Author: Annie

They say that after a vacation you need a vacation, and that’s the case for us! We spent our time running, running, running – checking under sinks and looking for damp spots in basements. When we arrived home we hit the ground running – Gerry’s just about painted the finished room in the basement (it…

Some shots from the state fair, and my little movie from my little elph camera. Just for fun! Burn, baby, burn!

I wanted to take a moment to assure my commentors & readers a few things: • We’re not planning on buying the airplane house (and, yes, much of the ivy had been taken down before we visited, and I made my real estate agent nuts with my constant comments about how damanging vines can be…

We arrived back in Newark today, our flight was delayed about 40 minutes and we circled the ‘berg, each minute just slightly lower in the sky, the air pressure pounding my eardrums. Ouch. I’ve always been sensitive to air pressure, especially on a plane. About 30 years ago I flew into Dublin and after the…

We’re all sad to be leaving the Twin Cities and outlying regions. We had SUCH a wonderful time here (an odd vacation, to be sure, but a wonderful one!) Our weather timing was exquisite – it rained when we arrived, but that cleared up in a day. We had sunny days and cool nights, perfect…

This morning I recieved the COLOR, FINISHED copy of Twist & Loop! I’m SO excited – it’s absolutely lovely – and I cannot WAIT until this is actually on the market (10/24!!) I’m hoping that the beauty of the photos and simplicity of the instructions will make even those who can’t see themselves as wire…

Today we veged around the house all morning – Gerry took the kids for a drive to buy milk and find a playground we’d spied before (they couldn’t find it…) and I spent the alone time writing up two patterns for IK’s book, Folk Style (they were late – sorry Mags!) and tried as best…

It’s absoutely the BEST time to go to any outside event when it’s cloudy, intermittently raining and folks are scared off by possible thunderstorms. Ah, life is good for the very, very fair people on a rainy day at the fair. No sunburn, no sunblock, and very few lines! The kids were NUTS to get…

Last night after just hanging out around the lake rental, driving up to St. Cloud for some lunch and then back home for another killer game of Sorry!, the kids and Gerry and I started a little fire in the pit down by the lake – bunching up newspapers and laying out the logs. It…

We spent the day looking at homes in St. Paul (and saw some LOVELY ones!) getting new ones on our list and scoping out properties that we won’t be able to get into until later this week. I think the more we look the more we are settled on a Duplex (if we can find…