Field at Russell Road Sometimes Grand Rapids redeems itself slightly. I thought this to myself as we pedaled along the White Pine Trail this morning. I’ve always heard about the trail, but we hadn’t yet checked it out. So we loaded up the bikes and drove on up to Belmont. […]
The little interloper
View from the beach: Muskegon It started out innocently enough. Jasmine was riding her bike along the sidewalk in front of our house. She’s eight and lives next door with her parents and sister, at her grandmother’s house. She and her four-year-old sister, Madivelle, are cute, sweet kids. As she […]
Spacing out
A sad little leaf floating in our Red Lion collector’s glass As I was letting the dogs out this afternoon, I was surprised by the scene on our deck. Newspapers were scattered about — both on the table and the deck itself. Then I noticed two glasses, each half full […]
At the carwash
A muskmelon that I harvested from the garden yesterday I’m a loose cannon sometimes. Like when I drive up to a carwash that I’ve used before and everything’s completely different. We motored up to the keypad and input the number on our receipt. No problem. Worked just the same as […]
Happy birthday, Pete!
One year along and he’s so much happier So I headed to D&W tonight to pick up some fixins for tomorrow’s book club fete when I ran into Tonya from work. She introduced me to her gorgeous 120-pound German Shepherd, Darby, who’s four years old today. Then I came home, […]
Polenta with roasted peppers and fontina cheese
Because dinner last night was the most interesting thing that happened to me today
Facing the waves
We capped off our weekend with a long-awaited trip to “dog beach.” The long wait was probably more from my perspective, since I don’t think the dogs have a concept of that type of thing. Or maybe they do. Juliette sure seemed to think it was about time we’d made […]