Downs by the Bay

Hi! Welcome to Downs by the Bay! Under this particular post, you will find all the posts in reverse chronological order since this blog star...

Hi! Gosh, there's so much going on that something new happens right after I write to you! This next move was not planned. It sprung up, ...

Happy Wednesday! It's pretty glorious out there! Frosty and cold, but the sun sparkles on it all. And the lake is undulating all the pac...

Hey there! Today I drove (almost) to Wisconsin and back today, so this will be short. Brady P got to spend a few days with the Rogers family...

Hi! It's snowing! I think Winter heard me talking smack because we just got a snowstorm and another one is on the way. Haha!  I had to g...

Okay. I'm going to be straight with you. It really hasn't been Winter here. It's been more like Inter. No "W" earned. ...

Hello!!! I have so many exciting things to tell you, but I can't say them all at once, so here is the latest. This blog just reached 100...

Do you remember what it was like getting up early for school when you were a kid? It was tortuously early and often still dark. Kind of a cr...

Hey there! Want to come on a journey with us? It's only three blocks long, but sometimes it takes 20 minutes to complete.  Twenty minute...

Happy Wednesday! Were you one of those kids (or adults) who always had to find out why you weren't supposed to do the things your paren...

Hi! We figured it out. Brady had influenza A. For two weeks!  It was pretty rough for him. I even had to get him on antibiotics because he w...

Hi! Just a note to say that my sole purpose lately is to make sure B gets better during his current sickness. Waiting room duo We wore our r...

Aloha! I hope you survived the latest storm. I don't think any state in the continental 48 was exempt from that.  Da harbor was pretty m...