This is day 6 of the first days home after getting a new puppy! Meet Maple, a 7 week old, fox red, female Labrador Retriever. (pictured below) Maple will turn 8 weeks old tomorrow. She was born Friday, June 20th, 2025. Yes, she's super young. Yes, it's an adjustment. Yes, she needs to pee often… Continue reading Puppy First Days Home: Meet Maple!
We're getting a puppy! What kind? A fox-red-lab-female, from a breeder in Northern Wisconsin, one week from this Saturday. I thought it might be interesting to capture this adventure here because, as my husband is telling me, the weeks between 8-20 are especially important for early socializing. Plus, it's bound to be quite entertaining. I… Continue reading Puppy Go Bag: Preparing for a puppy after losing our family dog
Who leaves out vitamins in a Ziplock bag while camping? Me. Oops. We went camping at Governor Dodge State Park in Wisconsin over Father's Day weekend. It was my first time there. My sister, who's family camps a lot recommended it. We had tent camped with them a couple years ago, but this time I was able to… Continue reading Camping Adventures at Wisconsin’s Governor Dodge State Park
Patience is a virtue I wouldn't say is a strength of mine. However, planning ahead is something I'm good at. If I know I put my best effort forward in advance, figuring out the details and timing projects until completion...it's worth the wait.When my spring garden started popping up this season I was filled with… Continue reading Secret Spring Garden Blooms
One of the first jobs I ever had was working for my neighbor Marty as a gardener. He lived in the corner house across the street from us. The "underground house" we called it, because it was partially underground and you could literally touch the roof if you wanted to. It was totally unique, and… Continue reading Flower Power
Southern Bell We adopted Savannah on Saturday, January 19th, 2013. (This just so happens to also be Dolly Parton's birthday! I've always loved knowing that.) She came up from the southern state of Georgia to Buffalo, Minnesota where an animal humane society welcomed her. (My husband had actually been there before because in college he… Continue reading My best girl, Savy.
I'm curious what turning this virtual micro-museum into a physical space would be like? What would it take?I know where I'd locate it.This is a recent curiosity I'm following. So far it's consisted of looking up the old 4 unit apartment building my Great Grandma Rose lived in for 50 years. It's located on 2416… Continue reading Creating a micro museum in Madison, Wisconsin & a letter from my Great Great Aunt Sarah Ann I’d include
I didn't really know what Broadway was until I was a freshman in high school between 1996-1997. That's when I saw Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Chicago, Illinois with Donny Osmond staring as Joesph. We had gone as a part of a school trip I think. I remember others saying what a big… Continue reading My bullies and boobie stories & #SearchForDolly Broadway Audition!
DAY 12 Monday, April 13th, 1998 (Room with Lacy 133) 6:50am MUNICH, GERMANY: HOTEL IMPERIAL I can’t believe that tomorrow we go home! I’m ready, but wish coming back wouldn’t be so hard to do. I know with a blink of an eye I will be able to travel back in my mind. I forgot… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 12: Munich, Germany 1998
DAY 10 Saturday, April 11, 19988 (7:10pm) Room 210 with Anne SALZBURG, AUSTRIA: GASTHOF GRUENER WALD We’re getting ready to go out for the night. We have a concert and a dance after. I’ll write about that when we get home. I just did Patty’s hair! She likes it! Today we went to Salzburg and… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 10 & 11: Salzburg, Austria 1998
