I’ve been going around in a black cloud for most of this week, worrying about money, primarily. And I know, I know, these are all problems of privilege – I am fortunate to have all this stuff to worry about. I remember being at the courthouse for something related to my second foster kid, with … [Read more…]
So, just 2 weeks ago Saturday, the high was 54°, and one week ago it was blissful 72°. Today the high is predicted to be 89°, but I bet it goes higher than that, because yesterday it was 90°. Mark’s got the AC on upstairs and I don’t blame him. I don’t even get my … [Read more…]
… When it’s trying to be spring, and I’m just not ready. And, the last few years, I feel like, “Wait a minute we haven’t even really had winter yet, how can it be spring?” I first remember really feeling this way, not ready for spring but without the guilt about not having had winter … [Read more…]
As far as I know, both Sun Prairie Jimmy, and Punxatawney Phil (the real groundhog as far as a Pittsburgh girl like me is concerned) predicted six more weeks of winter on February 2nd. But here we are on March 3, a mere four weeks later, and it kind of seems like winter is over. … [Read more…]
The New Yorker sent out an advance look of next week’s cover, and it pretty much sums up how I feel. Thanks to Roz Chast. I feel like I’ve been holed up at work, trying to get my classes up and running, not even going for walks. The weather has been unpleasant for the most … [Read more…]
I’m going to the Library Conference instead … Organized by arktictoc And here’s more info about Solar Flare – in Norwegian & translated (I’m sure you can get Google translate to do your own translation too.) #Repost @f_stromstad ・・・ The No Ones, photo by Adam Selzer One of the 3 (count 'em) bands formed, triggered, … [Read more…]
It could’ve been foreshadowing of what was to come in my yoga class, where of course the teacher was going to talk about well being. Or it could’ve been the weather – which is back to “normal” for late February in Wisconsin, cold, snowy, sunny. Or maybe because I was happily thinking that plans I’d … [Read more…]
I guess we’re having March in February – warm in the day time, getting down to freezing overnight. Everyone looks so happy, but I just don’t like it. There are fat, fuzzy buds on this magnolia tree I walk past. True, it’s in a sheltered spot that gets a lot of sun, and it’s next … [Read more…]
We got a lot of rain over the weekend. On Thursday afternoon, it was hot and looked threatening, but I was determined to bike to get my CSA box – afterall it’s all those cars that are making it so hot. Mark was out walking and it was getting darker and darker, but he made … [Read more…]
My basement has always leaked a little, ever since we first moved in, in 1999. At first it was just a little seepage along the driveway side of the house. I remember the unhappy discovery that the pile of old wood and construction scraps that the prior owners had left there had actually been functioning … [Read more…]