Last night I met Deb’s brothers, Howard and Tom. I’ve heard about them for so long, and it was fun to finally meet them. We had caramel cake with chocolate ice cream and walnut topping. It was yum! Deb and I had already had a few glasses of wine, but we topped the cake off […]

Yesterday was very important because my brother and sister-in-law hooked up one of my two woodstoves. The other will be hooked up as soon as I get one more piece of stove pipe. The stoves are both the kind that can be opened to see the flames so that if you want a fireplace and […]

It’s FALL! Like beautiful autumn, like crisp cold as a refrigerated apple air, like bright hurt your eyes but you don’t want to wear sunglasses sun, like leafcrunch. I was up early but then decided to read THE WEEK which I have been converted to as an “objective” news-zine, has some hazelnut decaf, and went […]