Neither Punxsutawney Phil nor Jimmy the Groundhog saw their shadows today, so they’re predicting an early spring. But we haven’t even really had winter yet. Remember it was 50° and misty and rainy on Christmas Eve and Christmas, and we did have a few bits of snow here and there. Then we had the big … [Read more…]
Tuesday began the transition from cookie season to holiday season. It was the first day in weeks when I didn’t eat a single cookie … well, except for 2 pieces of the layered white chocolate peppermint bark. But that can almost be considered a refresher rather than a cookie. Instead I ate too much of … [Read more…]
My knee is still broken. The follow up MRI I had last Tuesday showed my knee fracture is not healed. I got the results Tuesday night in UWHealth MyChart – since the MRI was a referral from Group Heath, GHC, to UWHealth, then I got the results again from GHC Wednesday morning. I waited until … [Read more…]
Or, one step forward, two steps back. Like the Grateful Dead song, “Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride”. Just like everything, the weather is up and down, back and forth. A week ago Friday the high was 90°, today it’s 60°. For every positive thing, seems like there’re at least two negatives. And … [Read more…]
This week has been freezing and thawing, up to 45° one day, down to single digits the next. Today, Sunday, has the widest range yet – it was 26° when I got up, 51° in late afternoon, and supposed to get al the way back down to freezing by the time I get up tomorrow. … [Read more…]
The February March is an old record by Lou & Peter Berryman, and the title track has lyrics like: “I tell you we’re all gettin’ weary of little SiberiaJeepers enough is enoughI tell you uh-huh I’m okay when it’s 80 in MayBut uh-uh when it’s zero and dark” But that’s what winters used to be … [Read more…]
… but I forgot. It’s been that kind of a week, meetings, like the one on Thursday talking about are we going to Fall conferences or what; getting our AFS student registered for school and starting running; grad student problem emails; updating syllabi … wondering what the hell is going on, both weather-wise, and pandemic-related. … [Read more…]
Mostly trying to catch up with friends, give cookies away, and eat and drink a little too much, in a typical holiday fashion. Saturday my Dad would’ve been 99 years old if he was still here having birthdays – he stopped in 1998 at 77 (though the metadata in this Pitt Archives photo is incorrect; … [Read more…]
26 December is the British holiday Boxing Day, which is kind of the leftovers holiday – wealthy families would give the servants the day off to go home and see their families, and give them Christmas boxes, with bonuses and leftover food to take with. There’s also the Boxing Day sandwich, turkey and stuffing and … [Read more…]
So ever since the garage job started the first week of August the overhanging question was would it be done in time for us to move all the stuff from the Chicago apartment into it at the end of October. And no, unfortunately, I did not meet my goal of taking daily progress pics, sorry … [Read more…]