Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The Banana didn’t feel like going to the beach. The Devious Snail was working. Dr. Peds and Mr. TOF were at a baseball end-of-the-season celebration, so I ended up heading to the beach all by myself again! I brought a book with me and hiked in to the Secluded beach,…

Recently my Instacart shopper mistakingly read my order for 20 bananas and delivered 20 POUNDS of bananas. I learned that 20 pounds of bananas is a lot of bananas! On the bright side, I haven’t been able to make banana muffins for months on end because the bananas never get…

He’s my best worker guy! Persistent and consistent, he just does a great job. I’ve even given him a raise for his lawn mowing success! We hadn’t mowed the lawn for a long time because it had been dry, dry, dry. There were patches of green grass slowly growing, and…

Grandma Kathy came with us to the beach! After I dropped the Devious Snail off at camp and drove back home, we clamored into the van for a peaceful night at the secret beach. The kidlets swam, of course, and found some sea glass. Grandma enjoyed sitting on a rock…

It has been a hot and dry summer, and while we are faring a little better than a lot of other nearby places, it is still alarmingly dry. When we got two big thunderstorms within days of each other it was pretty glorious to watch the rain, and best of…

Grandma Kathy spent the weekend with us! It was lovely to have her. She brought us lettuce from her garden and took special care to take each kidlet out to do something special with her. Mr. TOF went to have a rueben sandwich and ice cream, and the Devious Snail…

We took Cousin Alex to the Secret Beach to swim, jump off the rock, and look for sea glass. The water happened to be delightful, so there was much fun splashing about and jumping.

On our way home from our trip to North Dakota, we picked up my nephew and brought him to Camp Aunt Rachel. It was a fun filled week that included a lot of LEGOS, water, and the traditional trip to the Timber Twister Alpine coaster, which is always thrilling. One…

It had been a ridiculously long time since we had visited my parents because of the pandemic. It was an exciting weekend filled with cousins, sugar, fresh air, bike riding, pie, prairie trail walks and runs, gopher hunting and other sources of goodness. (The Devious Snail may have stayed up…

I was alone at the beach! The Banana was napping. Dr. Peds and the Devious Snail were working and then cooked on the grill at our neighbor’s house. I waited for Mr. TOF to get back from baseball practice before I left for the beach, but he ended up being…