Apples, apples, everywhere

I just thought I would share of couple of the many, many apple recipes I will be making over the next several weeks.  Can someone tell me why I felt compelled to purchase the most enormous sack of apples available to me instead of the smaller, more reasonably sized bag?  Obviously, I wasn’t using my [...]

Apple picking

  
  
Yesterday, I spent a very summer-like day doing my favorite fall activity – apple picking.   We always try to line up our yearly foray to Nashoba Valley Winery to coincide with one of their fall festivals.  This year, it was the “Bands and Brews” festival which consisted of, well, bands and brews.  There were some [...]

A little bit sad

I had a little moment of sadness today when I looked at my calendar and realized that this is the weekend of the half marathon that I was planning to run.  I felt a pang when I thought of where I should be in my training right now.  Instead, I can’t even remember the last [...]

Speaking of 90 year olds…

When exactly did I become one?  Here’s the deal:  I’ve been really frustrated about the fact that I spend a friggin’ fortune on groceries every week.  I set myself a weekly budget of $125 dollars per week.  Why on God’s green earth can’t I stay under that?  I know I sound like an old lady [...]

97

 
This weekend, I went to Chatham to celebrate my Nana’s 97th (!) birthday.  It was a nice, but bittersweet day.  She’s doing fairly well but her short term memory is completely gone and she sometimes gets confused.  It makes me sad but I try to remind myself that she IS 97 after all and it’s [...]

So excited

Barry came home on Monday night with a late anniversary present for me – Sox tickets!!  Woo hoo!!  Have I ever mentioned how much I love my husband?  This probably can’t top the ALDS sweep he took me to in 2004, but hey, I’ll take it.  I can’t wait for 6:30 tonight.  I hope this day passes [...]

Puppy photo shoot

             
I had a lot of time to myself this weekend since Barry was off at the Sox game on Friday and working all day Saturday.  I used some of the time to torture my dogs with the camera.  I was cleaning house when I caught them snuggled up in a sun spot on [...]