We had two Thanksgivings-es this year: the first on the actual day, at Al & Emma’s, and the second here at home, on Black Friday, which is when we’ve been doing our Thanksgiving for a quite a while now. For Al & Emma’s I made an apple slab pie that took over the world – … [Read more…]
Last Sunday we took a day trip to Chicago for the opera, a cool staging of Mozart’s Magic flute, that looked very 1930s Deco with singers in silent movie white face makeup. I thought it was a remake of an actual jazz age production, but it’s 21st century, in that style. The production was designed … [Read more…]
I started writing this post last Sunday as Halloween 2021, continued yesterday, a week later, when nothing had gotten written except the title. So I changed it to Stuck. And now I am continuing on post-fall-back Monday morning, when it seems like I have a little extra time to write, before I go out to … [Read more…]
We went on another trip to Chicago, an overnight for a Friday evening symphony and there was no school that day, so our exchange student came with. We stayed at a Fairfield Inn to get a pull out couch for the kid. We did a bunch of things we had not done since pandemic, like … [Read more…]
So, the last week and a half or so, I’ve been acquiring things. Maybe it’s the change in the seasons (it’s finally cooled off, although it still seems a little warm for October), maybe it’s coming out of pandemic, but I’ve been buying stuff, some for me, some for the house. Maybe it’s because I … [Read more…]
My little song for a Tuesday, when I drive, because I volunteer at the food pantry, and then have to be at work, looking presentable, for class at 1:30. I had a weekend of minor but kinda permanent mishaps – Saturday in the Target parking lot I put the first scratch on my car, and … [Read more…]
Hi ho, Hi ho. And other disappointments. And transitioning from summer to fall, which I usually quite like but somehow keep getting fooled by this year. Like I’ll choose a piece of clothing from a drawer, and then put it back, thinking that it’s not fall enough to wear whatever it is, fleece, sweater, leggings … [Read more…]
Last Friday, one of my older son John’s best friends from high school in Madison got married to John’s girlfriend’s best friend from high school in Iowa. It was a lovely wedding, all in one place, the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. My son had this gang of guys who all ate lunch at my … [Read more…]
But it didn’t quite work out. Yesterday – Thursday – was supposed to be a long day. My schedule was go to campus, volunteer at the book sale, meet a studnet (who didn’t show), followed by back-to-back online class meetings, one at 6:00 PM, and one at 8:00. And somewhere in there, between 4:00 and … [Read more…]
On Thursday I picked up my almost-annual 25# box of tomatoes from my CSA. And now, Sunday night, in the freezer, there are about 4 cartons of diced tomatoes, 2 pints of pizza sauce, and a carton of roasted tomato sauce. Last night I roasted two 13 x 9 x 2 pans each with tomatoes, … [Read more…]