animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

why him?

This movie was a comedy about a father who tries to keep his daughter’s boyfriend from asking her to marry him. It had some decent star power–Bryan Cranston, Megan Mullally, James Franco–but didn’t do well with the critics or at the box office. It came across my radar and I …

simplifying

In 2018, I am trying to cut things out of my life that take too much time or cause stress and concentrate more on things I enjoy doing. As a first step, we sold our rental property in May. That place was just one more building to upkeep. When you …

foo fighters again

Brian, Jake, Jake’s girlfriend (Megan), and I went to see the Foo Fighters at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday. What a great show! They are such a fun band to see live. Much like the first time we saw them, they played for almost 2.5 hours–way longer than most bands. …

improvising

While we were getting packed for vacation on the 4th, a storm rolled through and knocked out the power for the better part of the day (12:30pm-10pm). Brian had to hook up the generator so we didn’t lose any food in the fridge and freezer. Good thing the power outage …

the outsider

I read this book from Stephen King while we were on vacation. It was quite good. It had a really interesting concept–I don’t want to give anything away so I’m not going to try to explain it. The only negative was that I felt that most of the characters were …