animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

that rodent prognosticator

Punxsutawney Phil predicted another six weeks of winter today. Doesn’t he usually? Seeing that we haven’t even had six weeks of winter yet this year, it’s hard to complain about the forecast. I’m just glad we got through January. I hate that month. Not that February has that much going …

it’s taxing

I’m done with our taxes. Sort of. The local and state taxes have been submitted. The federal ones are just about ready to go. (I’m still waiting on one of my forms. sheesh.) Thank God for TurboTax. We will be getting a few dollars back–enough to cover our upcoming yearly …

family dinner 2005

Well, the annual dinner with the parents occurred this evening. As I mentioned yesterday, we did an Italian theme this year. For appetizers, I made an antipasto tray consisting of prosciutto, soppressatta, genoa salami, capacola, marinated fresh mozzarella, provolone, giardiniera, green olives, marinated artichoke hearts, roasted red bell peppers and …

the past few days

Nothing noteworthy has been going on recently, so that explains my lack of posts. I did manage to do what no one thought could be done–fatten up Brian a little bit (enough to make him go buy an exercise bike this week and actually use the thing every day). Middle …

vonage

We took the plunge and signed up for a VOIP (voice over IP) provider on December 11. Goodbye, landline! We went with Vonage. I read some good reviews about them and they seem to be the most popular provider, so that clinched our decision. So far I’ve been happy with …