The history of St. Valentine’s Day is rather screwy as with most international holidays.  Turn your ear one way you will hear that it originated from a festival in Ancient Rome celebrating fertility.  Turn you ear the other way and you will find those that believe the connection of love and romance to the February 14th date didn’t happen [...]

  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  Today we went and and chopped down our Christmas tree.   Ok, so we went to the big red and white tented tree city that pops up every year down the road.  Our tree is a BIG FAT 7 footer that is now filling the space we gave [...]