Thoughts from the Ridge

I have no idea what they call this thing in Millennium Park, but to me it is a chrome jelly bean... And then a variation of 'Where's...

The Sears Tower is still the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and is only shorter than two other buildings. And so Didi and I too...

Some of you know that we are here in Chicago this week due to a conference with Jody's work. So we decided to drive here and after about...

Saturday, we decided to go to Superior and Broomfield to go shopping. So we needed a good lunch to make it through all the stores....so we...

So I took my kids (aka Kevin and DiDi) to the park also..... I did ride this slide....it was good...but very wet after the rain on Friday n...

Comes the rainbow....so after the big rain Friday night and our dinner out...we stopped at Rainbow Bridge...this is the bridge that goes ove...

We went out on Friday night to a little Mexican Restaurant here in town. This was DiDi's first experience with Mexican Food. She liked...

are the same everywhere. Video games are fun :) This is Diana (Didi) our exchange student from Slovakia playing Wii for the first time. This...

Empty boxes.... This is the dining room, where all boxes have been living as we empty them. You can tell there is not anything in the china...

We are moved in....well mostly. We are unpacking and getting settled. The other night after moving stuff we looked out the kitchen doors to ...

Hello all, Well the stress was worth it. We were able to take possession of the house on Wed, although we don't close until Friday (I th...

Our niece Desirae and her husband, Tim decided to have a few friends and family over for a BBQ on Saturday night. They provided the meat an...

When we started doing the decorating, the one thing I really wanted was some glass subway tiles for the backsplash. I've seen them in a ...

Orangecello is a grain spirit (flavored vodka) that has an extremely strong orange flavor. We picked some up the other day because we liked ...

About a month ago we were watching "Road Tasted" with Alton Brown on Food TV. He found a place that was selling Cool-ickles. They ...

Sorry, we have not been posting much this week (Sorry Aunt Doloris) . But we are kinda in a whole new level of stress this week with the hou...

I ran across this web app called Wordle today. Basically you can give it some text or a website and it creates a word based image. Where th...

Jody was talking to Deogi (the dog) last night on how she was going to be moving to the house with the ditch. Because all Deogi cares about ...

Yes, I admit it I was excited about the counter tops (but not quite as excited as Jody claimed I was)... they were 4 days (including the wee...