… but I forgot. It’s been that kind of a week, meetings, like the one on Thursday talking about are we going to Fall conferences or what; getting our AFS student registered for school and starting running; grad student problem emails; updating syllabi … wondering what the hell is going on, both weather-wise, and pandemic-related. … [Read more…]
And I’m not sure the one after’s starting any better. Last week started on Tuesday because of the Labor Day holiday, but even though it was a short week I feel like more bad things happened than good. And, I started writing this Saturday and am just now finishing the following Tuesday. It was the … [Read more…]
So on my side of town, we got the most rain on Monday. About three inches here, that all came down between 4:00 and 5:30, and then again between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Resulting in about 30 gallons of water in my basement that I sucked up with the shop vac, and sopped up with … [Read more…]
After all the tomatoes that I picked and processed the last weekend of August, I went a little nuts and got another 25-pound box of tomatoes that I picked up last Friday. Which was after me and Jasper went to the Wednesday market and bought 10 pounds of tomatoes to make two tomato pies for … [Read more…]
OK, it’s November. We’ve had some days with a high of 35° and other days like today where the high was 66°. One of the really cold days was last Tuesday, Halloween. I already posted a bunch of pics of our pumpkins but here they are lit on Halloween night. We got hardly any trick … [Read more…]
I started writing this last Wednesday (it’s Saturday now, actually continued on this Sunday, and it’s Monday now) and it was going to be titled “a week (or so) back from TIFF”. But as usual time has escaped me, so I’m going to work on the last 10 days or so that have gone by … [Read more…]
The saga of my knee continues. I think I told you that the last time I went to PT, the therapist confirmed that the orthotics (prescribed by the 1st PT who was a maternity leave fill-in) didn’t seem to be helping, and I should send them back to get adjusted, and stop wearing them until … [Read more…]
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. End of semester and grading, conferences, trips to Chicago, extra volunteer work …. and any minute now I am going to hear from my CSA farm that the deliveries are about to start and it’s time to start writing recipes. And there’s still some from last year that … [Read more…]
This is my official extending the birthday, post-grading, weekend (I finished on Friday, yay!), so I am aiming to do even less work than last weekend. So far, so good. Saturday we biked to the Farmers’ Market, leisurely, since I planned to skip yoga. We bought A LOT. Cilantro. Sungold tomatoes. A basket of Marzano … [Read more…]
It’s the first day of classes at University of Wisconsin today, and I’m sitting at the kitchen counter still in pajamas, doing a little work email, drinking coffee, and listening to public radio which is full of stories about campus response to Covid, including liability waivers and a few words from a student at UW-Eau … [Read more…]