Monday morning in Chicago, Mark & I got up and headed to a nearby Starbucks to give our girl the first crack at the bathroom – her toilette is much more complex than Mark’s or mine. We got packed and checked all the bags at the hotel, then headed to Art Institute to work up [...]
Everybody’s doing their annual April Fool jokes, but we are in Chicago enjoying ourselves, no foolin’, and my over-earnest style doesn’t really lend itself too handily to April Fool pranks. Google’s got Nascar, the first time I went there this a.m. it even said “I’m steering Lucky“; I expect TidBits will do something tomorrow when [...]
And whole wheat cimmy buns for Saturday breakfast. Last night, I had an online class meeting for one of my courses, so I just made some egg salad and we had lots of bread – whole wheat baguette that I made, plus a loaf I brought home from a French bakery here in Madison, that [...]
And a coconut cake that crumbled, and a green salad with little tomatoes, that Jean brought. That’s what we ate with the neighbors tonight. The lasagna had that pureed tomato sauce, that I make with my home-frozen tomatoes. Tuesday, I made a big batch with the last 4 bags of tomatoes from last summer (after [...]
We went to see a musical production of Daddy Long Legs, the one by Jean Webster, the title notes in the library catalog say: An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as “Daddy-Long-Legs” are the two principals in this immensely popular [...]
On Friday night I tried to make pasta sauce – bacon, celery, onions, and tomatoes frozen from last summer. And a splash of wine left from the party last week. After I put in the wine, the sauce got a funny smell – like plastic. I think it was the wine – Mark thought it [...]
I was worried about this bread when I took it out of the oven – it seemed spongey rather than crusty, and I was afraid, because of the hot weather, that it would be like a sour dough loaf I baked last fall, on a hot day, that came out big and overblown and white. [...]
It’s still “unseasonably warm” here is WI – it was 81° today, ad it’s still in the high 60s at almost 10 p.m. In the morning, Rach and I walked, and because I thought my first advising appointment was by Skype, I figured I’d just do it at home. But when I got on and [...]
Since the winter dinners at School Woods have not been selling – no winter – and because her fiancé is in town, Rach and I hijacked one of the dates, and threw a cocktail party. There was a really nice crowd, somewheres above 30 people plus a lot of little kids toddling and crawling and [...]
It’s not just winter that’s been cancelled here in Wisconsin, evidently spring has been cancelled, as well. We have gone directly from mild snow-less winter to summer heat. We are in the midst what is looking like a 2-week stretch of day time high temps in the 70s and 80s, and only going into the [...]
