Keep one blog – Renae centralized, as it were. So I’m okay with spiders and with all manner of lovely beast and fowl. However, you have not posted enough about what YOU ARE READING. So -please continue posting your photos of food and animals friends – but also give me your reading recommends.

Your Utah friend, Lisa

PS. I just finished reading: The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Marchart (recommend – 10/10) and am reading In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (recommend – 11/10).

http://www.brucemachart.com/wake/index.php

http://eriklarsonbooks.com/the-books/in-the-garden-of-beasts/

With sincerity, Lisa G/K

Also, as much as I love Depeche Mode and your rambling about it, simply, hell yeah, post your photos here! I’m a photo person and love seeing yours, so please do keep ‘em all in one place. So much easier. And more fun. And, as someone who posts non-vegan pictures of food, I’m totally down with the idea of “if you aren’t interested, just scroll on by without looking.” No need to worry about readership–anyone who leaves is just plain dumb since your writing and your food and your photos are superb.

And, ((hugs)) on the Jeremy’s birthday. I know what it means to lose someone like that, not easy. While I never knew him, I’m sure he would have loved your beans. They look fantastic.

And now I’m craving rice and beans in the middle of the night… Your recipe might have been a very casual, even-more-lax-than-usual thing, you still gave just enough details to make it sound amazing.
I think I’ve already told you that I love your cooking style even when it’s more “suggestion” than “recipe”, because that’s totally how I cook too, to the point that I would find it really hard to guesstimate how much of each ingredients I have used and write down a recipe. I really admire your ability to do so! And I totally get that taking the time to take great pics of your food when you’re hungry must be a pain sometimes…
Feel free to share whatever else you’d like to blog about, I’ll happily follow along! I came for the food, sure, but *you* are what made me stick around, and that involves all that makes you *you* – the food, the photography (vacation pics, infrared pics, etc.), the crafts, the animals, and whatever else is to come.