animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

the backdoor cafe

Tonight we blew an equivalent of a week’s worth of grocery money on dinner. And, it was worth it. I’d been wanting to check out the Back Door Cafe for quite a while now. I decided that it would be the perfect place to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary this …

cookout

We went to our first cookout of the year today. Not the best weather for it, but at least it didn’t rain (while we were there, anyway–it’s raining now.). A guy Brian used to work with had a party and invited a bunch of people from Brian’s old workplace, so …

marley & me

I’m not talking about the cat. My brother got me the book “Marley & Me” for my birthday this year. I tore through it rather quickly. It was nice to read about a dog that was worse than any of the dogs I’ve owned (hard to believe, I know). Of …