I know I’ve complained about this time of year before (like in 2023 and 2024 and I’m using one of those forsythia in the snow pics as my iPhone wallpaper now), when all my volunteer and side gigs get super busy. This year I’m not even working, no student advising, but it’s just another bit … [Read more…]
I haven’t told you about what we’ve been up to since we got back from Denver and there’s been a bit, 2 trips to Chicago, Valentine’s Day, the spring primary election, Jasper coming over, and of course, the return to baking, now that I’m out of the cast. Saturday (Feb 22) was my mom’s and … [Read more…]
So since we’ve been back from Yorkshire, I haven’t had a single day with nothing on the calendar. There’s been: UW-Libraries Friend’s Book sale – that was my Weds. and Saturday right after we got back; On the first Friday after getting back, I had Jasper and we went to the park after music class … [Read more…]
Told ya I’d be back. It is now Sunday Monday of after another over scheduled weekend, and I am trying to catch up back to last week. Anyways, it rained last Monday, hard a few times, and I managed not only to bike to the University library and home again without getting significantly wet, I … [Read more…]
My over-scheduled existence is supposed to be easing up slightly … I think it actually is, but I still feel pretty busy. And tired. But I do feel like I have a little more time to get organized so let’s do it – a catching up post to list all the activities since last we … [Read more…]
I’ve been thinking about bread a lot recently. For what might be my 1st recipe-a-month, I made bread. Crescent rolls. Al said they made poppin’ dough crescents and Jasper liked them, so I thought I’d try to make a homemade version. Plus we were having leftover chicken divan and I wanted a side bread that … [Read more…]
April really is the cruellest month this year. The rains came on election day, Tuesday. I watched it just sheeting down from the windows of the polling place. It changed to snow just as I was leaving. It was wet slushy stuff, and made it very hard to see when driving. And also hard to … [Read more…]
Last Friday we were supposed to leave for 2 nights and 3 days in Chicago. But the weather was sounding scary – wet snow – and Thursday night we chickened out and decided to leave Saturday morning instead. Which brought a feeling of great relief and then of course the snow didn’t amount to much. … [Read more…]
Feeling so behind and not sure where to start … Looks like I last posted on March 25 – that was the Saturday we got a foot of snow between something like 2:00am and 11:00am, and I went off to work at the early voting during it. We were in this really nice back room … [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…]