Super Rachel Zana's Spot

She’s one quirky girl, and makes me laugh almost every single day. It takes a special kid to look over at her parents who are having a wee bit of a tiff about the correct procedure to fold up the sun umbrella on the deck and sing so sweetly and…

I only had ONE runner at the Cougar Chase this year!  The Banana unfortunately was plagued by another injury to a tendon-like thing in her ankle and wasn’t able to run the 5K like she had hoped.  Mr. TOF ran the 1K race at a fast and furious pace.  He’s…

Around here there seems to be some sort of live music making going on most of the day each day.  If I’m not practicing, I’m listening to a kidlet practice or a student play at a lesson.  Because I’m easily overstimulated by lots of sound, when I’m doing something that…

There aren’t many images this time, because quite frankly, I was enjoying sitting next to the water, watching the clouds too much to take many pictures.  There were lots of small scattered thundershowers over the Lake, which made for excellent cloud watching.

Just this last weekend I tried sliced grilled beets at a friend’s house.  Trying a new food is a rare thing for me.  I have a lot of food aversions, and I am often very anxious about trying something new.  When I do try something new, I almost always don’t…

Last Friday YaYa had a dance recital, and our neighbors half way down the street came along for the performance.  I had to drop her off about an hour and a half before the performance, so we headed to our absolute favorite pizza place, Vitta Pizza.  It did not take…

In the ten years we’ve lived here, we’ve only stopped to play at this boat one time before this week, and that time was long, long before this little guy was born.  Every time we drive by it, I think, Oh, we should stop there and play some time, but…

It was a very rainy week here, solid wetness for days on end.  I’m not complaining.  It really can’t rain too much for me.  Even when we had our big flood a few years ago, I still loved the rain.  I really enjoy precipitation in all forms, actually.  We headed…

She said to me, “Sometimes, when not a lot is going, on I just like to look up at the ceiling and find pictures in the wood.”  Our family room has a wood plank ceiling, and there are dark brown knots in the pine. Actually, I often do the same…

The Banana has had such a great time singing in the Lake Superior Youth Chorus program this year.  I knew she’d love it.  The three choirs sang in their spring concert last Saturday, and it was really fun to watch and listen to them.  So many passionate little singers!  They…