For many many years, late March into the first two weeks of April has always been a busy busy time for me. My regular job and side hustles always converged, advising week and the spring election and the WI Film fest and the Friends of the Libraries Book sale. Even last year when I was … [Read more…]
Mark’s brother Gregg is six years older and started having kids while he was in his 20s, while Mark didn’t have his one kid until he was 40. So Mark’s brother’s grandkids, of which there are six, are almost as old as Mark’s son. Gregg and his wife Jean’s birthdays are close together in May, … [Read more…]
And other Easter celebratory things, as much as can be expected from a non-religious person like me, whose last name is Shapiro. So here’re more pictures of the Easter eggs I made with Jasper on Wednesday. The method I read on Instagram for how to do the eggs said to use “medicine cups” for the … [Read more…]
There is a fine coat of dust on many of the surfaces in my house, at least the ones that I have not cleaned yet. And no not like dust in the Phillip Pullman books, that’s an elementary particle, the stuff of angels. This is plaster dust, fine dust that sifts in everywhere, and it’s … [Read more…]
I added a spring-y banner, hellebore that I photographed last year in late March. And we had a kind of tapas potatoes, potatoes baked in a spicy sauce, like the hot tapas patatas bravas, with baked eggs & fruit salad & bacon & sourdough toast for brunch. Now I’m going to make banana pudding, with … [Read more…]
Let’s go day by day. On Wednesday my next door neighbors got a new furnace and air conditioner installed. The air conditioner unit is in between our houses, where it’s still a muddy trench from the garage construction – the landscapers aren’t able to schedule our reconstruction work as yet due to the pandemic. Only … [Read more…]
Sometimes I’ve said that the only good thing that ever happened to me in March is my older son John’s birth. Mark used to say that I get weird around John’s birthday, but I think I just get weird in March. It’s spring, but it’s dirty crusty old snow spring. And sunny but a … [Read more…]
Sorry, I kind of left you hanging about the lump I found on my shoulder, last Saturday. I went to the doctor, and the verdict is it’s arthritis. I guess it’s sort of like the bunion I got scraped off from my left big toe, back in the early aughts, 2003 or so, a lump … [Read more…]