The Brown County fair this year brought some GIGANTIC pumpkins! The winner was 654 pounds! Usually we take little Bug’s picture on the largest pumpkin, but they had them fenced off this year The recycled art was again a favorite of mine. the pepsi can dress won big… but my personal favorite was the John [...]
I was raised by the very anti-social parents, so we rarely went anywhere except to visit family. Granted, my parents have a lot of brothers and sisters, but still… I also have this trait, but I am becoming very tired of it. DH is often gone in the evenings either teaching classes, training for his [...]
The next day we went to Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana. We took the little train from Virginia City to Nevada City. Virginia City is more of a touristy town and Nevada City is more the whole-village museum. It had lots of things to see – some parts were a bit depressing, that is [...]
So, we spent the next two days in Yellowstone. Day 1 took us to the southern part of the loop around Yellowstone National Park. Our first stop was Old Faithful with a short hike around the Geyser Loop. It is just not the same without the sulfur-y smell that permeated these 2 days! This was [...]
The summer has surely been flying by and we’ve been up to lots. So, let’s start with vacation – Museum of the Rockies and Yellowstone. We flew out to Montana in early June. This was Bug’s first airplane ride that she will remember. We arrived in Bozeman, MT and had lunch/breakfast at The Cat Eye [...]
We survived vacation in North Carolina and returned safely on Sunday. The first evening (Sunday) was spent unpacking and getting settled. We used Monday to go to the store and then took the kids to do some ‘gem mining’ and putt-putt golf just to get them out of the house and moving around. On Tuesday [...]
I’m feeling ready to give up the day-to-day routine and head for the oddness that comes with the holidays. I think it has mostly to do with this being the 3/4 part of the semester. We’re all (students and faculty alike) tired of each other and ready for a significant break. We celebrated a friend’s [...]
Work and Bug have been keeping me really busy this past week. Also, we went to the fair this weekend and just drove back this morning. I’m going to try to post some more this coming week, but they will likely be short posts, including the “stash” picture for SP11 (Hi Pal!). Now for some [...]
Muir Beach/woods/Sonoma Valley was the next day…. sorry. After the Taste of the City Tour, we took the trolley back to Union Square and went shopping. DH bought a pair of shoes and some belts. I’m not really keen on shopping on vacation, at least in the kinds of stores that I can go to [...]
The apple-pear salsa Sister made last week was very good. The recipe we used was from Chef Walter, as she didn’t have her original recipe with her. I’m going to make this tomorrow for DH’s birthday and will take a picture. Here it is… with the following alterations/tips: 1. We used walnuts, but thought pecans [...]
