So I was home for a week…leaving on Wednesday to teach courses in Portland, OR. But I managed to get quite a bit done during the week I was home.
A girl should be so lucky to have a husband who came home from work early on Friday to whip up some enchiladas made with real New Mexico chile’s that he mail ordered while you were out-of-town.
I’ve got to work on my heat tolerance…but flavor was spot on and the perfectly ripe avocado was nice and cooling!
Before I left, I had picked out some paint to match the paint color in our master bathroom. This looks like a hallway…but it is actually our closet. Through that door is the main hallway of our house and the red continues the entire length. This led me to feel like our closet is in the hall…and over time, it started to really annoy me. Don’t get me wrong…as reds go…it is a lovely hue, and we’ve got the same red on another wall in the family room…but it just didn’t belong in our master hallway closet.
I used two coats of primer (that is some seriously dark paint), and was amazed at how much I liked it, even before any real paint made it onto the walls.
…and here is the final result…
I *LOVE* it! The color is Benjamin Moore Wish…and closely matches the bathroom which is through the door on the right.
It brightens up the space and makes the whole space feel like a master suite, instead of a bathroom off of a hallway with a closet that leads to the bedroom. I’ve been thinking of painting the bedroom as well…but it is not as pressing now that the transition is not so jarring.
Woody had a geobiology conference at Caltech all day Saturday, and I attended a friends tenure celebration after getting coffee and catching up with a friend.
Mark clued us in to a pop-up store happening this weekend…so we headed to 3rd and Fairfax to get some chilaquiles for breakfast from Lotería at the Original Farmer’s Market. Stuffed we headed to an unexplored area of the city…the Arts District, just east of downtown LA.
The pop-up itself was interesting…all american made, all menswear, and very hipster…as such, we were warned of beards and selvedge denim. We didn’t purchase anything…but ogled some hammered metal cuff bracelets, canvas aprons, pretty surf boards, pomades, vintage styled rucksacks and saw a lot of stripes, wool, denim, and leather.
Had we known of all the interesting places to grab a bite to eat, we would’ve skipped 3rd and Fairfax and headed directly here. Despite having just eaten, we couldn’t pass up a handpie from Pie Hole.
We opted for the beef hand pie…which was warmed up for us. It’s delightfully flaky crust and savory beef inside was perfect…not juicy, but not dry either. I would definitely stop by this place again, if I was in the neighborhood!
Across the street was another place that is now on our list…Wurstküche…a place full of sausages, Belgian fries and beer…what’s not to like?
And then, because we had not had enough pastry…I made a quiche…which was one the better ones in recent memory. Full of kale, mushrooms, pancetta and Gruyère with some zucchini on top – made more delicious as we had a friend over for dinner whose wife and baby are out-of-town.
All in all, a delightful and productive weekend!
Now it’s time to finish the laundry, get organized and pack up for Portland!
Fischer Life 