He’s Home!

I can finally let that big breath out that I’ve been holding for the last twelve months.  He landed around 5:30 yesterday afternoon.  Before I get into the reunion story here, I want to give a huge Thank You to Operation - Welcome Home Maryland, a wonderful group of people I wrote about in an [...]

Grappa and wild boar

We are in Tuscany in a small town called Greve taking our 3 day cooking class.  Last night, we tried Grappa for the first time.  Grappa is liquor made from distilled grapes and is ridiculously potent - similar to moonshine in the U.S.  It’s 40-50 proof if that gives you any idea.  Our hostess’ husband [...]

Halloween memories

A few years ago when we lived in our last house, Obi-Wan was in the middle of a flooring project.  He was installing hardwood floors on our first floor and as it happens, he was doing this on Halloween.  So when it came time for the trick or treaters to hit the streets, windows and curtains [...]

Memories

I was going through my scrapbooking stuff today trying to organize it and I came across our best man’s toast to us at our wedding.  He had written it down on index cards and gave it to me after the wedding.  It brought back a lot of great memories of that day so I thought I [...]