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…

I went a little crafty crazy last week. I was inspired by the collage artwork by Clare Youngs and the cut paper artwork by Loise Lockhart. I bough this felt Santa at Goodwill a long time ago. I love him but he's really beat up so I wanted to recreate him in a sturdier version.…

This year Thanksgiving was different. Because of the Covid pandemic we didn't get together with anyone. We still spent a fun day in the kitchen but I realized the best part of Thanksgiving is the way we get together to share a big job. I love that time of chatting and laughing and working with…

I harvested the last of my beet greens this week. How nice to have something to pick in November. I had never cooked beet greens before. I boiled them in a pot of water a couple minutes and then squeezed out the extra water and then chopped them. Then I sautéed them them with olive…