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Flying apart at the seams

“It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” -   Mark Twain cooking …  spinning No… wait… spring cleaning … the chickens … going for a hike Or… knitting … I know… get a new cat There is… this [...]

Switched Web Hosts

We dropped our host and went with another company… I hope this will solve the problem of this site being frequently inaccessable.

Avoidance

Today I made a conscious and deliberate effort to avoid a human dressed as a giant droplet of blood. The Red Cross is having their blood drive on campus, and this costumed human was cavorting around outside the Memorial Union building, presumably drawing attention to the cause. I was heading out the door, saw him [...]

All the Whos down in Whoville

At 7:30 this morning, our power went out. It’s amazing how quiet it gets when there’s no electricity… I sometimes wonder what that constant hum is doing to us. Anyway, I was a little nervous because we’re having company today and I had a little cooking and baking to do. I calmed myself by realizing [...]

Day without a (disposable) bag, tomorrow

The other day, I wrote a post about A Day Without a Bag, the Heal the Bay-sponsored event in Los Angeles taking place on Thursday, December 18th. In support of the idea, I suggested we participate from afar. (Plus I have some readers in Los Angeles.) Looks like it’s going to be easy here in [...]

A Day Without a Bag — we can do this too

Heal the Bay down in Los Angeles county is coordinating their second annual Day Without a Bag event on December 18th. The event itself is only for LA county, but I decided to pilfer the idea and let you all know about it too. Can you go one full day without using a disposable bag? [...]

Aaaaand… we’re back!

For the last three days, I thought our ISP web host had totally killed our site. Some migration failure on their part & they were none too quick with a response, either. Good times.

Wordless Wednesday: Everybody Polka!

Wordless Wednesday

Horizon

I was looking through Jeff’s photos today because I needed an underwater shot for a work-related blog. I was struck by this image and asked him if I could post it here. He said he fell in love with shooting in black and white on this particular trip to Mexico, and this shot right here… [...]

Room with a View

Several weeks ago we headed up to Portland for a weekend. I’d gotten tickets to see David Sedaris at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and since it had been a while since Mr. Wolf had gotten solid time away from work, we decided to make it a nice long weekend away from home. We stayed [...]