Tim and Jen Live Here

My mom and I recently went to the Leelanau Peninsula for a belated celebration of her birthday. The peninsula is a quiet area full of small towns, nature (the area lays claim to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as well as many rivers and lakes), and sixteen wineries. Though we were subject to [...]

Yesterday we made the very difficult decision to have Cody put to sleep. He was nearly 13 years old and had cancer in his urethra. He was diagnosed in October 2007, and had been doing pretty well since, but the tumor made it increasingly difficult for him to urinate. He had recently [...]

A lot of people in the lower part of Michigan like to go “up north” for the weekend as often as possible in the summer. This means that heading northbound on any of southern Michigan’s freeways is probably a bad idea between, say, 3pm and 6pm on a summer Friday, unless you don’t mind [...]

It’s taken me a while to find all these photos, since my system for storing digital photos is, shall we say, erratic. Click the photos for larger versions, especially the vampire one.

Taunt the Dog

It’s worth teaming up to make this more effective. Neither cat has much interest in the great outdoors, but Cody [...]

I am fortunate to live in a city that has a farmers’ market three times a week during the harvest season - Saturday and Wednesday mornings, and a smaller market Thursday evenings. This time of year the market is crowded with both produce and people. When I shop there, I put kids in [...]