Enjoy this fun winter song from A Prairie Home Companion‘s Feb 9th show. [I tried to embed it but it wouldn't behave.]
I’m pretty sure what I’ll be doing today. It involves a lot of grumbling and procrastination and small fits; I’ll be grading rough drafts of papers. Why today and not tomorrow? Because if I get all the misery done tonight my whole weekend is FREE! No running errands. No meetings. No major housework. I can […]
Wow. I was down for the count since the 1st with the lovely gift of the yucks. I don’t recommend it. What’s still on the nightstand The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan What’s outside What’s going on […]
I don’t know what to do with myself. I can read or listen to anything other than what is on my list! I just started the heel flap for the second sock of this pair. I had first sock syndrome and it took me forever to finish the first one. However, now I decided to […]
So, yes, the other day I did hunker down and read Dave Fearless and the Cave of Mystery by Roy Rockwood on Project Gutenberg. It was a very cute adventure tale for kids. This book was the 3rd in the Dave Fearless series. From what I saw on Goodreads, there seem to be at least […]
I was hopping around on the web this morning and ended up on Project Gutenberg. One of the “new” books listed was Dave Fearless and the Cave of Mystery–written in 1918 by Roy Rockwood. This is one in a series of Dave Fearless books “for boys” because, obviously, girls would never be interested in this […]
Greetings from the cold, white north! Technically it isn’t really white. We’ve got maybe an inch, but we need significantly more snow or serious rain to refill the water level depleted by the long drought last summer. But it is cold! It is 4 degrees and the wind chill is -11. Boy, howdy. I don’t […]
Since I’m not one of those girls who is naturally gifted with awesome in the kitchen, I like it when I have no recipe yet come up with something I’d like to have a second time. So, hold on to your hats, folks. I promise that the bumpy ride is worth the trip! Ingredients two […]
Today is the day where I officially begin having tons of work again–break is over. How I wish it could go on forever… But, that said, it is a perfectly lovely day for hot cocoa! Yesterday evening began with freezing rain that turned to snow. Aren’t I lucky to work from home? No braving that […]
Hooray! My Knit Picks box came today. I’m so excited… Yarn: Needles: Miscellaneous Whatnots: Guess what I’ll be doing this afternoon?
