We’ve arrived! Today is the first day of the New Year. Well, tomorrow, if you’re reading this on Monday night. But if you are, why aren’t you out celebrating and ringing in the New Year, hmmmmm? Anyone decide to make any New Year’s Resolutions? I generally don’t – I don’t know why, just haven’t been…
Not to make you panic or anything, but did you know there are only about 52 days left until Thanksgiving? Say what?! I’m not even going to give you the number of days until Christmas. I don’t want major panic to ensue for you or me. If you’ve been reading me for a while, you…
My brain is still not accepting the fact that summer is coming to a close. School starts this week for Princess Nagger and Little Dude – but wait…didn’t they just get out of school? Where’d the summer go?! Luckily they’re looking forward to returning to the halls of education – it’s a new adventure for Little…
It’s no secret I’m a wine girl, right? I mean, I drink wine, I make wine, I cook with wine and I drink wine. Oh wait, I already mentioned the drinking wine part. Years and years and years ago I made the unfortunate mistake of using cooking wine to enhance a recipe. You know the…
It’s been so hot so far this summer (yes, even Washington State has hot weather and not much rain during the summer months), and since we didn’t have central air up until this weekend (thank goodness we got it just before an excessive heat wave descended upon us!) we like to utilize our grill as…
We could all use a piece of nature that we can enjoy or escape to everyday. The problem is that most aquariums that we put in our homes are not sustainable ecosystems. They need maintenance like water changes, filter replacements, and the occasional algae scrub. Aqua Design Innovations, an undergraduate UCSD startup has designed the…
When we were living in Pennsylvania, it seemed the stray cats knew we were suckers for their hard luck stories and would somehow end up on our back porch or in our barn, and definitely in our hearts. Moving all the way across the country seems to make no difference – it’s like we’re kitty…
