Look what Bea made for me – the tiniest, sweetest little Christmas tree. I love it!

I've been baking almost everyday. Brian gave me a special bread baking dish for my birthday – it's for no-knead type bread. It does the same thing as a dutch oven but because it's smaller and shaped for a loaf the bread comes out better. So I've been making all our bread. I made doughnuts…

We went to the Chicago Botanic Garden's Lightscape for the second year in a row. It's all outside – a path through the gardens that is filled with a variety of light displays and music too. This year it felt especially special because so many other holiday things are cancelled. A lovely evening spent with…

Well as the pandemic situation is still serious so we are spending all our time at home. I'm a little worried we might loose our minds in the next months. Brian spends so much time working in his office and the girls seems to have some sort of fight every night at the dinner table.…

Brian and I went for a walk in the woods last weekend. We went to one of the forest preserves near us – the Allison Woods area. We walked and talked. Talking mostly about the Coronavirus vaccine. Brian knows a lot about each company that is producing the vaccines and how each vaccine is different.…

It's been a little over three years since my dad passed away and I finally got around to framing some of his flies. He really was talented. He could make anything – big or small. I can remember him showing me how to make flies in his workshop. He had so many interesting fly tying…