Rough Night

Before

After

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!

Spin Cycle

I had a noisy sort of a pleasant morning. I was up early to study for classes. Just as the sun came up I went for a bike ride. It was cloudy and cool outside. Occasionally I’d look at the wet leaves, the vapor of my breath, and feel like the world had been through the spin cycle of a washing machine. That everything was somehow clean and wet and cold. It’s a sensation I like, actually. How the edges of things were sticking to each other.

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Personal Soundtrack: Sweet Melissa by the Allman Brothers

Segway-Lawncare Hybrid

Somebody has already fused the best of both worlds, here. I saw the prototype in action yesterday. I was in awe, and I laughed until I cried.