Guest Chef

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Recently Mr. D and I invited Chef Johnny to The Cottage to cook for us and some friends.   Let me tell ya, this girl sure could get used to this!  All I had to do was have a shelf in my refrigerator empty, do some housekeeping, and light some candles.  Johnny brought the food, and did … Read More

We’re a team

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This is our Baby Girl. She’s a student teacher in a 5th Grade classroom. She has been working VERY hard and getting VERY LITTLE sleep. A typical day starts at …..oh, maybe 6:30 am. She gets home from teaching around 7:00 pm. She allows herself time to eat, and about an hour of “down time”. Then … Read More

5 inch heels?

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Danae buys new FIVE INCH HEELS, Mom wants to try them on.   Nate documents the event, in photos and on the blog. Results: Comparing footwear. Learning to walk again. Too much work.  Hobbling off to bed. What do you think?  Can she rock them?   Mom tells me she is buying 3 pairs this … Read More

Whitewater Wines

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We have had a wonderful weekend at The Cottage … relaxing and taking in a local spot. My sister, her husband and their youngest daughter came to visit us this weekend.  Our goal was to incorporate plenty of “kickin’ back” this weekend, and I think we accomplished this. Saturday afternoon we drove to Plainview, MN … Read More

Elegant Wedding

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Mr. D and I attended a wedding in the Cities on Saturday. We also did a little decorating for this beautiful wedding.  Though the venue would have been amazing with nothing added, my friend Deb (mother of the bride) had great vision for enhancing the surroundings. I put together these tall cylinder vases with polished … Read More

I don’t know you, you don’t know me…

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Confession # 754 We did the unthinkable. The Inconceivable. The Dirty and the Nasty. It felt so wrong.  We felt so dirty. But we did it anyway. Just to say we’d been there, and done that. Heck, we were driving right by the place. We were on our way to Door County and had to … Read More

Apple. Sauce.

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He woke me up from a blissful Sunday afternoon nap because he didn’t think I’d want to sleep too much. Then he asked when we were going to make applesauce. we have a bumper crop of apples this year and all our weekends are booked for awhile so we both knew that we should get … Read More