by Monica | Jan 19, 2009 | Announcements
Mark and I had a fabulous time in Victoria! We try to get up there once or twice a year, sometimes with friends and sometimes not. My parents gave us a weekend at the WorldMark Resort (thank you mom and dad!) so we made a long weekend out of it and got some much...
by Monica | Jan 12, 2009 | Announcements
My Ya-Ya Sister Linda turned 50 at the end of December and we were lucky enough to be invited to a dinner party in her honor. I had not blogged about it because I had not asked her permission but it seems she has given it in writing so here we go! Linda asked for a...
by Monica | Jan 1, 2009 | Announcements
I am sorry that I have been away so long! First the hard drive on my computer went bad. Then the blog server had script errors (or something like that) that took days for my web guru to fix. Then my home Internet connection went south and over the course of the past...
by Monica | Dec 9, 2008 | Announcements
So while we were in Bingen for Thanksgiving my parents stayed one night at the Inn of the White Salmon. My mom and I got a tour from the owner, who has been there about a year and is slowly remodeling the space. The downstairs hall is light and bright with local art...
by Monica | Nov 30, 2008 | Announcements
Are you still stuffed from Thanksgiving? We had some fabulous food! Our heritage turkey was super flavorful and moist, we all loved it. We were surprised at the amount of meat on the carcass: we knew we were used to ‘beefed up’ turkeys, but we had no idea...