Pictures! Here are some recent pics of Lily & Gabriel.

So it’s just before 9pm and my toddler son, Gabriel (23 months), is just now thinking about going to sleep when his usual bed time is around 7:30. His performance tonight was impressive enough that he should consider a career in law. Despite the fact that he’s just beginning to speak in sentences, he’s quite [...]

It’s August, a time of year when I become absolutely obsessed with canning, freezing, and dehydrating. That’s right, canning is not just for your Great Aunt Mabel, hip (or not) young (or not) people do it too! When we bought our house in 1999, we inherited a home-canner’s paradise in the way of fruit trees, [...]

A serious omission has been brought to my attention, for which I am greatly sorry. In the original “About” page, I made the mistake of leaving off our darling kitty, Mystic, when listing the members of our family. It seems that my husband has lived in Boulder long enough to internalize the law that clearly [...]

So…I’ve been feeling very mixed about the whole concept of a blog. First because there are so many now that didn’t seem the least bit original and second because I wasn’t sure that I was going to have the time to devote to making it a real destination for family, friends, and others in cyberspace. [...]