We spent today at Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Sleepy Hollow, NY. The weather was beautiful and it was a pleasure to be out in the beau...

I may have been going a couple MPH over the speed limit. I checked my GPS later and what did it say?

We will be picking Cooper up on Sept 6. Linda is being very nice and she will drive 2 hours south, so we only have to drive 3 hours to Massa...

Linda took Cooper to the vet today. Good news - he now weighs 54 pounds and is between 2-5 years of age. The vet said Cooper was definitely ...

When my Mom heard we were getting another dog she said, "I guess that's your anniversary gift". I laughed because after we dec...

We are hoping to pick up Cooper on Sept 6. We still need to work out the details with his foster Mom, Linda. In just a few weeks we will aga...

I guess you never know what fate has in store. We just decided to adopt again and last night I saw Cooper’s picture on the SGRR website. O...

When Danny died, I said no more dogs. The heartbreak was just too great. I could not imagine loving another dog and losing them too. But the...

I'm not sure I ever appreciated working in retail while I was growing up. Oh, I appreciated the opportunity to work and being the boss...

While we were in Charleston we visited a new museum, the Fire Museum andEducational Center . They have restored fire trucks from the America...

Kiawah is a private island about 20 miles from Charleston, SC. Kiawah is one of our favorite vacation spots. These pictures illustrate the b...

You know it is HOT when Valerie says, "It's too hot, I don't want to visit the shops on King St". To be fair, there was a ...

We always see the ads for Red Robin restaurants on tv, but there are none located near us. So, when we found out that we would be passing b...

We finally finished the bedroom painting! The color doesn't really show well in these pictures, but it's a medium green (kinda like...

After 170K miles, the Civic is dead. The insurance company said that the car is a total loss. The Civic has been towed away and the registra...

I've heard it said that any accident you can walk away from is a good accident. This is what the Civic looks like after being hit by a F...

We've had a Hydrangea of some sort at every house we've owned. At our house in Apex, North Carolina, we had some Oak Leaf Hydrangea...

About a week ago, one of Valerie's hummingbird feeders disappeared off the deck. "I can't believe somebody stole my Hummingbird...

It had finally cooled down the other night, so we opened the windows for the night. I was having a hard time sleeping when I heard an owl o...

I was looking back through the pictures we've taken over the last year and a half. Some made it to the blog and some didn't. This ...