In the face of every news item being worse than the last, what is there to do but carry on trying to be normal? Which for me of course is cooking. And going for walks, sometimes to one of my HMO’s clinics to get a shot, like I did on Tuesday morning. After getting back … [Read more…]
I’m starting off a little more political than my usual but promise to wind up with food and grandson pics. After Trump got elected, my two pieces of black humor were: 1) I’m just waiting for planes to start falling out of the sky when everything’s deregulated; 2) I wonder where the Jews are on … [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…]
I haven’t told you about what we’ve been up to since we got back from Denver and there’s been a bit, 2 trips to Chicago, Valentine’s Day, the spring primary election, Jasper coming over, and of course, the return to baking, now that I’m out of the cast. Saturday (Feb 22) was my mom’s and … [Read more…]
We’re visiting the kids in Denver. We scheduled the trip so that we’d be here to help out with the 1-and-three-quarters year-old, because mom is pregnant with grandchild #3 and feeling sick all the time, and their nanny’s on vacation, and dad has to work. But it’s been really easy. We’ve been spending a ton … [Read more…]
We’re about to walk over to UW Hospital to get my cast taken off. Yay! With a little confusion about how it’s all supposed to work. Judging from the app, I’m supposed to go to orthopedics, then to x-ray to get x-rayed, I think in the cast, then to see the Physicians Assistant. Everything’s 30 … [Read more…]
Chicago, that is. We went to the second city to see some culture imported from New York City: Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a jazz big band with 15 permanent members. We got tickets for both Friday and Saturday. Friday was origins of bebop, featuring works by Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Mary … [Read more…]
Because we live in Madison WI, a college town, we get winter break when the students are gone, basically New Year’s to MLK Day, with the town to ourselves. So we try to take advantage of the situation and go places that would otherwise be crowded. There’s a restaurant downtown, Short Stack, that usually has … [Read more…]
… just a little different. We went to see a show as we’ve often done before but at a bar we’d never been to before, Hungry Brain. Kind of a cool place with little tables and some red leather booths and a nice stage. For the first set, they played excerpts of several classical pieces, … [Read more…]
Of course I’m feeling kind of limited by my broken wrist one-handedness, but I’m looking for the upsides. And musing on which is worse, all the time I spent limited by my knee injury that dragged on for like a year and a half, on crutches, off crutches, on crutches again, followed by limited walking, … [Read more…]