animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

kitchen time

While I like to cook, it’s nice to catch a break every once in a while. This past weekend was one of those times. Saturday night, we met up with Carol and Bob at Pour on Center in Ebensburg. The food and drinks were excellent. I was impressed. We’ll definitely …

20

Brian and I celebrated our 20th anniversary on June 28th. Since one of our Thunder afternoons off work was canceled due to the weather, we decided to take the afternoon of the 28th off instead. We took a motorcycle ride to Yellow Creek State Park in the afternoon. It was …

birthday weekend

My birthday weekend started off at Polkafest, which it always does. We were there Friday night for supper, but didn’t have time to get there again so we missed Alex Meixner this year. Hopefully he’ll be back again next year. On Sunday, Brian made a delicious birthday brunch and the …

busy times

The weekend was kind of busy, with things going on each day. Friday night, Jake played at his school’s Coffee House event, which is like a real coffee house, where performers play music or do poetry. Jake and his friend Kat played a song (Jake was on guitar and Kat, …

celebration

We had our (almost) annual Mother’s Day/Jacob’s birthday party yesterday. I even tried to schedule it on a different day (Jake’s actual birthday), but a school event came up so we had to reschedule and this was the only day that worked for everyone. The usual suspects were present. I …