Flux Capacitating

Well, it was a great weekend!  We listened to some amazing music (my three favorites were, in this order, Bombadil, David Grisman and Amos Lee), got pretty dirty camping and shook the ‘ol money makers.  Our photog friend Tom took some great pictures so I’m popping those up.  Floyd Fest is great because it’s a family [...]

Well we’re headed to Floyd Fest tomorrow morning to spend the weekend camping, catching up with friends and listening to some pretty great bands, so there will be a couple more days of silence here on the blog.  Drew had his last class on Tuesday and he presents his final project next Friday and then he [...]

This website has been entertaining me this afternoon–it’s always fun to see yourself in unusual places, I suppose!

I love mantles because they take on such an alter feel and I do believe that they are the other half of the reason that people love fire places so much (you know, in addition to all of that warmth and crackling and whathaveyou).  I recently found this little bird to add to our mantle [...]

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
I will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
-Robert Frost

Here’s our cat [...]

Unfortunately it wasn’t the best day ever–a few hiccups that aren’t earth shattering, just some things that dampened my mood.  I just wrote a sentence about lemons into lemonade and I remembered that I saw a bumper sticker this morning on the back of a very old subaru that read something like, when life hands [...]

Regardless of where you fall on the political scale, I think it’s fair to assume that we’re all in agreement that we’re very lucky to live in a country where you can agree (or disagree) to disagree (or agree) and that there is an over arching theme of each to his/her own.  Which brings us [...]

It’s hard to know if the joke’s on me or on Grace–I’m the one that bought her an orange polkadot collar, but Grace is the one unknowingly sporting it around.  Generally we go for the canvas collar, but I came across this one and thought that we would dress her up a little.  Grace has [...]

Well, I’ve reduced the size of my batches, so the onion rolls are going much more smoothly now and it seemed safer to put these pictures up. These rolls are a standard at my Aunt Vicki’s house, and they really make the life of a sandwich just that much better. We’re having a bar-b-que to [...]

Well there it is.  The first tomato of the year–begging for salt, pepper, mozzarella and its old neighbor, basil.  There’s more that I want to say, but my brain is begging for a few pages of my book and bed, so, in honor of this little yella fella, we’ll stick with less being just that [...]