Just so you know we continue to scramble with and for the Food Bank, last week we tackled one million chicken wings.

Most of you know that we made a commitment on my home’s 100th birthday to the next yet-to-be-determined steward of The Surgeon’s House of keeping a monthly diary of the happenings here.  Even to my somewhat surprise, we have been faithful [...]

Recent long-term guests, Roabie and Jerry Johnson, were visiting the Verde Valley to honor Jerry’s mother, Anna Johnson’s 104th birthday on 5/22.  I commented on the coincidence that The Surgeon’s House was also celebrating her 104th birthday however the specific date is [...]

The end of March saw us enduring yet another assault by the javelina resulting in the devastation of the front porch planters we had just replanted two weeks before.  To our chagrin, it seemed another gate was in order.  Joshua [...]

Nearly anyone who has visited The Surgeon’s House knows that the current owner is absolutely over-the-moon gaga for all things PENCILS and she is not alone.  Did you realize that each year March 30 is National Pencil Day and rightly so!  In [...]

You know we make diligent attempts to live in harmony with our wild furry critters but they recently stressed our bounds of camaraderie and harmony.  Take a look at the ‘landscape’ that greeted us on Monday morning. [...]

Every week our arrival at the food bank is filled with anticipation and surprise as we never know what has made its way to us.  Some items are always in short supply and eggs are nearly at the top of [...]

We recently enjoyed a long-overdue return visit from guests Mary Alice and Jim Fox, both artists.  When they were here perhaps 14 years ago, Jim gifted us two extraordinary watercolors which were framed and have hung in the atrium and Chauffeur’s Quarters [...]

We continue to stretch our wings for and with the Food Bank volunteers and recipients.  This time, Ann (who is the head honcho each week making this darned thing happen) mentioned that she had chickens and might we use them?  [...]

If you’re following us in The Evolving Morsel section of the site, then you know that Miss Prince has yet again been dragged not-so-kicking-and-screaming this time into our current cyberspace world by sharing the entire contents of our cookbook online.  Find [...]