We had tickets to the Mariners game this last Saturday, courtesy of Auntie.  And due to a confluence of events, we had extra tickets on hand.  Grandma was willing to watch Rerun for us, and we had already planned on taking Ane and Tad.  But we still had extra tickets.  Our regular baseball-watching friends, Friend […]

And not just cupcakes.  Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes. I made them for Sunday night dessert at Friend and Doc’s, when we had more company than usual with some mutual friends.  Auntie had made some chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and offered me some, so the kids had those.  The grown-ups got these. Verdict was that […]

The Webmaster’s college friend and roommate A.S. posted on Facebook recently that he was finally taking his toys out of his mother’s attic, which included a lot of well-loved vintage Star Wars toys.  Some friends had already taken some things – like a majority of the action figures – but there were still some good, […]

Well, I’m off to the zoo again today.  Tad has a field trip. But when we went to the zoo this last Monday (we had to go and pick up our new membership cards), we ran into Friend and Doc and the boys.  It was funny, because they were coming over to our house for […]