animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

nine years and counting

Today, Brian and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. We (all three of us) went to dinner at Rizzo’s Restaurant in Windber to celebrate this evening. As luck would have it, Brian had a meeting in Richland at 4:00 today, so he was able to get home early enough so …

party all day long

Yesterday, Jacob went to a birthday party for one of his friends from daycare. After this, we went to a Thunder in the Valley party at Jacob’s babysitter’s house. It was cool–there were real bikers there and everything (as opposed to the fake kind). Also, another one of Jacob’s friends …

let there be light

I’ve been wanting to put some solar lighting outside for quite a while now. I finally got around to buying some lights this week. I put some low accent lights in the myrtle patch and put some staked lanterns in my butterfly garden. I have to say, it looks pretty …

hit me baby one more time

For some reason, I find this show entertaining (or maybe I’m just desperate for Thursday night entertainment). For the uninitiated, this is a show where five one hit wonders from years past play two minute versions of their three minute long hit songs in the first half hour and then …

first day of summer

Could you have asked for better weather on this first day of summer? I couldn’t have. Much like most evenings, I spent my time in the garden. I’ve been having problems with some animal eating my beans and peas, so I replanted the beans and put up a temporary fence …