I’m still having this problem where I forget to photograph food. I think it’s partially because I feel like the pictures of, for example, a pan of scones from 2025 looks almost the same as the one from 2020. And also because it’s the time of year where it’s too dark to get a good … [Read more…]
So yea, our last trip to Chicago, Friday & Saturday, we went and saw a couple of shows at the Art Institute, Gustave Caillebotte and and Elizabeth Catlett. We also got to walk around in Humboldt Park where John & Megan live and liked it a lot. We took the Bloomingdale bike path to the … [Read more…]
We started off my birthday celebrations with a party on Friday. On Saturday we went to the Farmers Market and bought probably too much food for people who were going away on both Sunday and Thursday. On Saturday night Madison got over 2 inches of rain, but the basement mostly stayed dry, thanks to the … [Read more…]
This year my birthday’s a Monday so we started the festivities off with a little party on Friday night. I tried to keep the menu simple – no hot appetizers, everything on the table basically at once, no replenishing. It worked pretty well but I didn’t take enough pictures. Any, really. Like of my favorite … [Read more…]
And I haven’t even told you about Denver, or much beyond our first day there. When I backed up my pictures there were 51 – it’s been that long since I last did a backup. To start, the following pics are our 1st day in Denver and our first post-birthday day back in Madison. Our … [Read more…]
I am trying to figure out this retired thing, schedule-wise. I seem to never have time to do the things I thought I’d have more time for, like blog posts and art and food photography and reorganizing the basement. Cooking in general. Exercise. Fixing up the house. Oh, and I want to get another cat. … [Read more…]
And we also had a busy John’s birthday weekend before. Last year we were in Chicago for John’s birthday, but he was so busy with work we never even saw him. This year we had brunch with John & Megan the weekend before, and found out that not only were John & Megan coming to … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago on John’s birthday, but we didn’t get to see John. We had tickets for the opera, Tosca, that’s really long, two intermissions. It started at 7:00, so we made a dinner reservation for 5:00, thinking maybe they could join us at the restaurant for a drink if the timing worked out. … [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…]
After that cranky Friday, there was a whole weekend, during which I spent a good bit of time preparing for Tuesday’s election. Saturday we biked to the Farmers Market in a hurry so I could get back in time to drive to the City County Building to pick up the supply tote. See Mark’s cat … [Read more…]