Life’s Good

My breakfast sandwich runneth over at Lake Harriet. Life’s good.

Categorized as Eat

Eye-popping Art

Most Tuesdays I cycle with a friend, often looking for things we’ve not seen before. Our ride, today, included sidewalk art on Downtown’s Nicollet Mall

Categorized as Arts

Desperate Dan

Made a chicken pot pie inspired by comic book character, Desperate Dan. He appeared in a weekly Scottish comic paper, the Dandy, when I was a kid. His favorite meal was cow pie, a steak pie which always featured a pair of cow horns sticking out of the crust.

Categorized as Cook

Should I Open This Envelope?

An envelope, addressed by hand, was waiting for me in our mail box today. Judging by the return address, it contained Covid-19 antibody test results from a clinical lab affiliated with the University of Minnesota. I found myself wondering if I should even open the envelope. I try to be disciplined about this kind of…… Continue reading Should I Open This Envelope?

Categorized as Covid-19

Storm

Couldn’t out-pedal this storm.

Categorized as Summer

Spiral For Justice

Cycled to black history points of interest in St. Paul I’d plotted on a map. The 46 elements of Spiral For Justice represent the 46 years of Roy Wilkins’ leadership of the NAACP. The walls depict efforts to impede progress to racial justice

In Pursuit of a Better Design

How I spent my Sunday afternoon. I keep taking things apart in my quest for a better design. One day, some variant of all this will be one machine… or not.

Categorized as LEGO

Part Reduction

Eliminated parts from my current LEGO Technic project. I’m going for minimal.

Categorized as LEGO