Author: Annie

Last night was “Back to School” night, we met our kid’s teachers and the new principal of Seth Boyden. It didn’t go stellar for me (I visited Hannah’s teachers, Gerry visited Max’s teacher) and I think we may have some decisions to make. Apparently Hannah’s been having a hard time with her homework. They really…

Max has night writing every evening, and according to his teacher we’re not supposed to help him with his spelling, etc., for the first few weeks so she can get a handle on where the kids need help. I didn’t read this note until a few days ago, so she’s probably thinking that Max has…

The Amazing Race is back on the air, and life is good! Our family LOVES this show – although they’re a little heavy on the beauty queens, models and cheerleaders this time around (if that bandana chick claps her hands one more time – oy~!) I told Gerry that what they really need is a…

It doesn’t happen to me very often, but every now and then when I do a killer amount of knitting I get aching hands. Actually, all of my muscles have been aching, which is probably the rain, the coming Autumn, the work on the house – just life and getting older – but the piece…

This dopey youtube obsession and imovie are time eaters. I knit all day, I knit all evening and I’ll be knitting tomorrow all day. I took a break (2 hours) and whipped up this very odd thing. Enjoy. Appetizing, Older House for Sale Yesterday at the Realtor Open House there were 27 folks – our…

The past few days have been so full of emotion – contemplating a move from a home and community we love, dealing with the 911 memories, dealing with the memories of all of my relatives who have passed since 911 (somehow I just lump all of that together in my mind (probably not a good…

We are in the final round of cleaup (last night Gerry and I were up late tossing all kinds of things into the dumpster – the neighbors LOVE us!) and one of our last tasks is to get rid of the foggy, awful back porch doors. So, in an effort to make this a little…

Can you believe that ABC is going to run a partisan lie of a “docu-drama” on the events leading up to 911 on Sunday – an exploitation to get ratings and to raise a certain political agenda? I’m stunned. They allude that this is based on the 911 report, but it contains dialogue and scenes…

The past few days have been a whirl of physical labor, with not much time for my brain work (stop snickering) and my needlework. So today – at least until Gerry or the kids get home – is devoted to sitting on my bottom and finishing some samples, finessing an intarsia chart, all that other…

We have achieved Dumpster. It’s a rite of passage here in NJ (I think it’s in the state constitution that everone has to have a dumpster on their property once every 15 years…) and we have a lovely Mauriello Bros Dumpster in our backyard. Now we start tossing things into it with wild abandon (and…