animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

the allegro

Yesterday, we went to the Allegro in Altoona to celebrate my birthday, my brother’s birthday, and my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary. We picked up my grandmother on the way and that was the highlight of the trip. We were using my GPS and she just about pissed herself laughing every …

wine party

Last night, Brian’s parents hosted another wine party. This party’s theme was “animal” so we all brought bottles of wine having an animal on the label. I thought that was a pretty neat theme. All of the wine was great, as was the food and conversation. I really need to …

lights!

Over the course of the past two days, I put all of the solar lighting out. I also buried all of the cables around the pond area. I still need to verify that all of the lights are in working order. In other gardening news, my tomato plants have been …

yes man

In honor of Jake’s birthday week, we let him pick the movie for family movie night. His choice was Yes Man. This was a story about a guy who decides to say “yes” to everything for a year. Frankly, I wasn’t holding out much hope for the film (for one …