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Join us as we explore Willamette Valley Wine Country one weekend at a time!

  • the lovely honeybees
  • wonderful food
  • exceptional wine
  • a house becomes a home

Spending the Day with My Mom

May 12, 2014 by Kristen

Mother’s Day was a total success this year! We had my family over for brunch, and The Renaissance Man certainly out did himself with the menu. We had a fruit platter, mimosas, latkes with apple sauce and sour cream, bacon, and a ham, spinach, and gruyere cheese frittata! My mouth waters just thinking about it.

Our morning started off early so that we could make a quick batch of banana bread since we had accumulated quite the collection of smelly black bananas. We slightly tweaked a recipe from our friend Ann, and wow did the house smell amazing! The trick is to sugar coat the inside of the baking tin and sprinkle a healthy amount of sugar on top to get a nice crunchy crust.

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Filed Under: Dundee, Hot Air Balloons Tagged With: Chalk Board, Table Arrangement

Women in the Trades, High School Girls’ Day Career Fair

May 10, 2014 by Kristen

I met a really fantastic woman named Terri Wiley a few months back through a mutual friend. Terri works as the marketing director and grant writer for an organization called Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. Every year Oregon Tradeswoman puts on a Career Fair and has been doing so for the last 22 years! I was so intrigued, that I had to go check it out and decided to volunteer at the High School Girls’ Day. It was one of those experiences where you leave feeling totally jazzed and excited about the future for the next generation of women. Women in the Trades totally rock!

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Filed Under: Volunteering Tagged With: Oregon Tradeswoman, Women in the Trades Career Fair

Removing the Honeybee Kits, and Taking a Look Inside

May 10, 2014 by Kristen

Since this is our first time having honeybees we’ve done a ton of reading, and have been following the instructions we were given with the bee kits as closely as possible. However, Mother Nature had another plan this week. Ideally we were only suppose to leave the bee kits in the hive for seven to nine days to make sure the queen bonds with her hive.

However, it’s been raining quite a bit the last week or so, and the temperatures have been on the cold side. I say this because in order to get the bee kits out you have to open the hive and you don’t want to do that when it’s cold or rainy. The hive likes to stay between 93° and 96°F with very little moisture, so we waited, and waited.

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First Friday ARTwalk–May 2014

May 8, 2014 by Kristen

I like to think about the City of Newberg as the City of Dundee’s older sister. The two towns are similar, but oh so different. Since Newberg is a little bigger and a little older, it’s had time to develop some really great traditions. One of those traditions being First Friday ARTwalk!

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