It’s gotta be good, right?!

When the restaurant is nestled between a water fountain and chocolate syrup, you know they’re gonna have good food.  Especially is something like fried mush is on the menu!  Laura and I ended up trying this place in the back of Dot’s Market for her birthday.  A good choice for sure!

I thought this shot gave a cool aesthetic

John & Savannah had SO MANY blackberries this year❣️

But wow, do blackberries fight back when you try and steal their babies!  I was picking thorns out of my hands and arms for days after I gathered a pint.  It’s almost like they wrap around you and pull you in when you try and pick a berry, haha!

Moo-Shoo, glue-shoo project update!

Savannah finally finished her stain glass project of her sister’s dog Moo-Shoo.  They took to calling the artwork “glue-shoo” since it was a bunch of pieces of the dog glued together, haha.  Final touches being worked on in the left pic and final version in the right.  It’s crazy she’s picked this up so quickly in only four projects.  Really cool.  We’re looking forward to seeing it hanging in the sun!

Cool bug shot and colors.

This little guy was on my car window sill.  He was less than a quarter inch long.  Compare his size to the grains of the upholstery he’s standing on…!

OG Pound cake recipe?

We keep finding older and older versions of the pond cake recipe that Julie’s mom used to make Julie for her birthday.  This one was handwritten in the back of a mid-1900’s cookbook that was probably Julie’s grandma’s. 

A little dose of Zoe

In case there hasn’t been enough of her on my blog already…

The boys were laughing at my “cute” weight setup

We repurposed Andy’s old weight bench and found some plates and bars on Facebook Marketplace. 

Julie and I have time to work on keeping sarcopenia at bay these days.  It’s nice to be back at it.  Been a couple decades since I was lifting weights.  Of course, my daily work and stuff around the house kept me in decent enough shape.  Now I can focus on it a little more intentionally. 

Take your parents to work day…

We were picking John up from work to go car shopping and he offered to give us a quick tour. It was fun having him sign us in, seeing so many samples of his work (especially Chocolate milk!), and even taking home some free samples of coffee!! We were glad we got a little window into his day.  Looks like a great place to work and he’s really enjoying the creative side of it too.

Julie’s feeder is really popular with the marauders too!

It’s just as fun to watch the squirrels helping themselves.  This guy treats it like a Ponderosa buffet! 

Pretty cool Timex offerings these days….

My dad and I were always Timex guys at heart.  He might have found it interesting how they’ve upped their game! I found this little gem in their newer offerings.  Pretty sharp! Lines right up with some of the fanciest brands out there and holds its own against them for a fraction of the price.  It’s a GMT style, which is a whole other wormhole haha.  It shows a couple time zones (red hand with the triangle) and shows 24 hour time (which I prefer anyhow).  It’s a fitting relaxed way to tell time. i.e. “a little past 10”, “almost 10:30” instead of fretting about the minutes.    

And yes, I may be ill with my collection…🤪

A low carb diet, suuuuure… 🤪



We get the sodas to lure the boys over more often.  It works! Hahaha.

We also keep bite size chocolate around for little desserts on occasion. It seems we had just run out of all of them at the same time coincidentally. 

And what’s with the creepy, scary soda box?! Some kind of video game collab I guess?

Don’t worry about my stickers, patches and badges

I moved a lot of them, the best ones, to my office ❤️

Just a nice view of of the sunset

This time of year, the sun sets so far to the north west that it is on the other end of the house from where it normally is the rest of the year.

This was the species of bird that visited us yesterday.

Julie found this cool pic of one on-line.  We hope to see our little red-headed woodpecker friend again soon! It’s the first one we’ve seen around here. We see several other species frequently, so…🤞🏻