animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

gun bash

Jacob’s boy scout troop hosted a gun bash today as a fundraiser. I went with the dads (Brian helped out with the bash, so he didn’t get to have any of the fun). Unfortunately, I did not win anything (at least not while I was there–they were still drawing for …

date morning

Despite the fact that Brian and I are always together due to work, it seems like we never get to do anything fun. So, we’re jumping on the “date night” bandwagon and are trying to schedule some non-work related activities into our lives. The first of these happened Saturday morning, …

guns

On Sunday, we went to the Shriners’ gun raffle in Altoona with my parents. It was a fun afternoon even though we didn’t win any guns (my dad won a door prize of a trail camera, though). For obvious reasons, guns have been in the news a lot lately. I …

labor day

It was a quiet weekend with nothing on the schedule. Friday night, we made our yearly trek to the Ethnic Festival for some delicious pierogies at St. Mary’s Church. We ran into a couple people we knew down there, and talked to them, but we weren’t there very long beyond …