helen visit

Part of the present that Helen made for me.


Our friend Helen is visiting from London. She brought some very yummy chocolate (see photo below) and also a surprise present for me which she created herself in a furniture design/making course. I've posted part of her present in a photo at the top of this page. Can any of you guess what the final object looks like? Complete photo will be posted in a future Blathering; Helen needs a few small pieces to complete the construction. She even shaped most of the metal pieces herself; I'm super impressed.

If you're curious about some of Helen's other projects, check out her website.



Chocolate from Helen.


I finished reading A Prayer For Owen Meany last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My next reading project is to reread the last Harry Potter novel, in preparation for the arrival of the new book.

Also still enjoying Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jeff is hooked on Angel, hah hah! We're starting to watch the episodes together, and we are still in season 1 (and bitter about Doyle).

re: beetle picture yesterday...

I had asked if anyone knew what these were. Anke from Germany wrote:

"Thanks to my boyfriend, who is a biologist who specialized on insects, here comes the definition: They seem to be weevils (german: Ruesselkaefer) (Curculionidae, probably subfamily Otiorhynchinae). Usually harmless plant-eaters! *grin* But some of the nymphs do develop in wood (which is not so good for the wood... :-) ). But Oliver says that the picture is not good enough to really be sure."

Thnak you, Anke and Oliver!



Helen's contribution to Jeff's birthday scrapbook. She created it
in Illustrator, so I'm hoping to get some tips from her about the liner notes
for our CD (she is an Illustrator guru).


(This entry was written with ViaVoice, a voice recognition program, which sometimes has its own sense of humor. Please forgive any spelling or grammar quirks which Debbie has missed while editing. Thank you. )

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