Lazy Night

Okay, I had technical difficulties and I’m feeling a little fed up with cyberspace, so I’m slacking off.  But if you’re desperate for a post, I just put something silly up on the CBS 6 Blog.

More Appliciousness

Would you believe that we’re still working off the last of the apples from our apple-picking outing?  I know! One of my very favorite salads is a mesclun-apple-cheddar cheese-walnut salad.  Yum.  I throw on a very basic little vinaigrette of apple cider vinegar, olive oil, water, salt & pepper, and a tiny smidgen of honey.  … [Read more…]

More Shopping!?!

I know what you’re thinking!  Katie’s not a shopper!  And she’s cheap!  She’s always saying that!  And, yes, it’s true.  But by chance I’ve stumbled on two more shopping destinations, so I’m doing one more post.  And then, I’m done.  No really:  I’m serious.  So if you have a store to tell me about, I … [Read more…]

Upper Union Street

Wow!  I took a walking tour of the neighborhood around Upper Union Street, Schenectady, this afternoon.  There are a ton of new businesses that have opened there recently, so I thought that I’d check them out and report. Okay, I don’t know if you’ve already heard, but my entire moms’ group has been talking about … [Read more…]

Miscellaneous Tuesday

In a startling coincidence, just about every little girl in J’s class was sporting a lovely and complicated updo today.  Including J, of course.  In fact, she looked so cute that I took a picture to share before sending them off to school.  Alas, when I took a second look at the camera I realized … [Read more…]

Scary Stuff

In J’s class there’s a case of head lice, and she came home itching.  I went and got some kill-the-bugs shampoo. We kept reassuring her that this was “just in case”, or, as W likes to call it, a “prophylactic measure”.  Every time he said it I’d start to giggle because it sounds dirty.  Am … [Read more…]

Apples

We finally made it to the apple orchards, and just in the nick of time, it seems.  If you’ve gone already, you know that this has been a really bad year for apples, so pickings are slim.  If you were haven’t gotten around to it yet, I’d go as soon as you possibly can, and … [Read more…]

Fairy Gardens

I’m catching up on the birthday party craftiness with the cute little gardens that we made for our fairies. Here are some supplies: I bought a peat-moss-looking table runner as well as some vase fillers and pretty little scrapbooking roses at Michael’s.  I cut the table runner up into small-ish pieces and glued them onto … [Read more…]

Community Supported Bakers

Britin & Nick from All Good Bakers sent me an email asking if I’d be willing to spread the word about their new Community Supported Bakery.   They also offered me free samples!  Yes, please! So, of course I wanted to like them–what a good idea.  You already know that I belong to a CSA, and … [Read more…]