I’ve been trying to think of a simile to explain what my weekend was like. The best I’ve been able to come up with is that it was like a beautiful orchestral piece, but with one obvious piece of the melody completely missing sometimes. Beautiful, gorgeous harmonies! And then a strange silence where a violin… Continue reading
Tag: friendships
Goals and plans
I’ve been trying to figure out where to start this post, but I’m having trouble. There are so many thoughts bouncing around in this head of mine and they refuse to settle down into organized sentences. Let’s see if they’ll fall out into an un-sorted list: Seeing everybody for the reunion was AWESOME! We enjoyed… Continue reading
Experimental baking! (And my skillet is done!)
Yesterday afternoon, Julie came over for a round of Experimental Baking! We chose three recipes for sweets, another for dinner, and one condiment. We started at about 3:00 in the afternoon, with a run to the grocery store before we could start baking, and finished all our baking around 10:00 at night. It was a… Continue reading
Wrap-up of Round One in our hosting adventure
Part one of our hosting extravaganza has passed. Pat and Judith left to go back home yesterday around noon. I had to work – and it was good that I didn’t take the day off, actually, because my coworker who took over the administrative assistant duties went home sick, so I had to step in… Continue reading
Goings on around here
We are about to head into a very busy couple of weeks here at our end of the world. Here’s a preview of what’s going on: Our friends Pat and Judith started on their drive to our house this morning. Pat lives in upstate New York (meaning he lives somewhere other than New York City)… Continue reading