The Banana was so very, very sad to say goodbye to Grandma Kathy when she left last Monday.  There were lots of tears.  There was lots of misery.  Thank goodness we had a music class to go and teach, or we both probably would have wallowed all morning.  The Banana…

On Sunday we traveled to Bayfield for the Apple Festival.  We love the apple festival every year, and this year was one of our favorites yet.  To get there we actually had to take two cars, since our van was in the fix-it shop.  (The last several times we’ve had…

I have lots and lots of pictures to share from the weekend, but they aren’t all ready yet, so I’m just popping in to share a few pictures of trees.  There were so many more splendid ones that I didn’t even manage to get pictures of, but here is a…

Mr. Trouble on Two Feet’s arms have grown exponentially. Of course, I knew deep down inside that there was little hope that he had escaped the food stealing gene.  And even if he had, chances are highly likely that he would have learned the skill of food sneaking from the…

This week, if I’m not teaching a music class, or teaching a piano lesson, or checking a kidlet’s homework, I’m off and about enjoying TREES!  They are so amazing!  Best of all, we have a grandma here to share them with.  We have great plans for this weekend, but we’re…

Our neighbors are wonderful people.  Wonderful.  Seriously, I couldn’t ask for better people in my neighborhood.  There is ONE neighbor, however, who lives about a block up our other street (our house sits on a corner) who is a tremendously bitter person.  And he hates our cat, who constantly escapes…

Every year I try to go up the North Shore in the early/mid autumn season to see the inland maples on the hills that sweep down to Lake Superior.  I’ve made it up there every year, although I fretted it would not happen this year.  We went apple picking the…

She’s always looking out for the best interests of Mr. Trouble on Feet.  He just doesn’t always realize it.  She keeps him away from dangerous places.  She makes sure he isn’t choking on things.  She goes behind him and picks up the things he strews about that he shouldn’t have…

What I like best about the beach is that there is always room for everyone to spread out and go their own directions.  This is especially helpful when everyone has been cooped up in the car for a bit.  On our way back from Bayfield last Saturday the kidlets asked…

It’s my favorite time of year!  The leaves are getting better every day.  On Wednesday while the big kidlets were at school in the morning, I decided to fling caution to the wind, and even though I had a long To Do list of things that really needed to be…