After being crazy hot the in mid-August, it’s been cool and rainy for the last week, giving us a preview of September and October. I went looking for a fall picture, remembering the banner below: I thought I might find some nice fall-y food shots, but what I found instead was a whole set of […]
Our AFS student Toni stayed a little longer than the rest of this school year’s students, because her family – mom, dad, and little sister – came to pick her up and now they’re traveling in the US for about 2 weeks. Even though Toni is leaving, we are now entering into a period of […]
It’s 15 years today since my Dad died. I’ve got a glass with a twist of lemon frosting in the freezer, and I have Triscuits and gin, I’ll buy a little spreadin’ cheese to go with, and a yahrzeit candle. Maybe I can find a better online recitation of mourners’ kaddish than the one […]
All day yesterday I planned to go try out a new (to me) yoga class. Rach’s class has always been at 5:45 Tuesdays and so is this class. I got home from work in time to swap bike for car, and make it to the East side for the class. Part of my planning had […]
On Monday at 5:30, I had to do an online lecture for my organization of info class – 33 slides introducing library cataloging rules and record format…. We had an hour, up to an hour 15 allotted, and I planned to burn thru the slides, leaving 15 mins. at the end for a demo of […]
Yesterday morning when I was going through my morning routine in the basement, feeding the cats, scooping litter, dumping the dehumidifier, I noticed water seeping under the partition between the laundry room half of the basement and the furnace room half. A few weeks ago, I had said that probably the next thing to break […]
Today I emptied everything – bucket after bucket (washed out quart yogurt containers and cottage cheese tubs) of veggie broth and chicken stock and pesto and pie cherries and corn and rhubarb puree, ziploc bags of blueberries and peaches and cranberries, a few hunks of meat – a pork roast – a bag of shrimp, […]