Mr. TOF and I read a book about Venice, and I learned so many things I didn’t know about this interesting city, like how glassblowing and glassmaking has been an important part of the history of the city, and the history of the four golden horses on top of St.…

Auntie Dot had an important birthday right before family cabin weekend, so of course we needed to celebrate with everyone all together. What could be more perfect than a parade from the back cabin to the front cabin and around the loop a few times? The kidlets and cousins made…

Cousin Katherine picked a trip to the Secret Beach for our Sunday night excursion. It was delightfully wavy, and I was told that the water was not too cold, actually. They had a lot of fun splashing in the waves that were breaking. There was also a search for sea…

I was sitting on the dock at the cabin during family cabin weekend, and a shaft of sunlight hit this underwater plant just right.

It was a week filled with creative art projects, cooking in the mud kitchen, board games, a trip to the Timber Twister Alpine slide, waffle ball in the front yard, and a marble run extravaganza. The Banana baked and decorated a cake with Cousin Katherine, and we made smoothie popsicles…

We were delighted to find out that rowing was happening this summer. The Banana and the Devious Snail signed up, and their summer was filled with early morning bike rides all the way down to the end of the point for rowing practice. I had pity on them and picked…

By the time I got to the beach I was grouchy, and I ended up only taking pictures of seagulls even though three people from my family were along. That’s how it goes sometimes. It does always surprise me how different each seagull looks close up. Some are pure white.…

Brutus the Cat loves cuddling up inside of boxes. He likes big boxes, medium boxes, and even if boxes are way too small for him, he still does his best to crawl inside. My good friend gifted us with these amazing stacking blocks (they are so fun!!!) and I was…

I have lots of zinnias blooming on the back deck right now, but this one, which hasn’t yet revealed what color or shape it will be, caught my attention. I love how tightly the flower bud is wrapped up, and the contrast of the black edges and the green. It…