Super Rachel Zana's Spot

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…

She’s always up to something, even when she’s not really up to anything.

I had always wanted to live in a house covered by vines. When we bought our lovely old house more than a decade ago, I was so happy, but there were a few things on my “wish list” for a house that our particular house did not have: A big,…

The bumblebees love the lavender plants on the deck. This one happened to come along right as I was sitting next to the plant with my camera.