This Time Last Year

Glass Factory Tour in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The Pumpkin Next Door

If Sponge Bob and a Zombie were to have a Pumpkin Love-Child...

Blackberry Morning

I was standing in my kitchen this morning, checking my work email inbox from a hand-held Blackberry. N asleep upstairs, the cats purring at me, my feet in socks and slippers, NPR playing on the radio, the smell of coffee thick in the cold, morning air.

I had a moment of imagining the late 80s - early 90s  version of myself looking at this scene with a sense of awe and a lot of questions.

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Personal Soundtrack: Extraordinary by Liz Phair

Prescott Park

About three years ago I was part of a group of parents who dreamed up the idea for an Outdoor Classroom for Prescott School that would benefit teachers, kids, and the neighborhood. Yesterday morning was one of a series of work-days for the park. We spent about four hours working and, when you crunch the numbers, our time accomplished the following:

• 75+ volunteers engaged
• 62 shovels present
• 7 wheelbarrows in steady use
• 3.5 yd3 of clay soil moved, by wheelbarrow, to 2 large planter boxes
• 8 yd3 of mulch distributed to garden beds and walking paths
• 78 prairie plants planted
• 3 yd3 of sand levelled into a bed
• 146 tree cut outs set in the sandbed and QuickCrete-d
• 62 chocolate chip cookies consumed
• 2 blisters on my hands worn through the gardening gloves

Sigh. It was a good morning.

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Dinner Line-up: Zucchini Frittata and baked potatoes (N's cooking)

Looking Forward To: Fright Night @ Morrill Hall 

So Long As We're Counting: Congratulations to my friend, Matt, who completed a cross trainer workout of 40 miles in 4 hours, 12 min, and 1 second. He defeated 700 aliens & saved New York...again. Well done!