On our way to the pumpkin patch, we stopped at the Mt. Vernon farmers market.  Someday, my kids will get me a ”I Brake for Farmers Markets!” bumper sticker.   It was still foggy, the market was just waking up, and a string trio played  bluegrass renditions of old hymns. Really puts you in the mood for [...]

Wow!  Back from Sun Lakes, flip open the computer, find 31 comments!  All about my little trip to Portland.  You’d think I’d gone to Rome or something.  Not Rome–just existential tangents about everyday minutiae and yes–more leftovers.  Rome is overrated anyway (so is Hawaii and Turkey and Prague and Tokyo and all those other places [...]

Wow.  Five days in the North Cascades, staying in floating cabins at Ross Lake Resort, fishing, swimming, playing games.  Yancey has been going since he was a kid, and every year my wonderful father-in-law Wayne pays for all of us to go up and be together. First Sunday in August, every year.  In October, Wyatt [...]

We have just-home-from-vacation fridge–meaning, slim pickings.  When we got home, I dumped a bunch of pinto beans in a bowl for soaking.  When all else fails, it’s rice and beans.  I buy the 25 pound bag of pintos at Costco.  It’s something crazy like $14.99.
I had a hard day today.  I was telling my friend [...]

Sorry, those of you who remain indifferent to pizza.  Here’s the latest Sunday version.  Three guesses what it’s topped with. Sarah’s leftover grilled peppers!!  The most exciting thing about this photo, though, is the vase of lilacs that Yancey and Wyatt stole for me on Mother’s Day morning.  My mom is Queen of Lilac Stealing, [...]