There were just too too many stories to talk about during the week John came to celebrate his birthday along with Vinnie and Lisa so I thought I would just do a final photo montages. Here is the first! Wooden taxidermy anyone? A new game to play when wandering the shores of Discovery Park – [...] Read More

Back on January 6th I posted a picture of my beautiful sister LuAnn who had transformed herself on a wintery Asheville night into a Russian beauty by donning a black fur hat. Well, you know how they say dogs and their owners look like? Check out LuAnn’s cute rescue pooch Molly. This is a whole [...] Read More

We love self-timers! And that is coffee with Bailey’s in our cups (starting early? why not, it’s Christmas!) The order of events: breakfast, presents, collapse! Champagne is a MUST for Christmas morning! John gets a BIG surprise! We had to coordinate big time with Vinnie on sneaking this new mountain bike into the basement and [...] Read More

Marc and I spent Christmas in Asheville, North Carolina with my sister LuAnn, brother John and his partner Vinnie and their 4 wiener dogs and 6 cats. Needless to say, we have a wonderful wonderful time! The following 3 posts will be all about Christmas. What we Did. What we Ate. And how we spent [...] Read More

We took the 30 minute train to Winterthur to visit Marc’s Godmother Christina, Ursula and a bunch of cousins and nieces and nephews. Christina and Ursula have the house in Tuscany Marc and I visited after we first met. We baked pizzas in the outdoor pizza oven using vegetables from the crazy overrun garden. We [...] Read More

These gorgeous Fall trees are on the side yard of John and Vinnie’s house in Asheville, North Carolina. A stone’s throw from the Blue Ridge Mountains I can hardly imagine what the entire area is going to look like in about a week. I will beg John to send more pictures. I’m a Fall freak, [...] Read More

I am soooo jealous! John and Vinnie, along with friends Ken and Joe headed up from North Carolina to Virginia to go cycling on the Virginia Creeper trail. All in all, it’s a 35 mile trail of what used to be railroad track and now is just for hiking, biking and camping. You cross over [...] Read More