animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

proving ground

Way back when, I read another book by this same author, Peter Blauner, and I couldn’t put it down. If I recall correctly, I stayed up half the night reading it. Unfortunately, the same was not true for this novel. While good, it didn’t pull me in like that. I …

second act

I should have heeded the critics’ warnings on this one. But I figured it would be worth it just to look at Milo Ventimiglia for a bit. Turns out, he was hardly in the movie. Not good. My rating: 2.5/5

back to it

I have spent the past five days doing nothing around the house. It all started with the Democratic debates on Tuesday. I don’t know why, but they had them on an hour earlier than last time (they started at 8pm), so by the time we had supper there wasn’t much …

the weekend

Two of my employees/coworkers invited me to go to the Ligonier farmers market with them on Saturday. I’ve been wanting to go, so I took them up on their offer. It was very nice–and huge! I purchased a bunch of food items. Everything we’ve tried so far has been great. …

fillings

Long story short, I had to get a tooth filled today. My first one in about 40 years! I wasn’t too happy about it, but the dentist did it without giving me a shot, so that was a plus (though it did hurt a little). Brian also had a cavity …