I have not been fit company for fan nor beast the last month or so, so I've largely been hunkered down trying to write or working in the garden. I did have a very nice break from my doldrums when the dwinn and I went to Chicago for a much-needed getaway ( Read more... )

While I am enjoying the heatwave, it's put the kibosh on gardening for the last week or so, and I'm getting positively twitchy. But recently I got the stepping stones around the hose all set in place, the rock garden has a new tenant (also, compare the rock garden now to 2006), and the first bellflower has bloomed. The rest of the recent garden ( Read more... )

We're back. Vacation was loverly, though I have been informed that I am no longer allowed to bitch about cold-weather locale choices, as it ended up being in the 80s the entire we were up there. Go figure.

There may be a travelogue to come, but given my track record on ever finishing those up, the highlights: Time with the dwinn, lovely scenery, The ( Read more... )

Am off on vacation until Friday. We're heading up to Copper Harbor, pretty much as far north as you can get in Michigan before falling into Lake Superior. Where it will be COLD, dammit. I have declared to the dwinn that we are going somewhere warm next year, by MY definition of warm (75 ( Read more... )

One of which is not yelling up the stairs at the dwinn, "Come down here and look at this and tell me if you think I need stitches ( Read more... )

With snow now on the ground, I finally broke open the tin of Ginseng Green Chai that I've been hoarding since I bought it at Tealuxe in Boston this summer. They had it as part of their iced tea selection one day when nandamai took me there, and ohmigod so good. I knew the tin I bought wouldn't last me terribly long, so I've put off opening it. On a ( Read more... )

( Live from Wiscon: The trip out )