I’m in Denver where it’s about 10°. Back home in Madison it’s -10°. And in Minneapolis it was also about -10° this afternoon and they’re marching in the streets. We’re here visiting the grandkids. Here’s Callan, the newest one. Jasper at about the same age when I first started doing granny daycare at his house. … [Read more…]
Last year we had about two weeks of winter, in January. This year we had a little more wintry weather, but no snow until February, and I couldn’t even help shovel because of my wrist. Which is healing, but slower than I’d like. And it was really just one snow, which came the Wednesday before … [Read more…]
And now it’s really cold. And I’m behind because it’s already the next week, and I have travel to tell you about. I’ll get on that Real Soon Now. Anyways, the weather prediction was for 8 inches of heavy wet snow on Tuesday, so on Monday evening they decided to close school. Then things were … [Read more…]
Tuesday was a snow day – but as often happens the MMSD panicked and called off school and seems like we’re only going to get about 4 inches of slush by the end of the day, not the raging blizzard they feared. Plus right now it’s not even good snow to play in. But that’s … [Read more…]
The February March is an old record by Lou & Peter Berryman, and the title track has lyrics like: “I tell you we’re all gettin’ weary of little SiberiaJeepers enough is enoughI tell you uh-huh I’m okay when it’s 80 in MayBut uh-uh when it’s zero and dark” But that’s what winters used to be … [Read more…]
This week I’m specializing in eating the stuff that nobody else wants. Like Thursday, I made open face cheese-y melt-y things and leftover soup for dinner. We had two soups, some cream of turkey with wild rice soup, and some butternut squash chili. Mark and Maja both opted for the turkey-wild rice, so I had … [Read more…]
Oh January. It’s cold, the news is awful, and I’m having a hard time NOT feeling like things are getting worse than ever, as well as personally losing it, lowering my standards. I spent this back to work week feeling like I was hardly working; rather than updating syllabi and getting my online classes up … [Read more…]
Here we are in the grinding down part of the winter and in the middle of a Wisconsin cold snap. I’m waiting for my second vaccine shot next week, and the impeachment of the orange insurrectionist starts today. Waiting I think is the key feeling, and lonely and stuck. I miss my kids, I miss … [Read more…]
So here we are again, another Sunday. Another week of plugged into online meetings all day – and sometimes in the evening too – and not doing much of anything creative, except maybe cooking dinner. And not taking very many pics of food or anything. Like today, I planned to make some more masks with … [Read more…]
So, I feel like I haven’t been recording the things on my blog that I normally do. I mean, in theory my tagline is “reflections on life & food”, so I like to write about what I’ve been watching and reading and cooking and eating. But it’s winter and it’s too dark to take pictures … [Read more…]