On Thursday I got my CSA box and it was loaded with cucumbers, 4 big ones. That night we had sandwiches. I’d made some malted wheat bread, and there was still some sourdough. We had the first really good tomato from Black Earth Valley; they went to the Westside Saturday market July 9, and so … [Read more…]
On Monday (July 11) Susan and I walked and took pictures of flowers.
So, last week was kind of funny, because we got back from the library conference on Wednesday. I worked some on Wednesday afternoon, then full days Thursday – including going to campus to volunteer for the book sale – and Friday, and then it was the holiday weekend. Saturday I wore myself out on food … [Read more…]
I went to the American Library Association conference in Washington D. C., back in person for the first time in three years. This required doing all kinds of things I’m way out of practice of doing like booking a hotel & airline travel. Despite dire warnings from UW’s travel agent – I got an email … [Read more…]
I feel like I’m forgetting everything I ever knew, and especially how to do all the things I’m supposed to be good at. Getting old and irrelevant, not keeping up. Maybe I’m living in that Billy Collins poem. I know one of the ways I’m feeling not like myself is how little documentation of cooking … [Read more…]
I keep having this feeling that it’s all slipping away and I’m neglecting my recording responsibilities. I have never journaled; this blog is it. I envy my brother and other friends who have been writing in notebooks for years. I feel like it’s too late to start now. Plus for me so much is the … [Read more…]
This Memorial Day hasn’t been much like other Memorial Days where we had lots of people over, and kids visiting from out of town, and went to picnics and outdoor concerts. We did have a small gathering on Saturday, our traditional driveway picnic, but it made me kind of question my hostess status, like do … [Read more…]
Or, one step forward, two steps back. Like the Grateful Dead song, “Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride”. Just like everything, the weather is up and down, back and forth. A week ago Friday the high was 90°, today it’s 60°. For every positive thing, seems like there’re at least two negatives. And … [Read more…]
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. End of semester and grading, conferences, trips to Chicago, extra volunteer work …. and any minute now I am going to hear from my CSA farm that the deliveries are about to start and it’s time to start writing recipes. And there’s still some from last year that … [Read more…]
Susan and I walked early on Wednesday, rescheduled from our usual Monday because she was on grandma childcare duty on Monday. We were going early because I was supposed to be downtown at 10:00 for a coffee date. But, my 10:00 cancelled, so I went grocery shopping instead. And experienced some supply chain issue frustrations. … [Read more…]