by MCMAdmin | Jan 19, 2024 | Baking, Cooking, Cooking Untensils, Food and Recipes, Places, Sally Buffington |
7:45 A.M. Ready for the day, I walk into the kitchen and there where I left them drying last night, are three graduated though un-matched pans. Oh, it’s Father Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. The old faithfuls! Ready for yet more service—no rest for the weary around...
by MCMAdmin | Oct 20, 2023 | Cape Cod, Cape Cod Books, Places, Sally Buffington, Seeing/Photographs, Thinking, Travel |
Traveling this past summer, as always I took books with me, and as always, bought more along the way. Though I also brought a Nook e-reader, I got held up in the TSA line because I didn’t remove it from my carry-on for scanning; the agent could hardly believe this...
by Sally | Sep 20, 2023 | Color and Fashion, Food and Recipes, Places, Sally Buffington |
Thinking of my recent trip to Cape Cod, I notice that some of the most interesting things which happened, I didn’t plan on. For instance a three -course “menu” of happenings at restaurants, starting with yet another round of oysters on the half shell ordered by my...
by Sally | Aug 20, 2023 | Nature, Places |
Recently dear friends invited Andy and me to a pool party, with the special purpose of our grandson meeting their two grandchildren; all three eleven or twelve years old. Though I’d worried how the arranged introduction would work, the kids clicked right away and we...
by Sally | Feb 4, 2022 | Places, Seeing/Photographs |
Last fall, I revisited Nauset Haven, the cottage colony in Eastham which my family owned and operated during my teen years (1957-64). The place where I knew and learned Cape Cod, before I ever knew about Craigville or met my future husband or the Buffingtons. That...
by Sally | Dec 14, 2021 | Places, Thinking |
As a child, I used to read this verse on the cover of the family photo album. Now I would add a line: “old places”—and one old place in particular, our Craigville cottage of which I wrote in A Place Like This. Yet we never celebrated Christmas there. All...
