So yea, our last trip to Chicago, Friday & Saturday, we went and saw a couple of shows at the Art Institute, Gustave Caillebotte and and Elizabeth Catlett. We also got to walk around in Humboldt Park where John & Megan live and liked it a lot. We took the Bloomingdale bike path to the … [Read more…]
Or clearing out. Organizing stuff, getting the stuff we don’t want all into one area, one pile, so I can call one of the junk haul away services. So I keep going down and looking around and telling myself I’m planning. Ha. There’s this white dresser that I think I should sell rather than get … [Read more…]
We’re in Denver for Mark’s son Ethan’s big fancy wedding, and I am at our Airbnb finally knocking off work, and finally writing a post here, my first one in the month of September, and it’s already the 9th. As the evil stepmother (well maybe not soooo evil) I didn’t have to go to the … [Read more…]
But it didn’t quite work out. Yesterday – Thursday – was supposed to be a long day. My schedule was go to campus, volunteer at the book sale, meet a studnet (who didn’t show), followed by back-to-back online class meetings, one at 6:00 PM, and one at 8:00. And somewhere in there, between 4:00 and … [Read more…]
On Thursday I picked up my almost-annual 25# box of tomatoes from my CSA. And now, Sunday night, in the freezer, there are about 4 cartons of diced tomatoes, 2 pints of pizza sauce, and a carton of roasted tomato sauce. Last night I roasted two 13 x 9 x 2 pans each with tomatoes, … [Read more…]
Some of the stuff I did do: Processed A LOT of tomatoes (I bought a 25-lb. box from my CSA that I brought home Thursday night); now in the freezer there is: A carton of chunky tomato sauce with white wine & rosemary; another of Marcella’s famous tomato-butter sauce; 2 cartons of roasted tomato sauce; … [Read more…]
Mostly I was on a tear to use up anything that wouldn’t keep while we’re at TIFF, and get all CSA veggies processed. On Friday I was going to make pizza, and I left some pizza dough rising in the fridge before I left for work. As it turned out Mark didn’t get back from … [Read more…]
No grilling. No parties or friends over. No biking. Lots of rain, and flash flood warnings, and sopping up the basement on Friday night. Now they say we’re under an areal flood warning – I guess that’s when there might be flooding due to slow seepage, instead of flash. On Friday I left work early, … [Read more…]