Happy Anniversary to Hank and Jean!

There aren’t many people who can say they’ve weathered the marriage storm for 50 years, but my Mother and Father-in-law are two of them as of yesterday.  We had plans to go up for a family celebration today, but as luck would have it, Jean came down with a bug yesterday and wasn’t feeling up [...]

Beer & gardens

For our anniversary, I thought it would be fun to buy us a beer brewing kit. The beer is currently in its primary fermenting stage. We started with a very basic kit and if we like the process will no doubt move to more sophisticated methods, but this one was easy. Boil [...]

This time last year…

Reading a post from this day last year makes me realize how far we’ve come in a year!  At that time, we were still waiting on the house to be finished.  Countertops and painters and all sorts of last minute things were waiting to be done.  And I emphasize waiting.  I was complaining about being [...]

Turtle eggs

It’s that time of year when the turtles all make their way out of the pond up to the shore to lay their eggs.  Some are very lazy and dig the hole for their eggs the first place they come to out on the shore, others walk great lengths to find a “good spot”.  I’m [...]