It’s that gorgeous time of year when everything is green and blooming. And half the time you love it and half the time there’s a little voice whispering, “I’m not ready”. I do have a crop (haha) of spring at least adjacent pictures. Our already almost done lilacs. Welham’s tree, also in the banner above … [Read more…]
Somehow last week got kinda busy. Monday and Tuesday weren’t so bad, and I told you about them the last post. The rest of the week was the problem – three days in a row with all-day things, Wednesday Jasper, Thursday the state library conference, and Friday we went to Chicago for the symphony. Followed … [Read more…]
So, like I said, Friday was my last day in the office, but I am still a UW employee until sometime in August, using up banked leave. And I will be going back Wednesday to finish cleaning out papers in my office – two file cabinet drawers and my bulletin board left to do – … [Read more…]
The (?) is because it’s been super cold the last couple of days. Here it is the 2nd weekend in June, and we had a lovely Memorial Day, by some miracle. We had a few really hot days, and some pretty hazy days from the Canadian wild fires, but we’ve had a lot of sunny … [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…]
One of the books I’m reading for the Wisconsin Library Association awards is Tomboyland, by Melissa Faliveno. I read the first essay, The Finger of God, that’s partially about the tornado that clobbered Barneveld in 1984. The sirens didn’t go off, and the tornado killed 9 people and destroyed 90% of the structures in the … [Read more…]
And family togetherness. On Saturday morning we tried out the big Farmers Market again, followed by a stop at Madison Farmers Unite to pick up a pre-order. It’s a nice bike ride, until you get the vicinity of the county facility where the market is held. The bike paths peter out, and even though this … [Read more…]
I didn’t even write on Sunday this week. Now it’s the Monday before Fat Tuesday, and I just got the turkey gizzards from Thanksgiving out of the freezer, for making dirty rice tomorrow, and set out milk, butter, and eggs to warm up for making a King Cake today tomorrow morning. I guess the first … [Read more…]
And I’m not sure the one after’s starting any better. Last week started on Tuesday because of the Labor Day holiday, but even though it was a short week I feel like more bad things happened than good. And, I started writing this Saturday and am just now finishing the following Tuesday. It was the … [Read more…]
We got up like regular for a Saturday, and biked to to the Westside farmers market, the “new normal”, since the big downtown market on the square is cancelled for this summer, and the replacement is drive- or bike-through markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You have to pre-order, and I’m torn, because I really admire … [Read more…]