’ll get another free weekend to dream up the next addition to the house!

For some time now we’ve been promising our vegetarian attendees of the Supper Club that we’ll devote a night just to them. What better day to do it than Earth Day, right?

As it turns out, we had all omnivores at the party, no veggies. However, that didn’t stop us from having some great food … mostly desserts actually.

The Farm and Potato Bleu Cheese pizzas from Flying Squirrel Pizza, veggie lasagna, a reconstructed edamame purée with micro greens and tiny tomatoes, pea “flan” with oyster mushrooms were the mains. For dessert we had a Momofuko sugar butter bomb that was so sweet we had to cut it with … yes … chocolate cheesecake. A lovely strawberry shortcake trifle, some super tasty baked blackberry deliciousness, a palette cleansing traditional Polish poppyseed cake.

All in all, it was delicious and sweet tooths were definitely satiated. I have to say, we did alright though I think some of the actual vegetarians would claim that this isn’t actually “standard vegetarian fare.”

If you attended, please paste a link to your recipe or just throw it inline in the comments below so that others can enjoy.

There are times when the world looks really bleak … more bleak than a few weeks of Seattle gray strung together like an antique necklace which hasn’t aged well. Then there are brilliant pops of sun that show up allowing you the light to see the patina and history of the necklace, giving it new life and character.

Monday was that day. My cousin was in town and he brought the sunshine we all needed to take our blue tinted lenses and turn them rosy. Spring is here and with it brings new life, opportunities and a fresh start.

Trust that this will happen and the rest will fall into place.

Before I started drinking when I was 28, I drank a ton of Shirley Temples. Pitchers of them in fact.

When we were in New York back in October a long lost friend took us to a hole in the wall place called Employees Only. In front, there’s a psychic. Behind a velvet curtain and an unassuming front is a phenomenal speak easy. EO pours some of the most amazing drinks I’ve ever had, including the best Manhattan in Manhattan. Another drink on their menu is the Lady Shirley, which with a splash of bourbon and some freshly squeezed lemon is exactly what I should have been drinking all those years.

As we prep for our monthly 3rd Sunday Supper Club, where the theme is pink, I’m enjoying a bit of nostalgia with the grenadine, lemon, and maraschino cherries but this new bourbon twist. Perhaps I’ll bust it out for everyone else to enjoy tonight as well.

Found some super stale Red Vines in the no-no cupboard today while snooping for some sugar. Probably ought to kill off those Peeps from last year as well, I think they’ve thoroughly cured by now to the proper crunchiness.

Some bubbles in a poured porter from Georgetown Brewery … all with random effects through pixlr-o-matic.

Too much work. Not enough caffeine.

A delayed “evening edition” of the photo-a-day today. We got our shipment from Full Circle Farms today for the first time since we went to Belize. We got a pair of blood oranges to match up with the pairs of lemons and limes we had from the store the other day. These suckers are huge! Happy to have collected all six, and used a lemon and a lime today for bevvies and fish for dinner. Nom.

Yes, two coffee shots in two days. I know this. But it’s so good to have delicious coffee at work. The coffee at the ol’ office was so bad we had to go upstairs to get bourgeois coffee … which was still drip, but highly palatable. Tomorrow I’ll shoot something else. I promise.