I am trying to figure out this retired thing, schedule-wise. I seem to never have time to do the things I thought I’d have more time for, like blog posts and art and food photography and reorganizing the basement. Cooking in general. Exercise. Fixing up the house. Oh, and I want to get another cat. … [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…]
So here it is Saturday again; this time last Saturday I was heading for the Urgent Care. More on that in a minute. People are starting to come back to campus. Monday was my department’s annual faculty & staff retreat, and there’s a lot of moving going on in the neighborhoods where lots of students … [Read more…]
… Actually almost two. Last the week of August 8th was kinda crazy – I took two days sorta off from work, Tuesday was election day and Thursday was my birthday. Sorta off because I worked the polls on Tuesday and then still did some grading in my online class afterward, and even on Thursday … [Read more…]
Oh yea, blueberries and impending trip to Door County. And stuff I’ve cooked and not posted. Looks like I’m just going to have to do another of those posts with lots of pics, and random thoughts that the pictures remind me of. So here goes: On the last Weds. in July, it was my turn … [Read more…]
No, not Led Zeppelin, me and you, dear blog readers, all 2 or 3 of you (I know my brother reads me off & on, same as I read him, and at least one old friend does, and when I link a post on facebook, I think a few more people look and even share, … [Read more…]
On Thursday I got my CSA box and it was loaded with cucumbers, 4 big ones. That night we had sandwiches. I’d made some malted wheat bread, and there was still some sourdough. We had the first really good tomato from Black Earth Valley; they went to the Westside Saturday market July 9, and so … [Read more…]
I feel like I’m forgetting everything I ever knew, and especially how to do all the things I’m supposed to be good at. Getting old and irrelevant, not keeping up. Maybe I’m living in that Billy Collins poem. I know one of the ways I’m feeling not like myself is how little documentation of cooking … [Read more…]
Thursday was the last day of the online students orientation, now an online event, and grades aren’t due until the 16th, so even though I have a ton of grading to do for my internship class (37 students) I decided that I deserve a real weekend. I mean, I have a whole other weekend to … [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…]