This blog is my diary of my life since retiring from a professional highly stressful management career to a life of enjoying myself with my husband on a farmette in a semi-rural town in Central Maryland.
I spent 30 years in Federal employment, starting as an engineer doing ocean research.
I love my new life, as a volunteer, a gardener, a foodie and a locavore.
My blog is my journal of the things I love doing.

Great site for slow/local foodstuffs! I found you linked from HowChow and wanted to let you know about our little coffee roasting company, Southern Skies Coffee Roasters.
Happy holidays!
Forgive me, for I know not who you are. I have spent most of the night taxing my memory for one named Annie Rie Dora but it escapes my old brain cells.
I received your blog from one of my beloved wine lovers of days past – i.e., Les Amis du Vin, Wine Lovers International and the Tasters Guild – and know that indeed I must know you but do not recognize your blog name. Please help me . . .
Your Friend in Wine,
Yogi (happily retired on the Gulf Coast of Texas)
Hi Yogi, I sent you an email.
I am using a nickname since my real name wasn’t available as a domain, and I was keeping some of this stuff fairly low key. People do figure out the connection after a while.
Enjoy Texas! but, the wine is better here, I think? Yes?
Annie