Today is our 35th wedding anniversary. We had originally planned to do something grander than stay at home, but the pandemic....  We went ou...

Happy 2018!! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays. We are currently revamping our menu-planning and cooking habits. We actually started a ...

With our crazy weather this year, and lacking motivation, we have gotten very little finished on the house. We did manage to set up a pantry...

I was about to title this post canning peaches , but it has never made sense to me why it is called canning when we are using jars! Maybe we...

Strawberry season has finally arrived in Oregon. Jeff and I got to go pick berries at the North Willamette Research & Extension Service ...

It seems odd to pass over the house's 100th Birthday party open house and not even mention how it went. I think it went pretty well. We ...

We found a good deal on peaches so we stocked up—54 pounds! They've taken a few days to get ripe, so we're spending part of toda...

While in California I binged on fruit. We stopped by farm stands on the way from the SF Bay Area to Pioneer (where my Mom lives). My Mom m...

Today is our 23rd Wedding Anniversary! We've now been married more years than we weren't. We had a lovely visit with a friend for br...

Today is Jeff's 44th Birthday! We went out for dinner at a new place we've never been: Soluna Grill . The food was delicious. For a ...

We finally got our first chicken eggs today! Two! Not really sure which chicken(s) laid them, because we didn't see it happening, but ...

We had one of our more productive weekends this weekend. Saturday, as usual, we both had school until 4PM then we usually both spend the eve...

...with over two weeks to spare before the extension filing deadline! =) Actually, I'm a little embarrassed I didn't finish them ear...

We found this recipe for Caramel Spice Pear Butter over a decade ago, and Jeff just loves it! We found a good deal on pears at Grocery Out...

We finished canning the last of the peaches this morning. Final tally: 16 almost-quarts (ex-Classico pasta jars), 4 pints of jam and 4 pie f...

We bought 34 pounds of peaches earlier in the week and today the fruit was finally ripe enough to can. We put up four pie fillings, one batc...

We have been canning and baking up a storm this weekend. We found a good deal on local apricots so we ended up buying 2 full boxes (about 30...

Jeff brought back a big tub of peaches with him from Redwood City. They are off the tree in the backyard at Upton. Even though I didn't ...

Dinner was wonderful and we really enjoyed our visit with friends. We went off to Scott and Pattie's house in Mountain View. And we were...