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Our neighbor and friend Bill Watson passed away today. He and members of his extended family have been residents of our cove community for decades. Our friendship with him was mostly limited to the delightful cove tradition of visiting in the road as one or the other...
Our very good friend Ken Wynsma passed away this evening. We first met in early in 2006 as Steve was learning the basics of silversmithing at The Arts Center in St Petersburg. Ken quickly became not only a mentor in the art of working metal but a treasured friend....
A busy fun autumn day covering all the aspects of why we love living here. Started the day with a trip to Farmer's Market to pick up our farm share box. Also got some homegrown indian corn, home baked pumpkin bread, hand crafted mozzarella cheese, and locally grown...
More Rain! It has rained every day this week. Okay, not continuous rain the whole time. We've seen a little bit of sunshine. But it has rained more than not. When it's not raining rain, it's raining autumn leaves! It's been a good week for indoor projects and we've...
Busy this morning with processing seventeen half pints of applesauce. Yum! Still have a lot more to make and process - more tomorrow. More time spent on organizing our technical life. Errands in town. Sunshine. Autumn leaves. Perfect temperatures outside. Good day!
Today was a day of mixed reviews. We had some frustrating technical problems related to migrating our website. The weather was gloomy. Yes we need the rain, and it's a wonderfully slow soaking rain. We made wonderful things happen in the kitchen. The bushel of...
Today was an incredibly rich day in the mountains. It's Apple Squeezing Time. We started the day with a quick trip into town. Had to try the just baked Pumpkin Bagel at Annie's and stop by the Tailgate Market for our CSA farm share, some handmade Mozzarella, an...
After some seven years of hosting a webpage on .Mac and then on MobileMe, we are taking it down as we are concurrently building this site on Light in the Basement. Our initial reaction to the news that Apple hosting of iWeb built sites would be going away was of...
Friends Donna and Jerry picked us up and together we rode into town with the top of their convertible down and our hair blowing in the wind on a glorious 77 degree afternoon to meet friends of theirs who are in the process of designing their dream home in the...
Had originally thought to post today about Apple's media event yesterday and some of the awesome capabilities of the newest iPhone, etc. Was wowed about the partnership with WolframAlpha. But that has now been eclipsed by the news that the world has lost Steve Jobs....
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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More than once we heard that if we're headed north, we ought to consider Starved Rock State Park. We were warned to go mid-week since it's crowded with Chicagoans on the weekend. We checked the website for the campground and noticed a large number of first-come,...
In 1831 Abraham Lincoln, then a young adult, chose New Salem, Illinois as his home. Although at that point he didn't have any particular life ambitions, there were people in this newly established community that would offer a young Abe employment, lodging, and...
Today was a travel day, albeit a short one, from Rochester to New Salem, communities on either side of Springfield, Illinois. Our habit of late is to enjoy some leisure on either side of the travel. Thus we didn't plan to have anything worth blogging about. We'd...