Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Historic church with beautiful acoustics

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Nice article about my aunt and uncle's efforts to preserve one of the last buildings left from Preston Ranch - it's church: Cloverdale site testament to religious leader, healer The acoustics in that church are supreme for classical and folk instruments. The room is 100% seasoned wood paneling, giving it perfect ...

Turkey, turkey

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

We just survived our first T-Day in our new house. Headcount was 13 including us, and we are all stuffed. For the main course, I did Alton Brown's Roast Turkey recipe, and it was damn good. I followed it pretty close but forgot to give the turkey it's tinfoil hat ...

Dylan Walks

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Dylan is officially walking as of today. When I first got home he just out of the blue took about four steps. Then a few more things like that in the kitchen. Finally, just now, he got up and did about 20 steps right across the kitchen and into the ...

Grandma’s Cinnamon Rolls

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Oh yes. As part of the ongoing effort to preserve some of my grandmothers' best recipes, I offer you the source code for her cinnamon rolls. I think that for most of us, this was our favorite. It was for me. I am going to give this a try next ...

Priorities

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

This came up in an interesting discussion today: What are your top three or four priorities? Everyone had the most interesting responses, and it was really insightful to hear what people had going on in their lives. Such a wide variety of answers, each very dependent on one's life experiences ...