I'm back from Ashland, and still jazzed about it - we had a grand time with four fab plays and an adorable cottage to sleep in where a fresh-baked b&b breakfast was delivered to our door every morning in a wooden basket.  A doe kept coming over and chomping the apples that were falling from the tree outside the door, which was fun to watch, and ( Read more... )

I seem to have fallen back into the belief that nothing in my life is interesting enough to bother posting it, which is stupid as I always enjoy reading other people talking about everything from making sandwiches to walking their dogs.  Life sure is busy for someone who is apparently doing nothing, heh.  Spent a good part of today in yardwork, ( Read more... )

Well, I did it.  My daughter and I bought bus tickets and I got onto a city bus and tried to get to the neighboring city where her community college classes will be starting up soon.

On the good side - ( I rode a bus! )

Spent yesterday and today packing and hauling and driving etc. to help in the end of year college-kids-come-home thing, very grateful to sit down for a few minutes... until memories of a slice of chocolate cake I saw at a cafe kept coming back to haunt me. A Ghost of Dessert that May Have Been ( Read more... )

Time to shuffle people around again already, as my eldest's college gets out earlier than others (starts earlier too, to their annoyance when it's summer) - they are in finals...seems the next three days I get to be driving over to the city whenever I have a sufficient block of time, taking empty boxes scrounged from the grocery and coming back ( Read more... )

I've had a houseful of guests since Friday, five college people plus my own to make 10 altogether, and it has made me realize what I consider 'normal variety' in foodstuffs can apparently be a bit overwhelming. Take breakfast for instance ( Read more... )