A trip to Chicago for two nights instead of one. Valentines Day was a Saturday this year, kicking off the weekend. The followng Tuesday was Mardi Gras, the last day of carnival, and Election Day, and Lunar New year, the start of a couple of weeks of festivities for those who celebrate. Tuesday was also … [Read more…]
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…]
Since the 15th, so that means like two weeks plus of no blog posts. I am going to see if I can remember what I did in all that time. I definitely don’t have enough pictures. We flew back to Madison from Denver on the 18th. Since we got a direct flight out of Madison … [Read more…]
We started off looking at a show of work by Raymond Saunders, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was inspired to be an artist by his high school teachers and also by taking the Saturday morning art classes at the Carnegie, that Andy Warhol also attended. It was called the Tam O’Shanter classes when I … [Read more…]
We’re about to walk over to UW Hospital to get my cast taken off. Yay! With a little confusion about how it’s all supposed to work. Judging from the app, I’m supposed to go to orthopedics, then to x-ray to get x-rayed, I think in the cast, then to see the Physicians Assistant. Everything’s 30 … [Read more…]
So here we are on September 22 September 23, and I have not written anything since the 9th, when I was in Denver for Ethan & Megan’s wedding. Which was a lot of fun – here’s my favorite picture. The DJ did a trick to get everyone onto the floor, and I took a few … [Read more…]
We went to Chicago on John’s birthday, but we didn’t get to see John. We had tickets for the opera, Tosca, that’s really long, two intermissions. It started at 7:00, so we made a dinner reservation for 5:00, thinking maybe they could join us at the restaurant for a drink if the timing worked out. … [Read more…]
And that was all the way last weekend already. We took the train. We dropped our bags at the hotel, met John & Megan at Dollop for coffee, and proceeded on to the Art Institute. I wanted to see Bisa Butler, John wanted to see Richard Hunt, and we all wanted to see the Obama … [Read more…]
… cookie fairy escapades, grading, working remotely constantly, and all the way up to Christmas Eve. Sunday morning after the party I washed the last serving platter at 9:37. I made this cranberry ginger cake from Milk Street Kitchen that I had had a vision of serving warm with mascarpone whipped cream at the party, … [Read more…]
When I should be baking cookies. We got up Saturday morning and went to pick up our Thanksgiving turkey at the indoor farmers’ market. Actually we sneaked into the Monona Terrace lot and transferred the box with our name on it from the back of Matt’s truck to the back of our car, and then … [Read more…]