The weather forecast for today was for 100 degrees here in the valley, so we needed a strategy. It was clear the deck was out as it was already blazing by 9:00 a.m…. so we grabbed our stuff… and headed south to Corvallis to pick up a car-load of reupholstered furniture… and then an iced […]
Sam Sifton in the NYTimes this week had an article on grilling and really, everything looked good…but I was especially intrigued with the grilled romaine…so we tried it. YUM. Here’s the recipe: Dressing: 1 clove garlic 6 anchovy fillets, rinsed and minced (we had no achovies in the cupboard and so omitted this time, but […]
In our two plus weeks at the beach I rode my bike around our neighborhood, Cutler City, several times a day. Sometimes I had my camera and took pictures of my favorite small cottages, the “old” Cutler City….little cottages for fishermen built on the sand. Many many of these are gone and some (like ours) […]
We just came home from two splendid weeks away at the beach house, (no media, no blogging), and one whole week Sidney was there too… We noticed he is a guy on the move…. But there were quiet moments…a quick Elmo video while breakfast was cooking… LOTS of reading, including this one from 1974 […]
This week Sidney has his first dentist appointment and we were given the day off…so I’m reaching back into my now VAST archive of pictures of this small person…and this is how he looked last year at this time…what a miracle of growth these first few years are, and how lucky we have been to […]
We were children, we are parents (some of us, anyway) we are grandparents (lucky ducks) and the wonder of living in an age when images have been captured never is more striking than when one is remembering the many moments WITH fathers, AS fathers, and on. I guess I’m not going to identify all the […]
The David Tanis “City Kitchen” column in the New York Times on Wednesday featured a recipe declaring that fresh ricotta …”Elevates the Simple to the Sublime” and it looked delicious, so we tried it. All true…this was sooooo good, and with summer coming on, you need to give it a try. Quick, easy, simple and […]
Monday is always Sidney day (thankfully)…and today there was a little clowning around… We brought Sidney a “baby grand” and first there was the moment of studying the instrument… but he got into it, and eventually even got on top of the whole thing… In the end though, it was the box that delighted…
No trips for us this summer…too much work to do…but we are thinking fondly of LAST summer when we repaired to a villa in Umbria with George, Jennifer and Fanny for a pretty fun and luxurious week which looked like this…(I’m trusting even my most stalwart readers can’t remember back this far…). R and I […]
On The Way 