Deirdre's Blog

It was delicious!
The sun has been out, no snow in sight.  A little rain in the preview on Wednesday but no snow.  w00t!  And we are back at it for the week!  Enjoy Monday.  

This has been a week for the books. We have been out every single night this week and we are ready for the weekend! We ended the run with friends Polly and Patrick last night.  They moved here from Milwaukee and are loving the GR way of life.

Polly is amazing.  While raising possible the cutest five year old on the planet, she is also a pastry chef.  If she does lessons, I am SO there.  The first thing she made was this tiered strawberry cake with cardamon.  She gave us the full description - which of course I have completely forgotten.   It was so good that I was scrapping the airy-light cream off the cake so I could taste each individual component of the masterpiece.  It was fantastic.  

Tomorrow, I have a full day of photography held by two local photographers.  I have been looking forward to this for months.  Enjoy the weekend!

Real life is incredibly busy right now! After an enthralling Olympics, we had a fabulous play date with Kenya, have been to see the butterflies at Meijer Gardens, Pampered Chef party that is providing many of the utensils needed East of the Equator, more training for Paul, Deirdre and @thedogsamon, dessert with friends and an entire Saturday with fellow photography enthusiasts!  

On the plus side, it's finally March. I don't know about you but this has been a less than desirable winter.  No big storms to enjoy, too many gray and lugubrious days and dirty snow that isn't going away.  We still have the potential for snow - we have had snow in Michigan as late as May - but most of the winter is the rear view mirror.  

Enjoy the rest of the week and we will catch up again on Sunday!  

I love Wednesday nights.  The weekend is in sight and we are on the down slide.  I have a recovering husband and a very tired dog.  Samson spent his day with his 4 legged friends @Whiskers, had a lot of fun and a nice coif.   Grooming always help with the shedding.  

We have been watching the Olympics in our house.  One of the most exciting nights of hockey that I have ever seen was Monday night between Canada and US.  The game was incredible, so exciting in fact there were times when I had to remember to breathe.   Equally as exciting was following the Twitter stream.  You don't need a Twitter account to follow what I am writing here.  Just go to Twitter and in the Search box, type #hockey.  The character before the word hockey is called a hashtag and will pull into a stream all the references to the word.  You will see references in English, French, Russian and languages I don't even recognize.  It is also a testimony to the universal appeal of hockey.  Yeah, these are pros playing right now but even if there weren't pro players, people would still be crazy about the games, the players and the pairings.  So visit Twitter and search  #Olympics  #hockey #USA.  In that order.  

Enjoy the rest of the week.