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…]
Somehow last week got kinda busy. Monday and Tuesday weren’t so bad, and I told you about them the last post. The rest of the week was the problem – three days in a row with all-day things, Wednesday Jasper, Thursday the state library conference, and Friday we went to Chicago for the symphony. Followed … [Read more…]
This is a real catch up one – it’s Wednesday actually editing and adding on Thursday, and I haven’t posted since Monday a week ago. I think the key elements of my life the past 10 days are babies, kittens and human. Also the Friends of UW-Libraries book sale, one of my volunteer gigs, and … [Read more…]
Or most of the rest, I guess – we’re still here until tomorrow. I’ve been a little better about taking pictures, but not writing so I think this will be a bit long! I’ll try to go chronologically so you can skip around. On Sunday after Mark walked and I iced my hand, we got … [Read more…]
Friday was the last day of classes. It was a Jasper-care day for me, doing some grading and catching up on email while he napped. The kids let me off early because I had to drive down to campus to run the iSchool student awards ceremony, a hybrid event, decoupled from the graduation ceremony for … [Read more…]
Google remembers the dearly departed Alan Rickman. Google Doodle, April 30, 2023 Kind of nice to commemorate a day when he had a career success in the theater, rather than death day, or even birthday. What a week – the electricians are here, curing the knob & tube – essentially rewiring the entire house – … [Read more…]
The featured image shows my Monday morning when I was resisting doing my non-weight-bearing exercises – but I did finally get moving and felt better for it. Tuesday was a Jasper day and we had some fun but he was a little unsettled and I probably am not hipped enough into his, as Al said, … [Read more…]
I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 on Monday and didn’t get logged on to my work computer until almost 11:00. This week in my crutch weaning program, I’m at no crutches in the house and starting short walks of about 5-10 minutes w/o crutches OK on Tuesday. I was going to go back … [Read more…]
Friday we went to Chicago to see the symphony and have dinner with John & Megan. I’m still on crutches for walking outdoors, even though I don’t need them in the house right now, so we took a lot of Lyfts. I thought we might take the L more, but everyone’s saying it’s filthy and … [Read more…]
And trip to Chicago on crutches. Sunday we went to Chicago to see The Factotum, a modern opera that’s sort of the Barber of Seville, set in a Southside Chicago barbershop. One of the main artists who created it is Will Liverman, who sang adult Charles in Fire Shut Up In My Bones, that we … [Read more…]