True to their word Elizabeth and Annabella hopped a Friday morning flight to Seattle and the rest just kind of wrote itself. Here is a sneak preview of the beach right across the street from our hotel – the Outlook Inn in Eastsound – that I wandered around early Sunday morning while the others were [...] Read More

Wow, this is the kind of day dreams are made of! At least my dreams being the Autumn-addict that I am! Yesterday (Sunday) we took a walk into Queen Anne with jackets buttoned in search of coffee (and a birthday card). The right coffee is easy to find, the right birthday card is another story…. [...] Read More

Thanks to modern technology – and in this case the wonders of SKYPE, although I now live in Seattle and my book club is in Los Angeles I was still able to participate via this application! Of course this was not nearly as fun (or easy) as actually being there but at least it was [...] Read More

Wow, Ralph Lauren really raises the bar on their Fall website!( Can’t wait to see how JCrew will counter!) They say the future of online advertising is all about video and here it is! And how dang cute! Although a little long, they certainly show a lot of merchandise all layered up in that Ralph [...] Read More

As you may or may not know, we are moving to Seattle! My life is turned inside out in a mess of boxes and packing materials and I am so over it! We are down to the nitty gritty, all the little leftovers you just don’t know what box to stick them in. I guess [...] Read More

In the frenzy of moving I am asking businesses for leftover packing material (trying to be frugal and green!) and have discovered that places receive big shipments of lots of “stuff” on a weekly basis are great places to ask for packing material. For example at TJ Max I asked for and got a HUGE [...] Read More

Sorry this post got a little bit delayed but here he is, our Cozy Cat of the week, Milo Patson. Milo is a Snowshoe Siamese and is 15 years old. Milo had a bit of a diabetic drama last week but with the excellent care of his “parents” he seems to be fully recovered. Boy [...] Read More