Happiness for the holiday weekend is discovering that Goodwill is open 8:30 to 5:00 on Monday – so I don’t have to do my dirty job for the weekend, sorting clothes to be bagged to go to Goodwill, today, Saturday. I can put it off until tomorrow, and continue puttering, making tomato sauce, and cutting […]
On Sunday night, I made a plum cake with the little plums I got at the Farmers Market. I took it to work on my bike on Monday, for an all day meeting. There was some left and I had another slice for breakfast at work on Tuesday. I think it only has about 250 […]
I had a pretty good Mother’s Day. The only one of my kids who was here was my “daughter in law”, John’s girlfriend, Megan. But both John and Al called, and my first foster daughter, Kaylah, posted a really nice mom’s day message on Facebook. I worked till about 9:30 on Saturday night, grading in […]
Our first night we had sammiches for supper – bread and Nueske’s smoked turkey from the fancy grocery store in Fish Creek, tomatoes & cucumbers from my CSA box, brought from home – then we watched Gosford Park on VHS tape. Thursday morning we weren’t sure of the weather, so we went out seeking coffee […]
Years ago there was a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about not just seize the day, seize the day and throttle it. I don’t think it’s this one is exactly – rather than Calvin in the tub, I think it had Hobbes all tattered & torn. I went to the Willy Street Fair on Sunday morning, […]
I made a “bespoke” brunch this morning – that is, some friends wanted me to cook for their friends, so I worked with them to come up with a menu, and they did the invites. I like doing this kind of pre-ordered event – I get to work with the people to come up with […]
Initially, because I got a musk melon instead of watermelon in my CSA box – and the farmers I buy from, Tipi Produce, grow really good watermelons. But they sell to Willy Street, too, so I bought a chunk of one of their watermelons at the co-op and it’s in the fridge waiting to be […]
I’ve been biking to work and going past a lot of bloomy stuff. This tree is by the veterinary school, by one of my favorite bike path sections, where you go past a couple of greenhouses, then there’s this field that’s behind the large animal veterinary building. There are usually a lot of architectural scraps […]