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This evening Sydney took a look at the dinner I’d made and said “Outside.”  He strung up the hammock while I finished up the salads and carried the plates outside.  I set the plates down on a bench and immediately … Continue reading →

After three years of living with a vegetarian (and eating mostly vegetarian myself), I finally got a salad spinner.  Good thing, since the only remaining head of lettuce in the garden (before the next crop comes up) is roughly 18 … Continue reading →

I dropped by the grocery store this morning to stock up for our upcoming trip to Nova Scotia.  Among the goodies were a couple of bars of chocolate.  When I got home this afternoon I was pleased to see that … Continue reading →

My department seems to be doing its best to make me a good candidate for teaching positions when I start applying for jobs.  In my first year of teaching I was one of three grad students to teach sections of … Continue reading →

It’s been nice and quiet this morning while I was hard at work on my prospectus and paper that are due shortly. I just found out why:

There is time enough for every thing, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time … … Continue reading →

For the past week or so Sydney and I have been foiled in our attempts to get the garden in order; we’d hoped to get things tidied up before we head to Nova Scotia and let it all run wild … Continue reading →

It’s been a great morning, and this despite not getting a lick of work done. I woke up to the desire to scrub down my kitchen.  I don’t ask why or whether it makes sense when this happens; I just … Continue reading →

Cornell’s been working through a massive email outage that started on Sunday and has continued, for some, up through today.  The funny thing is, most of the email servers are up and running–and have been for days.  There were three … Continue reading →

I suppose Iowans will be glad that the storm moved on. Here’s our lawn today: