It snowed on September 30th. The forecast said that snow was coming, but you know how weather forecasters are often wrong. I was sure that this would be another example. When I looked up average temperatures at Lake Chelan in September, the average high is 70 degrees, and the low is 60 degrees. For October,...
A little over ten years ago, my friend, Mona, loaned me her copy of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. If you haven’t read it, it is a well-written story about her family’s adventures of moving to Virginia, growing their food, and a commitment to eating local. The stories...
We are in Tuscany this week! Il Nido is a lovely home that we are renting from a friend of a friend.
It’s finally happening! We’re in the final stretch of accomplishing a big milestone for ourselves, moving to our happy place in Chelan, Washington. This journey has been wonderful, and sometimes frustratingly, imperfect. It started with a weekend away during our first year together. We were staying at a cute bed and breakfast in the...
