animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

father’s day 2005

The extended celebration (did you ever notice how everything’s an “extended celebration” when it comes to our families?) started yesterday when we went to my parent’s for supper in order to celebrate the holiday with them. We had a brief visit and then had to come home in time for …

wine & computers

Last night, I took a break from the disaster which is Brian’s laptop and we bottled two batches of wine–a Chardonnay/Viognier mix and a Riesling. The Riesling was superb! I pretty much stuck to it all evening, but the Chardonnay/Viognier was pretty good, too. I’m looking forward to drinking it …

step away from the computer

This has not been the week for computer hardware at the House of Law. As mentioned before, Brian’s laptop hard drive died over the weekend. He took it to a company that does data recovery, but they were not able to do anything with it. Someone he works with has …

the weekend thus far

I was off work yesterday in order to set up for a garage sale at my parent’s house. Every year, Portage has a town-wide garage sale day (aka “White Trash Day”). Not to imply that all garage sale shoppers are white trash–that certainly isn’t the case. However, I saw a …

black friday

This is another one from James Patterson. It was originally published as Black Market. You’ll find when his books were originally published as another title, they’re from his early works. I started this while we were on vacation and read almost all of it. But, for some reason, after we …