Super Rachel Zana's Spot

We’ve had our toaster since we’ve gotten married.  It has four slots for extra thick bread, and I haven’t encountered a lot of toasters like that.  I like our toaster a great deal.  However, in its old age it is getting to be a bit unpredictable, and if you don’t watch…

  Last weekend I traveled with the Arrowhead Chorale to Winnipeg, Manitoba for a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and The Winnipeg Singers (a professional chorale ensemble). It meant getting up before sunrise to get on a bus as the sun was rising so that we…

We were waiting for YaYa who was having a piano lesson, and decided to take a quick walk around the block.  There are two Little Free Libraries within a block of YaYa’s piano teacher’s house.  When we got to the second library, Mt. TOF pulled out a Disney book from…

Last weekend I hopped on a charter bus with the Arrowhead Chorale last weekend to travel to Winnipeg for a performance (a post is coming about that soon). Before I left my little guy with very mixed emotions said, “I’m really happy you are going to have fun singing, but…

About five weeks ago my external CD/DVD drive randomly stopped working.  I discovered in the morning one day when I was in a tremendous rush to burn a CD to use at a music class that I teach.  The drive wouldn’t read the CD no matter what I tried.  It…

Mr. TOF and I were reading a children’s picture  book.  At the end of the book, a mean and nasty Rat repented of his thieving ways and spent the rest of his life sweeping in a cake shop. Me:  If your job was sweeping every day, where would you want…

Someone, and I’m not really actually sure who, managed to slice through the edge of a feather pillow with a fingernail clipper. You can about imagine the glorious mess. Classic. Luckily, YaYa could be bribed with a steep payment to do a patch-up job, and I still have a pillow…

It was crazy hot on Friday.  Ninety degrees out of absolutely nowhere.  Hot enough to make me want to crawl out of my skin.  It’s never hot like that next to Lake Superior in May.  In fact, the Monday before it was barely 40 degrees.  We could hardly function.  In…

I zoomed around the corner on Friday afternoon and found this lovely lady.  Since the cello arrived in the house a 1.25 years ago, she’s often tricked people into believing that a curvy little person is standing at the bottom of the stairs or against a wall.  The case is…