Family

The Easter Bunny came early Sunday morning then after breakfast we went to Easter Mass at St Michael's. While Rhonda cooked up an awesome feast Riley helped Nana clean the beaters and helped Grandpop solve a diabolical Sudoku game.  

The drive from Tween Creeks to North Canton takes us every bit of ten hours, especially when a lot of the drive is through driving rain. But we arrived in time for dinner. Riley was so glad to see us that she volunteered to "help" us set up our camp bed in her Dad's...

Lots of activity at the house. It feels a little like a beehive. Some things are going according to plan but there are also unexpected discoveries and new plans that need to be made. We're trying to focus on how nice things will be when it is all done. In the meantime...

We woke up to snow falling and went to sleep to snow falling. And it fell nearly the whole time in between. With some trepidation we chose to drove to Asheville and join our friend, Kim, at a Westwood community dinner. We got there and home again safely but drove...

Another part of becoming a member of the community is being granted access to the public library. We applied and were given probationary cards. Hopefully in three months we will qualify for full library privileges.

Yesterday we met friends Tim and Vickie at Newfound Gap. They began hiking the Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain in Georgia on March 15th and plan to through hike to Mt Katahdin, Maine. We lunched with them at a restaurant in Cherokee then took them to a...

The remodeling project began in earnest yesterday. One of the first projects was to replace the old electric tank water heater with a new propane tankless water heater. It was a two day project so when we returned home with our guests last evening we discovered we had...

Emily's description of today was "We drove a long time to get to a forest named after some poet who wrote some poem and had to walk a really long way to see some trees." For the rest of us, our visit to Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest was a visit to a wonderland. It's...

Matt, Emily, and Cathy thought they were on vacation but we tricked them into helping us move all of our books from our downstairs library to our upstairs loft. Tomorrow our remodeling project begins. After that task was done we ventured over to Riverwood to see some...

We've been without a real bed of our own since the waning days of August 2008. Our bedroom furniture was too massive for this house so we gifted it to a friend just before we left St Petersburg. Since then we have slept on an air mattress unless we were in a hotel or...