We’ve been home something like 2 days now, it’s Friday morning and we got back Tuesday night, so I’m thinking I better write down a few more thoughts about the trip before I forget. And, now that we’re back, we’re tumbled into fall busy-ness, like the UW-Libraries book sale where I volunteer, and the last … [Read more…]
The Van Gogh show was called poets and lovers and the first two pictures are the poet and the lover, although I don’t recall which is which. The Hockney show was Hockney and Piero (della Fencesca) and it kind of looked back at Hockney’s works and others in the collection, and a show Hockney was … [Read more…]
And to use up local veggies & other ingredients. Recently I feel like I’ve been keeping the fridge emptier, buying smaller amounts, not having too many leftovers, trying out recipes that I’m interested in, making food that pleases me, and Mark will eat. Like that cookbook I have, Small Victories. ‘Course, no CSA this year … [Read more…]
We’re having a bit of a rocky start to the Denver vacation to meet the newest grandchild. First our flight got delayed a bunch. I got a text at about 6:30 AM that the our flight that was supposed to take off at 11:00 was not leaving at 1:48. Atypically we were flying out of … [Read more…]
Once, years ago, when I hadn’t posted anything to my blog in about 2 weeks, my brother called me to make sure I was still alive. We’re getting close to there now. Last week Tuesday we left for vacation – right after I had been up against deadlines, deadlines, deadlines – grading, online graduation, starting … [Read more…]
It’s been the long, lost week that ended with Mother’s Day. I was so busy grading with work work work, emailing students & sites about summer practicums, meetings, other administrivia, and moderating sessions at the Wisconsin Library Association Public Libraries conference that I didn’t take very many walks or bike rides – with the stunning … [Read more…]
Today I’ve been learning more things about Myrtle Beach. For starters, it’s huge. We’re in North Myrtle Beach, that’s the North Carolina end, and it stretches south into South Carolina for something like 60 continuous miles of beach. This morning on my walk I was trying to figure out some flowering shrubby trees. They look … [Read more…]
We’re at Myrtle Beach for a 4-day vacay in February. A.K.A. going someplace warm in the middle of winter. Mark’s brother and his wife got a condo and invited us and other friends and relatives to join them for parts of their stay. Our first morning we went and got coffee in the strip mall, … [Read more…]
We got back at sort of an odd time – early afternoon Saturday. Early, but too late for the farmers market or the strawberry U-Pick at my CSA farm, that I went to last year, and brought two buckets home. And ate them for breakfast, and made jam. I got started cleaning up and doing … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]