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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

Posted in Exploring, tagged , , , on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This is a quote from the poet G.K. Chesterton, which I’ve always loved because it is so improbable. It does not have much to do with this post – the poetry part, anyway – but this is about a cheese that’s worthy of poetry, and of a stop if you’re touring Sonoma County. St. George [...]

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Ripple Creek Weekend

Posted in Exploring, tagged , on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We took a weekend off – way off.     After my dad died, my stepmother stopped celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas with us – to do things without my dad that she had done with him was just too painful. A few years after that we started looking for a new tradition, something we could [...]

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Tenaya Lodge

Posted in Exploring, tagged , on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s 7:31 on Sunday morning and it feels so weird not to be at the schoolhouse! Instead, I’m at a mountain wonderland called Tenaya Lodge just outside of Yosemite with my sister Melanie, who cleverly managed to get invited for a free weekend. We’ve explored the new spa, Ascent, which is gorgeous, learned about the [...]

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To cupola, or not to cupola?

Posted in Designing, Exploring, tagged , , on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Now that we own a schoolhouse, we make detours to see others, and so far all the ones we’ve seen have cupolas. We’ve been thinking that when we re-do the roof on this one, we’ll add a cupola – we even found directions on how to make one online, and bought the louvered door that [...]

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