Lorelei came out to visit this weekend, for a break from the monotony of her four walls (though with the train running along the ceiling, I can't imagine those walls getting all THAT monotonous...) and to focus some productiveness energy on various projects.  Hers are garb-ish, for Pennsic, mine are house-ish, and years overdue.  I'm happy to say ( Read more... )

As always, in no particular order or significance:

Simple Day was this past weekend.  It was hot.  HOT HOT HOT hot hot.  Miserable hot.  Got unusally (for me) cranky with people, so if I snarked in your general direction, I apologize.

Non-cranky Highlights:

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Had a great weekend out of town with my sister and her pookie-luv-muffin.  No, he's not that gooey.  But they are that cute.  And he's a great cook.  So I went straight from work to the airport on Friday, and then dragged my butt out of bed at 5am this morning, to catch a 7am flight home and go straight from the airport to work.  Eeep.  But it's ( Read more... )

Grinnnnnnn - that was fun!

Z---  is working on a calendar project, and drove out to my place to shoot two subjects.  We found GREAT places for them in my favorite garden (Indianapolis Art Museum) and spent the rest of the time schmoozing and playing with the kids.  The weather was almost perfect - good temperature, not too windy, overcast so we ( Read more... )

At 7:59am today, my friends S&S welcomed their first child into the world!

Annaliese Larrain Cohen

Many blessings for the happy threesome  :-)

And of course, the proud Papa already has pictures up on Facebook!!

Saturday was Musica Subterranea's 12th annual gig at Ceilidh in Ohio, courtesy of the lovely dance-happy folks of the College of St Joan and our friend and Dance Master Gus (thank you Gus!!).  This year it's in conjunction with the Barony of Flaming Griffon (issues with sites and borders, fortunately solved by cooperative groups getting creative ( Read more... )

Spent most of the weekend doing garden-y stuff - yay!  I'd been resisting for a while, in part due to post-appendicitis restrictions (10-lb lifting limit), but those were done in mid-April, and Dr Haag (grant him many blessed years) said I could go back to full landscaping and hauling bags of dirt in May.  Then I was resisting because it's such a ( Read more... )

Yup, it's chronic.  So I'm following Zsof's advice, covering the last three months in a whirlwind of bullet points, and moving on with the speed of life  ;-)

( My calendar has become a blivit. Observe: )