Last night was our West Coast Trail wrap-up. Wrap-up meaning pot luck dinner, discussion and slide show. What a great group of cooks we have! Everyone brought the dish they signed up for and more.…

I have been working on my interim pottery project…pinch pots. A simple concept really, start with a ball of clay and make small pinches until you form a shape, just like in elementary school art…

Today is the last in summer’s trilogy of holidays. Labor Day means that fall’s cooler temperatures cannot be far off. While a good part of this holiday weekend was spent doing yard work, yesterday John…

It is birthday time again in our part of the world! Today is John’s birthday, he finally caught up with me. We went back to the Melting Pot to celebrate, this time with John’s son,…