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The HH and I drove to Rhode Island a couple of weeks ago and one of the stops along our way was the Rough Point Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. As I mentioned in my first post about the Kitchen Garden at Rough Point the mansion was formerly the summer “cottage” of high society peeps Read More >>
The HH and I drove to Rhode Island yesterday and one of the stops along our way was the Rough Point Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. Formerly the summer “cottage” of high society peeps like Fredrick W. Vanderbilt, William and Nancy Leeds, James Buchanan Duke and lastly Doris Duke, the property sits nicely upon the Read More >>
Finally, we are getting some rain. Lot’s and lot’s of rain to be exact. And you know what? I think it’s pretty rad. Especially after 80+ degree weather for the last 3 months. This is Seattle people… we need rain to survive. To breath. To feel whole. To give us an excuse to drink copious Read More >>
I’m sure you may have noticed the lack of posts the past few days and that’s because I travelled to our east coast home and as usual, it takes me a day or two to get my bearings. My flight was delayed 2 hours {one of those hours was sitting on the airstrip waiting to Read More >>
It’s been a busy week in the garden. The fence guys will be here tomorrow to set posts and a few days after that our back yard garden should be up and running. In the meantime, The Girl and I have been finishing up a few small projects. We dug up the front tulip bed Read More >>
