Spent a couple hours on Labor Day riding horseback with my boy. My celebratory gift to him for landing a job, getting his own place and rockin’ the teaching job! First step: Introducing rider to horse. then I introduced him to my faithful ride, Layla. After the boy got in the saddle we had him … Read More
Garden beauty
Canned some more tomato/basil spaghetti sauce today with some of the tomatoes and basil in our garden. While I was in the garden gathering some basil… surrounded by the zinnias and dahlias I found myself surrounded by several hummingbirds too by the time I ran in the house for my camera, several had left but … Read More
First time for everything…
After sleeping in a bit on Sunday, Mr. D and I joined our BFFs and headed to the Great Minnesota Get-Together The Minnesota State Fair We’ve been a couple times but this time was VERY different from other visits. Besides not having any children along, we did something VERY out-of-character for both of us. Never … Read More
Bridges
In June we went to a wedding in Literberry, Illinois. A teensy little town near Jacksonville, IL Heading south we crossed the Mississippi River on the Bayview Bridge in Quincy, IL. we hit it up again on our way back up north. At the same time we were driving on the Bayview Bridge a train … Read More
Saturday
Yesterday Mr. D and I spent the day canning. As in preserving. As in up to our elbows in tomatoes and peaches. Tomatoes from our garden into tomato juice … and homemade tomato basil pasta sauce (basil from our garden too) Colorado peaches became peach honey butter We wrapped up the day with pasta topped … Read More
Wordless Wednesday
photos courtesy of Nate Dietzman edits by me
Beach Loot
My. Beach. Loot. With the assistance of my family, I managed to take home a <very> nice assortment of rocks. stones, fossils and sea glass from the shores of Lake Michigan. Yep. I sorted them. It was awesome. So awesome in fact, that I think I’ll do it again tomorrow! I’m not going to bore ya’all … Read More
Rocks I
One of our past times (Nate and Tim especially) while sitting on the beach on our vacation was to stack the stones that were near our seats. Nate was the most prolific stacker and Tim came in second Nate’s rock art was extensive and detailed this is my current screen saver… photos courtesy of Nate … Read More
The beach house
The beach house … not really on the beach. The house we rented was either a 2 minute drive, 5 minute bike ride, or 10 minute walk from door to shore. It looked out over horse stables and corrals. Not too shabby. Door one. Which is probably, technically the “back door”. Those bags on the … Read More
5 Star Pizza !
We wrapped up the hometown tour early afternoon and headed to the home of our looooong time friends, Sue and Ed. The not-so-newly-wed couple met us at Sue and Ed’s where we all enjoyed the …. …amazing homemadebetterthananyrestaurant pizza that Ed makes. This pizza is so freakin’ delicious that the notsonewlyweds decided to pass on … Read More