leder legends

Tomorrow morning I am heading out to Alaska. Just imagine what that would entail before the airplane! Perhaps many many months in a horse or ox drawn wagon or in a model T ford if there  were roads. Now we can get there in a few hours. I leave at 6:00 AM and arrive in Anchorage around noon their time (4:00 PM Michigan time). Ten hours! I think that's pretty miraculous! I am praying that Nathania goes into labor before I get there but one can 't rush these things! Her due date was yesterday!  Perhaps we'll arrive at the same time.

It's almost spring and I celebrated by moving rocks! A few weeks ago a friend and I had permission to raid a farmer's rock pile. There were a great many large rocks that we wanted but could not even roll to the side. Perhaps I'll recruit a few strong guys to come with us and probably also take the trailer.   So we had to "settle" for the medium size ones and the smaller "pretty" ones. In a half hour we had the bottom of our vans loaded and they were so heavy my van tilted all the way home. They are all unceremoniously dumped my yard until that day when I feel creative and energetic enough to move them.  Last Saturday I was at it again. A daughter of a friend said she had about 100-200 smallish rocks that she wanted out of her yard.  I was imagining large softball or small melon size rocks.  They were a "tad" larger! Some (most) required two hands! We got them all (in two trips ) and carted them over to one of the rental properties. Again my...

A few years ago (is it 8 already?) a group of five ladies from PHCRC decided to celebrate our husbands' 60th birthdays. We had a blast and have been a group ever since. We try to go out for dinner about once a month and we usually go to restaurants that will honor 4 or 5  -buy one entree and get one free -coupons. The challenge is finding "that" restaurant. It's fun to get a deal but not entirely necessary! Every once in a while we splurge. This month we headed (sans coupons) to The Heritage, the restaurant linked to the culinary arts program of the local community college. We had some very fine meals.  Two dishes were prepared table side. You will have to agree after seeing the photos that the food was amazing. Nothing bad comes out of that kitchen because  the instructors keep a  watchful eye. The first was a sea scallop appetizer. It was such fun to see it in "flames"!  The sauce was pancetta, scallions, garlic, heavy cream with freshly ground salt a...