An Announcement.
Heather’s Text to Paige Marcella Rieck Hill:Hey Paige, guess what I am. It’s a sort of state of being or a condition if you will. an unplanned and u...
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Our Family Photo Album
As you can see, I really enjoyed Middleton Place Plantation.
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I promised some pictures of Charleston and Savannah, so here are a few of the few that we took.
Ice cream in Savannah because it was Blue Bell. Even though it was cold, we were so excited about seeing Blue Bell ice cream (which you can’t find up nort...
Back to the Big Apple
Well, I came back to a 65-degree-New York (I could literally watch the snow melt) and mouse poop. Yes, almost every drawer in my kitchen was decorated with unbe...
Bed & Breakfast
BED: BREAKFAST: AND THE PARLOR: of Park Avenue Manor, my and Chris’ uncle’s spectacular Bed & Breakfast Inn in Savannah, Georgia. If you are eve...
A Look at Historic Charleston
Yesterday, I toured 18th and 19th century mansions in downtown Charleston. Then today, I toured Middleton Place, an 18th century rice plantation. The gardens ar...
>Boarding Officer School
> I’m glad Chris enjoys BO school because it takes up a lot of his time. He’s at class from 6AM to 5PM everyday then he comes home to do ho...
>Low Country Oyster Fest 2011
> Yesterday, we joined the masses at the World’s Biggest Oyster Roast on 350-year-old Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston. The oyst...
The beach by the lighthouse
I’m standing in the sand between Charleston Harbor and miles of yellow grass growing in shallow water that sparkles in the afternoon sun. The sea is calm ...
>Chris, I think we took the long way from Indiana to Charleston
>I woke Tues morning with no inclination that I would wake the next morning halfway through a road trip to Charleston, South Carolina. Only two mornings prev...
>Letter to Liz Gilson
>“…We are doing good- drenched in Christmas spirit. Yes, we still LOVE our church oh my oh my we love it so much. These people are so genuinely l...
>The expiration date on my milk carton
>Back when Chris went to sea (thank the Lord that is over), I would get excited about his homecoming when my milk’s expiration date was after his retur...
>Time Warp
>I don’t know if I have ever been quite so aware of time as I was yesterday, when we were leaving Boston. On 93 South, we came to the intersection: S t...
>Actionpacked 4 days
>Thursday: Bell ringing at New York Stock Exchange. We met Navajo Wind Talkers and I got to walk around the floor while Chris joined the men on the bell plat...
Odd Job
English Breakfast Tea in hand, I walk from the parlor of our 1890s house staff building, where my sewing colleagues sing English folk ballads in harmony, to the...
I work in a historic village museum
Blacksmithing, tinsmithing, carpentry, basket making, rope making, weaving, quilting, butter churning, cider pressing, bread baking in a historic brick oven, ap...
>My New Job
>Last night, I looked up from carving the leftovers of the chicken I had roasted for dinner while listening to my JJ Heller station on Pandora.com after comi...
>We are being restationed to NYC
> We found out this week that Chris’ next job is at sector New York. Fort Wadsworth is on Staten Island (the orange burough) A toll bridge away from Br...
Lovely Friends
Oh wow. What gifts friends are. And how loving my lovely gifts happen to be. Rachel, Dana, and Laura all flew up here at the same time! I picked them up in Bost...
>Email to
>Chris, I’m suddenly crazy about sweet Italian sausage. So for dinner tonight, I had penne pasta with sausage and green peppers with sea salt and a tou...
>Betty Botter Baked Bread & Snacked on Sesame Seeds by the Sea Shore
>No, I don’t know Betty Botter; I just wanted to combine two tongue twisters. Today, a woman-friend taught me the art of mixing, kneading, braiding, ba...
Morning Drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway
My Jetta and I drove from Florida to Maine two wks ago. I would call it a life-experience. I entered the Appalachian Mntns the 2nd morning. I appropriately turn...
Savannah just became one of my favorite cities.
> The history of the colony is layered upon layer and the beauty of the historic district is unrivaled! The town has 23 grassy squares. Most feature a monume...
The oldest city in the U.S., a college, a fort, and another fort
> We drove down a barrier island to a place that really didn’t feel like America. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest port in the U.S. ...
Temporarily Floridian
> Florida is warm and humid. Not that I expected it to be any different. Glad it’s not hurricane season. Jaguars football game last week. Woohoo. Cast...
Zombies Perform Thriller in Market Square
>Every Halloween, a parade of wowingly costumed people marches through old downtown Portsmouth. Seriously, these costumes are ridiculous and metic...
So my neighbor is a lobsterman.
>So last night, Iwas anticipating cooking chicken when the door bell rang. It was our lobsterman neighbor, Jeff, holding two live lobsters that he had caught...