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Sleep – and weekends, and now it’s Monday again

Sometimes I think the worst part about getting old is not being able to sleep. My normal pattern for the last few years, since I’ve been over 55, has been waking up every two or three hours – on a really good night it’s four hours; once in a long while  I’ll sleep five hours […]

Toni’s Dad’s Pics of me & Mark

At least Mark looks good … man, I hate getting my picture taken.

Oh, so lazy Memorial Day weekend, 2

Sunday: Trying to be lazy is not working quite as well today. I got out of bed at 6:45 & came downstairs, thinking I’d start the cimmy buns rising and crash on the couch in the sunroom with the cats. I fed them, but they were restless, clawing the blinds and the rug, and the […]

Graduation weekend

  It was a weekend of graduations. On Saturday, I made a dinner for my upstairs renter at the supper club house, who got her PhD in a convocation Friday evening. The menu was: light apps – goat cheese, red pepper, olive & pesto torta, with long rise baguettes, and crackers and peppadews; salami; nuts […]

John’s new ankle

So we’re in the recovery room after John’s surgery to fix the break in his ankle. Even laid up in bed, his photo of the photo of the pins in his leg is better than mine. Can’t wait to take him home.

#1 Son

John updated his website, and one of his shots reminded me of something.

Cooking with whatever’s at hand

On Monday when we got back from Ohio, I made a pasta with the cooked broccoli that was sitting in the fridge, a piece of butternut squash that I cubed and roasted, and some of the oven dried tomatoes – the container that had the drier ones that I did not freeze. And the ends […]

Busy week, Lazy weekend

Monday I think I just came home after work (must’ve, because I was writing about the Packers), but Tuesday I went to yoga. Wednesday we had an outing to Milwaukee to see a photography exhibition, and hear Alec Soth. The show was good, portraits from the Haggerty Museum’s collections, Soth was a good speaker, and […]