Easter is just another Polish eating holiday.  That’s a good thing though.  I love the foods at Easter.  Zurek soup (no kidding) is a fermented soup only had at this holiday.  Me, I would have it all the time.  I love the sour flavor with the hard boiled egg, sausage, and rye bread.  Actually, that’s about […]

I’ve had this ugly bare spot in front of the patio.  The grass grows fine, but it just had no color or appeal.  I sit out on the patio in my jake chair quite a bit.  Last year, I planted dahlias in this spot. They grew very well and made the area looked pretty.  The […]

No, this is not dominoes.  One of my all time favorite quilt patterns is the tumbling block.  I like to refer to it when I can.  It’s my blog; I can do what I want with it. Because he was experiencing repetitive motion pains in his wrists, I wanted to change out Rick’s desk with […]

I can’t believe that Spring has come to stay.  I know that is going to change in a day or so here, but even that will seem like Spring!  I’ve been enjoying my Spring evenings.  It’s nice enough to be outside and do a few things.  I’m trying to hold back on any gardening just […]

Sorry, but this one is a little bit of downer.  Last Friday, a huge tornado hit very close to my hometown.  Henryville IN is only 20 miles up the road for my little town.  A lot of people I know live up that way.  Luckily, no one I know was hurt and my family is […]

I started to write about this subject yesterday, but the guys got me distracted with the Rick and Sascha story.  So here was my original idea for yesterday’s blog. I noticed that Sascha is developing her own ideas about how the household should be run.  Most of these ideas are centered around her.  I wonder […]

Rick has been having some trouble with his wrists for the last couple of weeks.  At night, the pain tends to get unbearable.  I had thought it might be growing pains, but the rest of his joints were fine.  He takes aspirin for the pain when it is bad.  However, Rick inherited an unusual swallowing […]

This is another Sascha story, I promise. Rich likes to watch Nadia G. on the other food channel.  I have a hard time watching all of that going on and listening to the accent.  Last week, Rich was watching Nadia and thought the recipe sounded good.  That’s besides getting his entertainment value from watching Nadia […]

This is not about what the title sounds like.  My friends, Kim and Diane, came up this morning for breakfast and then to bowl a couple of games.  See not Thanksgiving turkeys. Diane has a new goal in her life.  She wants to beat Rich at bowling for at least one game.  Today, she was […]

I noticed on my phone this morning that I had a weather warning.  I opened it to check out what could be causing the red exclamation point.  Wow!  It was going to be a good one.  And we’ve had such a mild winter for Chicago. The report said that from 6:00 pm to 9:00 am […]