Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers lays (sic.) on the field during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff game against the New York Giants Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Green Bay. The Giants won 37-20. A sign in front of Madison’s Labor Temple announced the status of an effort to recall Gov. Scott […]
Here’s what it looked like at the Recall Rally this afternoon, filmed with my new teeny camera: Approaching the square, about 1:00 – speechifying already started Walking around the top side of the square a few minutes later Here are a few pictures: And of course I’ll stick the new teeny camera in my pocket […]
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, […]
Last Saturday, the asparagus was in at the farmers’ market. I bought two pounds, and I also bought a chicken from Matt Smith. I roasted the chicken in the oven on timer while I went to the protests. A couple days later, I roasted the asparagus, too, and we ate one pound of it as […]
Mark & Ethan are off looking at colleges, Northeastern & George Washington. Not sure what their Saturday night plans are; tomorrow they’re taking the train from Boston to DC. So I’m on my own. This morning I braved the rain and cold and went to the first farmers’ market; bought some potatoes from Matt – […]
I woke up with a sore throat and headache and decided to call in sick, and stay in bed. The staying felt great – I dozed and read with both cats holding me down. And I’m sure the cats loved it too – the heat was on even in the middle of the day, and […]
Here I am at work on the first day of spring break. I have a stack of applications to read, next year’s class of library school students, plus I have an assignment handed in in one of my online classes – applying subject headings to a record (description of an information resource) that the students […]
Andy Kraushaar’s panorama My iPhone picture of one of the tractor drivers taking his own iPhone pictures – video of the crowd John’s online polaroids of the crowd
So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin. On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat […]
Or, as one of my librarian colleagues calls it, “my new second job.” The city of Madison is still pleased with our Midwestern polite behavior. I made cookies again, oatmeal raison, and I added chocolate chips, using the recipe from under the lid of the box of Quaker Quick Oats that I inherited from Al […]