I haven’t told you about what we’ve been up to since we got back from Denver and there’s been a bit, 2 trips to Chicago, Valentine’s Day, the spring primary election, Jasper coming over, and of course, the return to baking, now that I’m out of the cast. Saturday (Feb 22) was my mom’s and … [Read more…]
We’re visiting the kids in Denver. We scheduled the trip so that we’d be here to help out with the 1-and-three-quarters year-old, because mom is pregnant with grandchild #3 and feeling sick all the time, and their nanny’s on vacation, and dad has to work. But it’s been really easy. We’ve been spending a ton … [Read more…]
We’re about to walk over to UW Hospital to get my cast taken off. Yay! With a little confusion about how it’s all supposed to work. Judging from the app, I’m supposed to go to orthopedics, then to x-ray to get x-rayed, I think in the cast, then to see the Physicians Assistant. Everything’s 30 … [Read more…]
Chicago, that is. We went to the second city to see some culture imported from New York City: Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a jazz big band with 15 permanent members. We got tickets for both Friday and Saturday. Friday was origins of bebop, featuring works by Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Mary … [Read more…]
Because we live in Madison WI, a college town, we get winter break when the students are gone, basically New Year’s to MLK Day, with the town to ourselves. So we try to take advantage of the situation and go places that would otherwise be crowded. There’s a restaurant downtown, Short Stack, that usually has … [Read more…]
… just a little different. We went to see a show as we’ve often done before but at a bar we’d never been to before, Hungry Brain. Kind of a cool place with little tables and some red leather booths and a nice stage. For the first set, they played excerpts of several classical pieces, … [Read more…]
Of course I’m feeling kind of limited by my broken wrist one-handedness, but I’m looking for the upsides. And musing on which is worse, all the time I spent limited by my knee injury that dragged on for like a year and a half, on crutches, off crutches, on crutches again, followed by limited walking, … [Read more…]
Somehow we didn’t get around to doing a lot of things we usually do at Christmas. We never brought down the lite brite tree. and 2017 We didn’t have lights on the front porch, so here’re some animated ones. We went to Al & Emma & Jasper’s on Christmas day for Chinese take out for … [Read more…]
Aw shit man. Yesterday, Boxing Day, I had my yaxtrax on because I was planning on going for a walk, and I took a short detour to get something in the garage (there was random trash stuck to the bottom of the trash bin that I’d just wheeled down the driveway and I wanted to … [Read more…]
Sorry to be such a sucky reporter of cookie season. It was so compressed this year. I feel like I missed everything from Nov. 30-Dec. 14 when the party was because all I did was stay home and bake. With a few exceptions: we did go to the Madison Symphony Christmas show on the 7th. … [Read more…]