~The answer to the question, “doesn’t it sound like that woodpecker is pecking on the house?!?” is, yes.  Because he was.  This yellow bellied sapsucker (my father-in-law’s favorite bird name ever, by the way) took a wrong turn and ended up stranded on our screened in porch.

~Cooking and cleaning this morning.  We have friends coming to brunch.

~I made that fabulous chicken with lemons and olives, quinoa and butternut squash.  They brought a yummy salad of golden beets, red onion, dikon radish and cucumber.  For dessert Iain and Elijah made my friend Heather‘s absolutely amazing orange-chocolate covered dates (as a side note, if you all clamber for it maybe we can convince her to do a guest post with the recipe.  Because believe me, you want this recipe!).

~It was just one of those glorious, golden days, where the weather is beautiful and everyone more or less gets along, with good food and good company and everything just generally being right with the world.