And other fun in strip mall land in central Florida. Since it’s June, and I get my allotment for the whole year at the end of the month, I don’t have any actual vacation days left, although I do have banked time and personal days. But since I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at … [Read more…]
…with the librarians, and in Chicago, too, to have dinner with John & Megan and catch my flight to Florida. Tuesday was a long day – at 7:30 AM I was on my way to the community center to serve waffles for the food pantry breakfast. At 7:30 PM I was in Chicago at Orchestra … [Read more…]
… is kind of my new phrase, when stuff goes awry, when I’ve had just about enough, with apologies to all the Pete’s I know, although I think at least one of them would like being the epigram of gone awry. As in, “Oh for Pete’s sake”, I have been trying to write this thing … [Read more…]
My basement has always leaked a little, ever since we first moved in, in 1999. At first it was just a little seepage along the driveway side of the house. I remember the unhappy discovery that the pile of old wood and construction scraps that the prior owners had left there had actually been functioning … [Read more…]
Seen from the front porch Saturday morning; it got pretty hot later in the day but was still nice and cool at 7:00 or so when I saw these dewy leaves. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=medium] I had avocado toast with radish leaf aioli and fruit salad for Saturday breakfast after we biked to the Farmers’ Market. … [Read more…]
I’m worried that I’ve become a blog post whiner, or even worse, a blog post bore. That my posts are the kind that have a lot of, “then I did this, then I went here, then I felt guilty for eating too much”, rather than sparkling wit and keen observations of what I am seeing … [Read more…]
So many recipes are for those who are too busy to cook. Me, I’m not too busy to cook, but I’m too busy for writing. I feel like I’ve had some successes, made some tasty food, as the Penzy’s signs say, but that may or may not be apparent in the written version. Last Thursday … [Read more…]