Super Rachel Zana's Spot

When it snowed a couple of weeks ago before we had even had a frost, I groaned, thinking for sure that all the leaves on the trees would not even get a chance to turn before they shriveled up brown and dropped to the soggy ground. But strangely enough, even…

Currently the family room is covered in Legos. Over the weekend these two kidlets started building castles, houses, and Lego scenes of every kind. The Banana joined in now and then as well. There are Legos on blankets, Legos on the activity table, Legos under the couch, on the couch,…

Ahhh. A toasty fire. A peaceful harp. It all makes for a nice day in the living room.

The Banana has been waiting a decade for pierced ears. When she was a tiny little girl, Grandma Kathy suggested that she could come to celebrate The Banana’s thirteenth birthday and they would get her ears pierced. The Banana has been highly anticipating her thirteenth birthday ever since. A few…

A week ago on Saturday, the kidlets and I found ourselves in Moorhead, Minnesota with time to spend. We drove to Moorhead to take YaYa to participate in Double Reed Day at Concordia College, and we needed to find things to do to occupy the day. The options were a…

While I was out walking in the neighborhood over the past few weeks, I noticed a couple of new little libraries! One was just around the corner tucked into a street I normally don’t walk down, and another beautiful big library house appeared on a street I walk down all…

Although I am still tweaking things here and there, through a series of trial and error, I learned to install a new theme for my blog and customize changes to it. At the piano, I have just about completely learned that violin accompaniment that I’ve been talking about for months…

In our neighborhood people are stacking wood next to their outdoor saunas, stacking wood on their front porches for their woodturning fireplaces and wood stoves, and chewing up some of the first fallen leaves with their lawnmowers. Ripening apples on trees are anticipated, and Concord grapes are being harvested from…