I guess Saturday was the first day of fall, the Autumnal Equinox. I did a bunch of Fall-ish cooking things, including dealing with my 25 pounds of plum tomatoes that I biked up to the Square and purchased on Wednesday morning. In the freezer, I now have a quart of herbed, chunky tomato sauce, one … [Read more…]
Wow, I’ve not written for the same amount of time that was the out of date-ness of the milk that I tried to microwave for my coffee this morning, that turned into yogurt, or almost cottage cheese really, with the application of heat – curds and whey. It’s been busy and I’ve been forgetting, akin … [Read more…]
It seemed like a long hard week even though it was only 4 days. Tuesday I started off serving the pantry breakfast. It was the first UN-rainy day in forever, and as I already observed it felt great to bike to the east side. Came back and took Anna shopping for food to pack in … [Read more…]
No grilling. No parties or friends over. No biking. Lots of rain, and flash flood warnings, and sopping up the basement on Friday night. Now they say we’re under an areal flood warning – I guess that’s when there might be flooding due to slow seepage, instead of flash. On Friday I left work early, … [Read more…]
My friend Anna had a significant birthday back in July. I sent her a card saying I’d bake her the birthday treat of her choice and she chose banana cream pie. Delivery worked out to be the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and the day after the new student orientation for the on-campus students at … [Read more…]
So on my side of town, we got the most rain on Monday. About three inches here, that all came down between 4:00 and 5:30, and then again between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Resulting in about 30 gallons of water in my basement that I sucked up with the shop vac, and sopped up with … [Read more…]
We did a Wednesday to Monday Door County vacation, me, Mark, and Anna, our AFS student who’s barely been here 10 days. Wednesday was a travel day and White Gull Fish boil for dinner. I had 32 5-page papers to read from my summer class and the cabin WiFi was a little iffy, so I … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]
Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp, for our new incoming class of online graduate students. Bootcamp takes place during the last week of summer classes at UW-Madison, which always fall on the first full week of August. One of my colleagues has started saying, “Bootcamp ruins the summer” – and it’s … [Read more…]
I was lucky enough to see the band the Baseball Project last night – at an outdoor show at Madison’s Central Park (renamed this summer to McPike Park, in honor of Mr. McPike, former principal of East High School, known for being tough but fair). The Baseball Project’s songs are about baseball like the very … [Read more…]