Home Maintenance Boot Camp

Everyone should plan a home maintenance boot camp with his or her kids in the summer. I have three teen boys and I know their dad spends time with them and teaches them how to use tools for woodworking, general maintenance, and do welding and many other things, but I thought that we hadn’t spent…

I love the Fair!

I’ve always loved the fair, since I joined 4H when I was 10. We had cattle, so my first introduction to the fair was showing a heifer. Too bad I can’t find a picture of me in my cowboy boots and belt with the Elvis belt buckle and my name burned in to the back…

Win What You Do Enter!

I must have been really hungry when I signed up for culinary arts entries for the San Mateo County Fair because I ended up entering 9 food items (3 of which were brownies). As I perused the fair catalog deciding what to enter, I kept notes as to what I might want to enter and…

Remembering Peach

Our little kitty, Peach, died a couple of weeks ago. We only had him for about 6 months. We adopted him in early November from the Peninsula Humane Society (where we had previously adopted 3 kittens). McKinley and I had gone there on a Friday afternoon in October to check out the black cats, which…