On Saturday morning, after Steve’s party, I woke up with a sore throat. Felt kind of flu-ish on Sunday and Monday, and wah lah by Wednesday evening, it had turned into a full blown gluggy runny nose sneezey head cold. But at least felt less like having the flu. I’ve been trying to get excited … [Read more…]
Well that was fun, but now I don’t feel like doing anything. On Sunday afternoon, I did a cooking demo at this new community event space, Threshold. I made focaccia with vegetable toppings, half potato-poblano and half delicata squash rings. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] And, this was the Sunday at the end of a week of … [Read more…]
The lovely and talented Lisa Marine said on Facebook that it was a “eating-my-salad-with-a-spoon kind of Monday”, and also a “took-my-umbrella-home-from-work-on-Friday-wall-of-water-rainstorm-on-Monday” kind of Monday. For me it was the firedrill 10 minutes after I got to work early to get ready for my 2:30 class kind of Monday, and, in that 2:30 class, Killed the … [Read more…]
This week felt like the real first week of school. Last week Labor Day made it an easy(ish) 4-day affair. This week was the real thing – not for sissies. Last Saturday Belana got stung by a bee at a cross country meet and had a bad reaction. So Monday my day started with calling … [Read more…]
My neighborhood is different now in the mornings when I walk, everybody’s up and out and walking the dog and walking the kids to school. It’s not all empty and sleepy like it was in the summer. In my twenties I was a fervent proponent of the belief that men and women are exactly the … [Read more…]
Is my tagline for the weekend, anyways. Or maybe that should be “seeking inspiration”. Friday I worked until 5:00, recording a lecture for one of my classes that I think I’m gonna do over, anyways. Came home and made a loaf of garlic bread with our German exchange student, so that she could take it … [Read more…]
I can’t decide if last week was the last week of summer, or if it’s really this one. It’s a late Labor Day, Sept. 5, and the high school kids have 2 days of school beforehand, but the college kids don’t go back until after. Either way, the school year is cranking up – I’ve … [Read more…]
On Sunday morning I got up and we had finally trapped a couple of raccoons. I think the trap slamming shut waked me at 4:30 AM, and when I went out a little before 7:00, there they were. Note how, in less than three hours, the one on the left – the mean one – … [Read more…]
Friday afternoon I had just finished saving all three of the syllabi I have due on Monday, and was wondering if it was time to check with John & Megan if they were still coming to Madison this weekend as planned, when John called to say they were not coming – because they had gotten … [Read more…]
Yesterday first thing I brought a slug in with the morning paper. That wasn’t so bad. On Saturday when we were getting our bikes out to go to the market, Mark noticed that the screen was ripped on the vent window in the attic. I kind of knew about it; I’d seen mice up there, … [Read more…]