animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

weeds

I finally finished watching this series. I thought it was interesting how it started off as more of a comedy and then the middle seasons were pretty dark. The final season was definitely on the lighter side (in both levity and plot). I like how they fast-forwarded in time in …

cheddar

I made another batch of cheese today. This one was a stirred curd cheddar. This method was a slightly less labor-intensive version of cheddar, which I made previously. I’m interested to see if there’s any difference in the final product. I’m only going to be making one more batch of …

sunday, fun day

This afternoon we went to a gun raffle at the Portage Revolver & Pistol Club with my parents. We are members of the club and Jake is in their junior rifle league, so it was nice to be able to throw some support their way. They were giving away a …

braces

After a few trips to the orthodontist, Jake had his top braces installed this week. I can’t remember why, but they are not doing the bottom braces for a quite a bit. He doesn’t go back until May and, at that point, they’re going to tell us when he should …

snow snow go away

As Chandler Bing might say, could the groundhog have been any more wrong? I don’t think it has stopped snowing since he declared that winter is over. I have wonderful memories of last March where it was 70 degrees for a couple of weeks and I started gardening a month …