We returned last night from our trip "home" for Christmas and quite a week it was ( Read more... )

We're back from our trip.  We attended my niece's wedding in Pittsburgh on Saturday and then spent a few days with family outside Charleston, WV.  I'll post more when I'm unpacked and awake ( Read more... )

My niece's wedding is in a month and I don't know what to wear!   It's in Pittsburgh, at an estate-turned-conference center.   Ceremony at 5:30 in the evening with cocktail hour immediately following "on the deck" and the reception (dancing) in the "glass atrium". I don't think that early means formal.  Knowing my s-i-l, she would probably say " ( Read more... )

A little background ( Read more... )

I'll be essentially out of touch for several days.  We'll be at my brother's and only have dial-up.  The boys and I hope to leave tomorrow morning and Jeb will drive out separately when he can.  He'd planned to take all week off, but they have a crunch deadline of the end of the year and one of the men in his office died suddenly last week, making ( Read more... )

Our Thanksgiving weekend was spent at my brother's house where the only internet connection is dial-up - and he doesn't like to have the phone tied up!  So we were totally off-line from Wednesday afternoon until this morning.  I think I've finally caught up on e-mail and LJ posts.  Whew!

( Thanksgiving menu )

 Well, we didn't get to go to Pennsic - again.  But we did have a nice, relaxing week with family.

Once the window was re-installed, we packed for a week in West-BG-Virginia.  We arrived at my brother's on Tuesday afternoon, taking our time travelling the "old road" and stopping at Hawk's Nest Park.  Tom has lived alone for several years and is ( Read more... )