On Wednesday, we started our day with bacon sandwiches at St Lawrence Market. That was a heap of bacon. After the bacon, we proceeded on to Darkest Hour, yet another cinematic depiction of WWII, before the US got involved, like Dunkirk, and yet another version of Winston Churchill. We last saw him played by John … [Read more…]
On our day 4, Monday, our first movie was Happy End directed by Michael Haneke, the Austrian director. It’s kind of a sequel to sequel to 2012’s Amour, that I think we tried to see at our very first TIFF. It was really well done but hard to feel sympathetic for all those rich people. … [Read more…]
Days 1, 2, & 3 for us anyways – the Festival really started Thursday, so our day 1 was actually day 2 officially. It didn’t start getting confusing until Monday, when all the introducers started saying, “welcome to day 5” when it was only day 4 for us. But that’s the next post. <grin> Day … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]
From Sunday to Wednesday last week we were tourists in our nation’s Capital. We got in on Sunday morning, dropped our bags at the hotel – a Kimpton that I got at an astonishingly good price – and went off seeking breakfast. I took a picture of a building tear-down and got another one on … [Read more…]
Last Thursday, the last day of the new online students’ on-campus orientation, I got a big, summer-y CSA box. That’s a few green beans, “silver” and green cucumbers, something like 2 1/3 pounds of tomatoes, bunches of basil and leaf lettuce, an onion two little melons, and 10 ears of corn. After I brought all … [Read more…]
Cream puffs Taking pics of our puffs Speed rack o’ unfilled puffs Puffs getting filled Adell, a Brown Swiss Adell lying down Three cows lying down Two cows lying down Ferris Wheel as seen from the glider Loaded tots All day breakfast tots
Since the last time I wrote, a little over a week ago, I’ve been to another wedding of another kid – my first foster daughter – and survived the first day of our new students’ Bootcamp. I dried some of Al & Emma’s flowers. They remind me of these somehow. This bouquet that somebody tossed … [Read more…]
This time last Sunday I was out for a walk with Rachael, about to come home and start brunch prep. The house was full of people, family here for the wedding. On Tuesday we got another house guest, a medical student here from Malawi for UW’s Global Health Institute that my neighbor who’s a pediatrician … [Read more…]
Last Saturday, and I haven’t even blogged about it yet. Here are a few pictures, and I’ll try to do it justice in the next post. The overleaf, word press featured image, is Emma’s bouquet, which is my iPhone wallpaper right now.