Saturday Jessica and I went down to Pepin, WI. A friend of Jessica's (julnar) and a coworker of this friend were coming up from Madison to visit the town of the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pepin's only about an hour away, so it was a nice out-of-town trip for us to take ( Read more... )

Now that the kitchen is done and all the boxes have been put away, allow me to present la Maison des Miller dans le Wisconsin!

Edit: In case one hasn't read previous posts, we didn't buy the place, we're only renting.

( A dozen or so photos )

I've been living in Eau Claire for the past two days now. We've been very busy.

A week ago I had an interview for a job with CTL, which I described in my previous post, in a town near Eau Claire. I went up two Sunday nights ago and stayed at the home of Johannes and Marie-France Strohschank, the head of the foreign language department at UWEC and his wife, who also teaches in the department. When Jessica and I first visited ( Read more... )

Sunday was the first of two band concerts this semester. Once again it was with the orchestra and once again the band played second. I really don't like this because we band members get our instruments ready in the rehearsal room, then watch the orchestra play. Right before the last song the band members retire to the rehearsal room and get our ( Read more... )