On all the calendar sites and many blogs, January 9th is “National Apricot Day”. I have searched, but not yet found a true source for […]
New Year’s Eve
The cabin is our New Years’ Eve gathering spot. Phil, Barbara, Rob, Camille, Chloe and I gather to play outdoors and in as well as […]
Happy Christmas All!
Monday the girls and I flew back from DC. While the airport was fire marshall scary, checking in and going through security was easy-peasy. We […]
Thanksgiving
Even with Chloe’s emergency trip to get stitches, we had a mostly relaxing Thanksgiving. The four of us, plus my mom, dad and sister (and […]
Halloween!
The Halloween pumpkins and flamingos have had their own posts, as has the village Halloween Party. But what about Halloween? On Thursday, we had our […]
Halloween Flamingos?
Having three leftover boxes of flamingos in the garage from our PLamingo parade has left us feeling a bit crafty. One person had spray painted […]
Pumpkin Time!
When we went out to the mountains a few weeks ago, we had so much fun at the apple orchard that we never managed to […]
The Candy Season has Begun
It’s been a whirlwind getting back from DC and getting back to “normal”. New tires on the car is a good thing, but the engine […]
Best Birthday Gift?
Yeah, she’s a funny girl. Those, in fact, are Wasabi peas. Truly, she loved all her gifts, safari clothes, the building toy Camille picked out […]
Happy Birthday Chloe!
Chloe is six today! Camille is planning to bake a cake for her sister later today. Chloe is still undecided about what she wants for […]
Memorial Day Parade
Today was our big Pine Lake Memorial Day Parade/Cookout/Opening of the Lake/Ice Cream Social! It was the first that we’ve ever been to, and it […]
Happy Mothers’ Day!
I was five days late for Cinco de Mayo, so one day late for Mothers’ Day isn’t so bad, right? My mom comes to stay […]
Diez de Mayo
I guess we are a few days late for the big “Cinco de Mayo” celebration. We remembered the holiday while we were on the train […]
So Nice to Be Home
I got home Friday evening with no incident. Saturday morning, I woke up very early, which was good, since I had an Easter Egg Hunt […]
Einy Meany Miney Mo
Easter is early this year. Very early. How early you ask? Just ask Gauss. Really! I admit I have not read the whole Wikipedia article […]
Valentine’s Day Sugar High
On Saturday, we had celebrated the holiday of red hearts and sugar. The girls and I gathered lots of art supplies and invited lots of […]
Chinese New Year
All along, we were excited about having guests for dinner tonight, but we found a great website with Chinese New Year’s Crafts yesterday, and the […]
Happy Chrismtas All!
The girls last night after opening new jammies and one other gift…
Back Home
We’re home again! It was great to be in Blue Ridge with family, but it is also nice to home again. I’m slowly making my […]