December 27, 2021
It was a fun thing to revisit, stepping through our vacation and all the various places we went. We used a mixture of receipts, notes, blog posts, and regular old memory to try to revisit the whisky we’ve tried, the ones we’ve forgotten, and the ones that still stand out to this day.
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December 26, 2021
Also – you can’t hear it, but I assure you there are sea shanties playing in the background.
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December 22, 2021
My sister didn’t remember it at first, but she recognized this photo. She kept saying “Who is that?” but couldn’t quite place where she recognized him from.
As I played the video, she started to remember bits and pieces. And it was hilarious, watching her remember all the various characters from this film.
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December 21, 2021
Liz spent a lot of time today, cleaning up hardware pieces. Using a newer approach, I think, of soaking things in vinegar and then using an SOS pad.
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December 19, 2021
Checking out how the family photos (and the silly one in particular) turned out.
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December 18, 2021
A view of the chaos, from above.
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December 13, 2021
Liz has been at work, stripping paint off the vintage kitchen door we got, earlier this year. I stopped down in the basement to check out some of her progress.
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December 9, 2021
Liz, sharing some of the background on the bottles and the bottlers. I say this in all seriousness: I think she’s very close to being able to host her own (paid) tasting sessions.
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December 4, 2021
Liz and I met up with at Katie and Tim’s lake house, where Julie and Bob were spending the weekend. We had a big afternoon of local breweries to visit, as part of Bob’s birthday celebration.
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November 28, 2021
We were up early this morning, trying to head out before traffic gets bad. Snapped this photo of Kirt and Liz, taking a moment to lookout on the lake… one last time, before heading home.
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November 27, 2021
Day trip today, over to Montague Tree Farms in search of an Xmas tree.
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November 26, 2021
One place where I took a ton of photos: Cosmic Candy Company (aka Pentwater Popcorn).
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November 25, 2021
A busy kitchen. And me, just standing off to the side, watching all the action take place. L to R it’s Liz, waiting on some ingredients, Kirt tending to the turkey and potatoes, Izzy prepping biscuits and rolling croissants, Anne checking the cupboards.
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November 22, 2021
We’re spending Thanksgiving with the Holder family, up at their lakehouse in Whitehall. Liz and I ended up arriving a few days before everyone else, deciding to bring our laptops (and monitors) so that we could still work from home. Albeit from a new/different home.
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November 17, 2021
Having finished up her hall window work, Liz has started tackling the restoration work on the vintage door we picked up, earlier this year.
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