The Germans are here!

After a grueling journey involving a 7-hour delay in Hamburg, my sister and her girls are here to spend a month! (well, at our parents' – close enough)   Read and post comments

Journey 3D

Journey 3D We took Al's mom to see Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. This was the first movie she'd seen since The Poseidon Adventure (the 70's version!) It had some cheesy 3D effects, and I hurt myself when a piranha-type thing jumped out of the screen at me, but it was…

Time to make the limoncello

It’s that time of year again! Well, actually, it’s been “that time” for over a month now, but I was late in finding organic lemons. For pure summertime alcoholic enjoyment, you’ll need: 6-7 lemons, preferably organic, as it’s only the peels you’ll be using 1 liter of good vodka 4 cups of water (about 1…

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

Today was the qualifying races at Schenley Park, so we decided to go today rather than to the main races tomorrow, because last year when we went on Sunday, a lot of the car show cars were already gone. Today is the main day for the car show, which I really enjoy. Gorgeous weather today,…

Veggies – 7/17/08

July 17 2008 Here are my veggies of the week – I got so many good ideas from people last week, of what yummy things I could do with them, that I decided to post more often! This week: more… lettuce (though a different type), fennel, new potatoes, zucchini, cukes, green onions. New this week:…

Take that, Big Oil

60 mpg This was my mpg reading when I got home today – I averaged 60.1 mpg over the 62.5 round trip of my commute. A personal record, I think! (I drove carefully, caught most of the lights, didn't need to pull out fast into traffic, was able to drive with the windows up and…

Day at BeaveRun

Today we went to BeaveRun racecourse to watch the finals of weekend #1 of Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix racing. They generally run some of the more recent and more powerful cars at BeaveRun, which is a road-style course, but not so winding as the course at Schenley Park where they'll run the real oldies next…

Fractured table

  Nikki coffee table Nikki liked so well what Al did with our coffee table last Fall, that she decided to try the same with the coffee table she found on CraigsList for her new apartment… only she's using some of her very own handmade tiles which were part of her capstone project when she got…