Saturday, March 12, 2016

Homebrewin'

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We're learning how to make beer here in the Gavin house today. Lucky for us, we have a friend and neighbor who is willing to babysit us ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

When are you due?

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It's a hard question to answer.  We're expecting an addition into our family.  Soonish.  But not nowish.  If you believe my cycle, y...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Scenes from the Office, Part 2

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An exchange I had with a coworker this morning: Me: “Coworker X, this report you prepared is fantastic! I’ve never seen it before. Who...
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Wake up!

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These two brothers can't get enough  of each other...in the morning, when it's time to get ready to leave for school and the "n...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Fall fun!

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Our friend (and realtor), Mary, hosts an annual gathering which is always a ton of fun. She hauls out an antique apple cider press and has a...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Ella lost her second tooth tonight

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And by "lost," I mean she lost it somewhere deep in the cracks of the seats of the minivan on the way home from the playground, pr...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

Scenes from the office

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Scene:   Environmental organization’s kitchen, late afternoon. The office manager, a guy with a penchant for pink polos and flip flops is t...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Making cheese

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The honey harvest is over, so it's time to turn my attention to a new skill: cheese making! I have dabbled in this over the last f...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

National Honey Bee Day!

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Tomorrow is national honey bee day, and I haven’t even started to plan. Is this a big thing? Do they know about this holiday and have been ...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

My commute

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Recently, I realized that in order to get to and from my office, I was spending nearly an hour and fifteen minutes in my car: to commute a r...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Don't Stop Bee-Lieving

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I don't know where that post title came from. Here is a picture of me and one of my girls, during a recent visit to the apiary. She is q...
Friday, May 23, 2014

How Not to Hive Your Bees

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My honeybees arrived this weekend. You may remember my post from late winter about the beekeeping class I took because it is one of, like, ...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

It’s Winter, and I live in Wisconsin

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So I am trying to keep a stiff upper lip about all the snow and ice and gray skies and cold, cold wind and frozen doors and frozen toes and ...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Sarongs are not Weapons

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Chris has been gone this week, learning how to make skis at the North House , a folk school on the shores of Lake Superior, in Grand Marais,...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Beekeeping 101

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I took a class today from Mad Urban Bees to learn how to keep bees. Although we live in a condo right now, I have a friend who has an organi...