A couple years ago - I think it was the weekend before Labor Day - Irish and I wanted to go to Redamak's https://www.redamaks.com/ and drove up to New Buffalo. We planned on driving by the beach and turning around (it costs to park and since we were only taking a quick look we didn't plan on parking in the first place), which just takes a couple ( Read more... )

Thank you to both geekmama and jaded_jamie for the snowflake cookies. They're almost too pretty to eat!

And a slightly belated Happy Birthday to killabeez and to gillo, two more reasons I'm so glad for the Internet. I've met some wonderful people - sometimes in real life and sometimes not - and these are just two. I hope the next year is the best yet for each of you.