http://theundomesticwife.com ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:35:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On our recent trip to Indiana, we stopped at the Bonneyville Mill (Bristol, IN) to see the Dahlia Gardens there. They had several varieties, all in full bloom, and absolutely beautiful! Here are just some of the dahlias they had: http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=813 Earlier this year, during my travels to the U.P., I discovered Dobber's Pasties - a tiny restaurant that serves delicious chicken pasties! The pasty is the perfect wintertime food, and although winter is still a couple months away, I decided to try and replicate their recipe. I started with the Cornish ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=795 Eric & I are planning a trip to northern Indiana, to visit "Amish country." We'll likely just drive down and explore, but I spent a little bit of time trying to figure out if there's any must-see places to check out or restaurants to try. We plan to travel through the ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=793 Over the past year or so, we've had a few lenses & camera accessories die. One of Eric's lenses was badly scratched, another was dropped (causing the shutter blades to fall out of place, rendering the lens useless). My flash, which is probably four years old, died earlier this summer. The ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=790 After looking at our crumbling driveway for four years, we're just about ready to have it replaced. We've been holding off doing vinyl siding on the garage, for fear that it would get damaged when we remove the driveway, but new siding and a new driveway would go a long ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=787 We have had a large maple tree about 10' behind our garage. Over the years it has obviously had some decay/damage, and if it were ever to come down it would damage either our house, garage, or the neighborhood power lines (that run through the back yard). I suppose that should ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=785 [gallery link="file" columns="2"] http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=772 A couple of photos from my sister's bridal shower on April 18, 2010: http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=767 This week I found out that I'm being shipped up to the Upper Peninsula for the next nine weeks. I'll generally be driving up on Mondays, and returning on Fridays - I'm estimating that I'll drive nearly 20,000 miles for work in the next 9 weeks! I'll be spending time in ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=765 I don't often cook vegetarian meals, but tonight was an exception to that. Natalie came over for dinner and she doesn't eat meat... So we attempted a new recipe for black-bean burgers. It turned out absolutely delicious, although I wasn't able to convince Eric to try it! Here's the recipe, taken ... http://theundomesticwife.com/?p=761