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The university email system has been down since Sunday morning.  After spending lunch with a number of administrators, I can see that they are absolutely at a loss for things to do at work without it.  Me, I’m not terribly … Continue reading →

Our housemate, Christi, recently got six chickens, so now this is a house of 3 cats (all confined to the house), 6 chickens (which roam the yard in the day), and 3 people. I am the only one of the … Continue reading →

It continues to be a scorcher in these parts, with today’s high at 94 degrees.  To take a break from oozing into the couch cushions, Sydney and I went to campus, where the coolest spot I found happened to be … Continue reading →

It’s currently 90 degrees, a temperature we’ve seen every day for the last few days, and the forecast shows the temperature will only go up this coming week.  Gross.  Neither Sydney nor I is a hot-weather kind of person, so … Continue reading →

I was trying to be really on-the-ball this year and had my taxes done before March, since I didn’t want to be doing taxes when Sydney got home from England. Cornell, however, had other plans for me, and sent me … Continue reading →

I just got back from my visit to Iowa, where I saw my best friend from high school get married.  Way to go, Heidi and Mark! Erin

Now that I’m home from Iowa and the conference is over, I can finally turn my attention back to the garden. It needs it. Today I decided to empty the coldframe. At least almost. I transplanted sixty tomato plants of … Continue reading →

This morning we dropped Sydney off at the airport so that he could return to Ithaca.  He made it in safely later this afternoon, and has been kept busy laying in the groceries, petting the cat, and setting house and … Continue reading →

The weather hasn’t improved since our arrival here, but that hasn’t kept us from getting outside. We’ve gone hiking at two parks and Erin and I have biked a good twenty miles in the last couple of days. There are … Continue reading →

We’re enjoying a beautiful day in Iowa — sunny, dry air, and temperatures in the 60s. We arrived here half an hour late after having to switch planes in Detroit because the plane we were on initially wasn’t in shape … Continue reading →