Pete's brother Jeff and fiance Cindy visited us over the weekend and left this morning. They are from PA, and were going back to 30 degrees and a foot of snow. The weather here this last week has been dry and about 80 everyday. They said they thought this might happen and left their winter coats in the car at the airport when they left for ( Read more... )

I guess the news around here at the moment is the big storm we had last night. We didn’t have any real damage, just a lot of debris blew out of the trees and one of the metal benches at the fire pit blew over. Oh, and Pete just came in and said the clock that was up under the new roof over blew down and he found the battery across the yard. We ( Read more... )

It has rained on and off here for the last three days. Sometimes very heavy for long periods of time, some little shorties, and several good soaking rains. OK, now time for a few dry days, please ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Day 4 of the Black & White Photo Challenge. Here's my picture called "Lily Pond." I put a larger version of it behind the cut at the end of my post.


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How it all started . . .

and then --- burning the business . . .I closed down the business end of the business a little over a year ago after 23 years of my life almost totally being devoted to and focused on glass. All those years ago at the encouragement of my daughters, I took a five week class at the community college and from the moment I ( Read more... )

When Mary Lou arrived and saw the fire pit in the back yard, she wanted a fire! So after dinner tonight, about 7:00, Pete, ML and I headed out back and built one ( Read more... )

Last night we had our first fire in the newly moved firepit. Maria was here, we invited Gail and Jimbo over, we had a great fire, made the Somemores, a really relaxing time just sitting around talking and watching the fire. We adults had a Rum&Coke and we all brought our glasses together to toast the firepit and many more nights like this ( Read more... )

This morning Pete got it in his head he wanted to move the fire pit closer to the house ( Read more... )

Here is a picture of our new Fire Pit, built by Pete.


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