My mother-in-law grows a garden each summer.  In it are vegetables, like delicious cucumbers and crisp, sweet carrots, and cutting flowers that she picks and arranges to take to people to brighten their day.  After learning about our carrot harvest disaster of 2009, this year she decided to plant extra…

Cousins.  Sometimes they are cause  for the employment of that first class secret weapon:  projectile vomit of stinky curdled milk.

We were in North Dakota over the weekend.  It was a 50 hour trip.  I did not know why we were making this 50 hour trip to North Dakota in December, and quite frankly I was pretty skeptical about the idea.  In fact, I was pretty grouchy about the idea.…

Pigtails . . . fresh from the shower.  Oh how we love them around here!  The Banana likes them because they are fun.  The Mama likes them because they are are so stinking cute, the way they just curl right up in a little spiral, and then dry so soft…