Jiggity Jig. And now it’s been a week. Our last night in Denver we drove to Boulder to meet up with my cousin (my mother’s younger brother’s son, the ER doc, who’s moved to Denver for kind of a last 5 years of his career job, running a lab at University of Colorado Fort Collins) … [Read more…]
I got my crutches on Tuesday afternoon, so today (Sunday) is my 5th full day with them. I think I’m getting somewhat used to them. My arms & chest are less sore – I think Thursday was the worst night. I’ve gotten out on the crutches a few times. Wednesday I went to work – … [Read more…]
02-22-2022, Mom & Eustace’s actual 97th birthday. We are having a snow day, due to the threatened ice storm. The schools are closed, the food pantry is closed, and I’m going to work from home. So right now am “working” in my PJs – messing around with this blog post for now, and soon, … [Read more…]
This week has been freezing and thawing, up to 45° one day, down to single digits the next. Today, Sunday, has the widest range yet – it was 26° when I got up, 51° in late afternoon, and supposed to get al the way back down to freezing by the time I get up tomorrow. … [Read more…]
Yesterday was my mother’s 16th yahrzeit. She died on July 22, 2004. Since 2017, it’s also been my younger son and his wife’s wedding anniversary. My brother and I observe the occasion by eating and drinking things my mother liked. Crackers and stinky cheese, white wine, broccoli. Some years I recite, or play an online … [Read more…]
I didn’t light any candles, as I have done in the past. I did make sure to eat broccoli and crackers and strong cheese, and drink white wine. When my brother and I exchanged emails about what we each were eating for Oma’s yahrzeit he said, “rye bread and Riesling” and I said, “aged Gouda … [Read more…]
Thanksgiving in Hollywood, 1981, I believe. My brother, me, mom & dad, brother’s then girlfriend Rita. Lovely Rita. SoCal stuff like the diner, and random pink Rambler, that was not ours. I like that we took pictures of the pumpkin pie. I want to make these into a quilt. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled exclude=”3010″]
Last Thursday, the last day of the new online students’ on-campus orientation, I got a big, summer-y CSA box. That’s a few green beans, “silver” and green cucumbers, something like 2 1/3 pounds of tomatoes, bunches of basil and leaf lettuce, an onion two little melons, and 10 ears of corn. After I brought all … [Read more…]
So, my almost daughter in law, Megan, John’s girlfriend, has been living with me for the last two years, while she did her undergrad degree at UW-Madison, and John was in graduate school, getting an MFA in photography at Columbia College in Chicago. They both graduated the same weekend. UW-Madison and Columbia are on pretty … [Read more…]
On Thursday I drove out to the far east side and traded in my old Miele Flamenco for a new one – a Jasper C2. My mom bought me the red Miele when she lived with me, which was from 2000 until she died in 2004, so I estimate it’s at least 14 years old. … [Read more…]