Our front parkway and small garden inside the fence really got away from me this year, and let’s face it, both needed some professional help. Here was the overgrown mess as of yesterday: I hired a landscape gardening company to not only clean it up but set it on a…

Hope you all like goats… a lot! Sarah and I went to goat yoga at Garfield Park Conservatory today. They’ve been doing goat yoga on some Saturdays all summer, with Natalie, the no-goat Saturday yoga instructor, also teaching this class. She said that at the beginning of the summer when…

Miles lookalikes are clearly spread throughout the world. I did a real doubletake at his doppelganger on an outside wall advertisement this morning. For the record, Miles doesn’t see the resemblance and thinks instead that his parents can’t tell him apart from every other bearded young man out there. Let…

Lots of summer fun happening here! I went out for a cycle and run in humboldt Park after work yesterday and it was really beautiful. Sorry chance the snapper is missing it! A few weeks ago John and I went to one evening of the pitchfork music festival in union…

July has been quite eventful, and I still have more photos to post! First, happy birthday to our end of July bday club members, Debbie (July 24) and Liam and kathleen (July 26). We went out to dinner to celebrate with Liam and Kat, also celebrating kat’s excellent LSAT results,…

This is our backyard, rather than Miller Beach, but a nice pic of Dylan, Miles, John and Liam. OK, on to Miller! Also in July, we spent a weekend with Mike and Andrea in Miller Beach. The weather was perfect and we had a great time there swimming in the…

Hello! Sorry for the long break between KC part 1 and 2. Our last couple of days we continued to have nice visits, eat good food, and take in the KC cultural scene. Miles joined us on Friday night and we went for breakfast at Gratitude Cafe and then visited…

As I think all readers know, we went to Kansas City over the 4th of July weekend. The holiday was on a Thursday this year, so we took Wednesday and Friday off to make it a nice long weekend. Hint to Democratic candidates for 2020 – this voter would support…

More time and space shifts! This post will cover last weekend, the day after I bought a jean jacket in the previous post. I wanted to give plenty of space to my fun weekend in Naperville with Maddie, Debbie and Jeff! Maddie and I went to the Morton Arboretum, where…

Buckle up, readers, I am about to blow the time / space continuum wide open. This post starts the week of Miles’s graduation but instead of going to France and Italy with John, it will follow the Chicago storyline. The evening before John headed off to Cannes, we went out…