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…]
Two thoughts on aging: 1) My friend Susan started one conversation a few weeks ago by saying she thought she was ready for the old people’s home, because she had left a Le Creuset (enamel on cast iron) pot of tomatoes slow cooking for such a long time that the tomatoes permanently attached to the … [Read more…]
And other events. In Chicago, I’m starting Earth Day off with a cup of coffee brewed in a hotel Keurig machine, a.k.a. probably the most polluting way to make coffee. We came down to see a Chicago symphony concert and have dinner with John & Megan, and I did just toss the paper symphony ticket … [Read more…]
I hope! I feel like this is kind of the danger zone, 5 weeks on crutches, that I hit once before when I started building up my walking and turned out my knee was still broken. I’m still trying NOT to walk farther than a couple of blocks, but last week I started biking again, … [Read more…]
Friday was the last day of classes. It was a Jasper-care day for me, doing some grading and catching up on email while he napped. The kids let me off early because I had to drive down to campus to run the iSchool student awards ceremony, a hybrid event, decoupled from the graduation ceremony for … [Read more…]
It’s been the long, lost week that ended with Mother’s Day. I was so busy grading with work work work, emailing students & sites about summer practicums, meetings, other administrivia, and moderating sessions at the Wisconsin Library Association Public Libraries conference that I didn’t take very many walks or bike rides – with the stunning … [Read more…]
This week, I’ve taken lots and lots of pictures of flowers, both out on walks and and on my kitchen counter. Today, Saturday, when we got up, it was about 49°. We wore gloves biking to the farmers market. The prediction was for a high of 80°, and now it’s 86º at 5:30, and super … [Read more…]
Sunday morning (oh, that’s a song) I decided the best way to de-stress was to NOT try to walk or go out & exercise before brunch. Carl & Susan are coming over – oldsters like us, and fully vaxed – and I’m making a pretty simple menu** that gets done à la minute, except for … [Read more…]
So, last weekend, I only wrote about chicken, but I actually cooked some other things. On April Fool’s day, I burned a perfectly good batch of sourdough. I set a timer and went upstairs to work and when the time went off I thought I’d go check the bread after I finished an email, and … [Read more…]
Somehow I thought May would be less busy, since the UW semester ended May 3. I gave my students until May 10 to submit final projects, which means I just finished grading today (May 16). And the University must’ve tightened some regulation or something, because I (and lots of other faculty & instructors) got all … [Read more…]