Our AFS student is here on a State Department scholarship and at the beginning of the month, they took all the kids to DC, and we think she came back with Covid. The trip was from a Monday to a Thursday and she tested negative on the following Monday after she got back, but then … [Read more…]
I have a cold and there’s been a Covid outbreak on my daughter-in-law’s sister’s side of the family, so we’ve all been spending Christmas NOT getting together. Whatever we’ve got it’s keeping us away from dat baby. For Christmas Eve, Mark and I had homemade pizza and watched Love Actually and the Christmas Ted Lasso … [Read more…]
Susan and I walked early on Wednesday, rescheduled from our usual Monday because she was on grandma childcare duty on Monday. We were going early because I was supposed to be downtown at 10:00 for a coffee date. But, my 10:00 cancelled, so I went grocery shopping instead. And experienced some supply chain issue frustrations. … [Read more…]
Here in this (almost unbelievably) 3rd spring of the pandemic, it’s different now, especially when you are choosing the right thing to do, also the title of book my brother wrote, almost 25 years ago. I mean there’s not that crushing fear of getting sick, like there was in the first months. Even more I … [Read more…]
Here it is Christmas Day, very happy merry to all! and I am just now getting to the party/cookie season wrap up. [probably] Needless to say, I did not take any pictures of cookie platters when I was making them for the pandemic-style party, with people coming in shifts, all eating & drinking upstairs, cookie-box … [Read more…]
Oh, hey, hi – remember me? I’ve been not doing a lot of stuff recently … not taking pictures of cookies, not writing blog posts, not keeping track of what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising in my diet & exercise app. Some days I walk 5 miles, some days none. I have been … [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…]
For Thanksgiving, I usually make a giant bucket of chex mix, and torment my family with it. We eat it while we’re waiting for dinner. There’s nothing like real butter and fresh garlic to make tempting junk food even more addictive. I didn’t make pickled carrots, either. We cancelled our 6-person, socially distanced, out in … [Read more…]
As I’ve complained recently, I just haven’t been photographing all the food I’ve been cooking for just the two of us. And, we’re getting to that time of year when it’s too dark in the evening to take good, natural light, food shots. I’ve been having some successes and some failures, too. So in the … [Read more…]
We risked travel while Wisconsin is the Corona virus hotspot of the country. We left Madison Monday afternoon. This is Tuesday morning in Door County. Supposed to be vacation, but I had a meeting and 2 online classes on Tuesday and another meeting on Wednesday. I’m happy to report that people are being very good … [Read more…]