February 2017 at Urban Home Blog

Here are some of our plans for the transitional month of February at Urban Home Blog.

• Celebrate Candlemas by lighting entire home with candles, baking a lemon pound cake, and making an offering of blackberries to the California laurel.
• Start posies in seed pots. This year: black pansies, grape hyacinth, and raspberries.
• Work with gardener to trim and dust lemon and tangerine trees.
• Follow up with human services and conservation organizations to see if there are pressing donation needs for winter / early spring.
• Watch Rachel Carson documentary on American Experience. Have copy of Silent Spring. on hand during viewing.
• Go on photo safari in DTLA to include Angel's Flight, GrandCentral Market, Little Tokyo, City Hall, and Union Station.
• Go on annual photo safari on Hollywood Boulevard while it is being prepared for the Academy Awards.
• Utilize Instagram and ViewBug to share photos and to determine which photos to use as trail run for a memory book service.
• Attend California train show with John for Valentine's Day, to be capped off, appropriately, with dinner at The Smokehouse.
• Rotate new mattress at the sixty day mark, and every sixty days thereafter.
• Schedule annual rug and upholstery cleaning.
• Finalize organizing tax documents in preparation for appointment with tax professional.
• Host informal Academy Awards viewing party. Theme movie: Mildred Pierce. Menu: chicken and waffles (Mildred Pierce), California greens, and pie. At the bar: dry martini (Monty Beragon) and Scotch (Wally Faye).

Reading List: Carsick, John Waters; Creating the Illusion, Jorgensen and Scoggins; Failure of Moonlight, Rosemary Edghill

Listening List: La La Land, soundtrack; Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart; Life Without Sound, Cloud Nothings

February, 2016: Celebrating February

February, 2013: From the Vault, Candlemas

February, 2012: Caring for Cut Flowers, Terrariums, Weeknight Dinner, Field Trip

February, 2011: Weeknight Dinner, Side Dish, Dessert, Urban Bar, From the Vault

February, 2010: Side Dish, Dessert, Homekeeper's Library