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…]
Part of being this age is being unable to escape this song for this birthday. I just scrolled through the comments on the YouTube and some of them are pretty good, especially the guy who said he never thought he’d get to 64, which seemed impossibly old back in 1967 when Sargeant Pepper’s came out … [Read more…]
We didn’t really go to Chicago to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. We had tickets for the opera Saturday – the Lyric doing La Traviata – and we were supposed to go to a Chicago Symphony chamber concert Sunday afternoon. And, I wanted to take John out for his birthday, coming up on Monday. The chamber … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]
On Monday night I walked up the hill to dinner at the Chancellor’s house, and a butterfly landed on the sidewalk near me. It reminded me of an image I’d gotten from the website I’d just reviewed for the Scout Report – digitized covers of the Queenslander, a weekly magazine supplement to the Brisbane Courier … [Read more…]