Happy New Year my blog-reading friends. Here's hoping that 2015 is happy and healthy for all.

 Last weekend a few of our gang at work decided to stat setting up our display at the park.  Our sign will light up and hopefully e...

 Chantal and her son Zavier came over to decorate cupcakes...  Zavier drew his Minecraft characters with edible markers on fondant ...

 Over the weekend, the  Glengarry Pioneer Museum  in Dunvegan  hosted a reenactment of the War of 1812. Participants camped on the ground...

 I go the most delicious delivery this afternoon.  I had a feeling that the metallic bubble wrap, squishy peanuts and dry ice  co...

As an addendum to my post The End of an Era , here's the stove's replacement. It's fun to learn how to use this new stove...a...

 It was time to bid adieu to Richard's old Focus.  And to say hello to a bright blue Toyota Matrix. I'm looking forwa...

My parents got this Jenn-Air stove in 1978 and it has cooked many a meal! My mother loved the cook top that allowed you to grill indoors (...

 My friend Natalie made truffle mice for the holidays.  Richard ate them very much like my cat Cookie eats hers -- tails last! ...

 I had this really really old sofa that my parents bought in the 1970s. I also had a pee pee cat who loved the sofa. When Cinnamon died, I...

1993-2012. You were a true friend who always delivered the goods and scrubbed every trace of gravy off every plate. Solid and reliable fri...

When you enter the Musee Mechanique located on Pier 45 of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, you are greeted by the Gypsy Queen. ...