The last few weeks.

(In photos).
Start with homemade Pad Thai. Safeway doesn't have Thai rice noodles, only Chinese rice noodles... they're thinner and cook faster without getting sticky, so I guess I'm taking inauthentic shortcuts, but oh well.
Add an exceedingly large Dahlia...
and purple potatoes from the farmer's market. (There will be soup.)
Russian teacakes or Mexican wedding cookies??? Who knows, but if you're only rolling them in powdered sugar once, you're doing it wrong. Two rolls, baby.
I made scale drawings. D made the bookshelf.
(Side note: continued thanks to my eldest sissy for framing a poster from the first professional dance performance I was in as a gift way back in the day.)

And the second of the three really exciting bits of wall hanging we brought back from our most recent foray to the Midwest - Charley Harper's Canyon Country poster done for the National Park Service.
Item number three is my great grandmother's 8th grade diploma from the Algona school district in 1908. I'll post a photo of it as well as a better close up of the Charley Harper later.

Suffice to say our little house keeps getting to be more and more home. Now we start the 10 month countdown to departure... again.