Author Archives: fustianist

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 →

Sydney and I leave early tomorrow morning for Iowa.  We’ll be having breakfast with my parents in Cedar Rapids by 10:00 tomorrow morning.  I’ll be staying for two weeks, to spend time with family and see my friend Heidi safely … Continue reading →

Since I have trouble looking up into the tops of trees to see birds when Sydney and I go out with our binoculars, we recently bought a CD of bird songs so that we could start memorizing the more common … Continue reading →

Two of our Mennonite friends from our days at Yale paid us a most enjoyable visit over the weekend (though they now hail from Cambridge, England and have become three). On Sunday we went for a hike at one of … Continue reading →