The old haunts...

Ah it felt so nice to be shopping back in our old Safeway store in Livermore. It's actually on the opposite end of town from where we live so most of our food stores will come from the smaller downtown store, but oh the treat for going to our old haunt. I always liked that store and it has improved since they finished renovating it (we moved before it was finished). It was a dream to wander down the isles and just know where everything was for the most part, very satisfying and both of us said wow we really feel like we are back at home. Must admit it was a funny thought as in the end we couldn't wait to be done with living in the apartment we rented in Livermore. However, we did have many great nights and Livermore in general feels like an old glove and fits us perfectly.

The wine manager was every so helpful too in the store and we purchased a white wine for dinner based on his recommendation and he even gave us the discount price that the wine was in sale for last week but had just ended ($3.00 off!). So tonight I cooked orange balsamic chicken thighs oh was it delicious and a nice quick recipe, and if you can't get honey pecans just use regular and you can put them in with the sage and butter it works just fine. The wine we paired with this was Champalou 2007, Vouvray. I have to admit the wine and the meal just went well together. Not too dry it uses a Demi-Sec grape most often used now in sparkling wines but this was a still wine. I have to admit the pairing was superb and the wine worth the price as we got it for just over $15.

Such a lovely lovely evening the girls we awake from 1:30 this afternoon and knackered by the time we got them to bed so here's hoping for a peaceful night (yeah right it's too hot I reckon for a good one but we can try).

Managed to hang nearly all the photos and pictures that I have, not too shabby. Was too hot for James to get up in the attic but we did a few other jobs around the house including 5 loads of laundry...we managed to shut the cats up in the spare room and well someone needed to poop. Least they had the courtesy of doing it on the bed cover which is easy to wash rather than the carpet...lesson learned don't shut the door without making sure the cats aren't in there.

Tomorrow we will do the weather proofing on the doors and if it's not too bad we will try to get the fans up, if however it's too hot again we will wait until next week and hope it's going to be cooler or at least try to do it first thing in the morning before it gets too hot up there.

So loving the fact that we can vacuum at 7:00 am if we want to and it will not disturb the neighbours although I'm still hating new carpet. Damn if that carpet didn't clog the vacuum up yet again (mutters), I reckon in about 6 months after cleaning 2 times a week I might get most of the fibers up.

I have to admit I was sitting in the bedroom folding up laundry earlier this evening and I just looked around and had to pinch myself is this really our home? So hard to believe sometimes but it feels good. James is totally loving the peace we have here and not really listening to the downstairs base. We do get to hear the neighbours music but it's never played late in the evening at loud volumes and so far really hasn't disturbed us. Oh and the lack of traffic is noticeable for sure, Lani doesn't have so many shadows to chase after :)