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

THERE’S NO SIBLING RIVALRY HERE! THE UPPER TOMATOES ARE BEING IN GROWN BY MY BROTHER JOHN IN ASHEVILLE, NC AND THESE LOWER SLICED BEAUTIES ARE COURTESY OF SISTER LISA IN THOUSAND OAKS, CA! HOW GORGEOUS ARE THESE? AND I BET THEY TASTED JUST AS DELICIOUS. WE ALL KNOW SOME SALT, PEPPER AND A LITTLE EXTRA [...] Read More