Seniors Tuesdays

On Tuesdays seniors get a 20% discount at Coastal Seafoods, probably the best seafood store in the Cities. I got to see their spiffy new digs for the first time and save on a nice piece of King Salmon which they deboned for me.

Categorized as Cook

LEGO Balls

Took delivery of 40 LEGO balls. They’re precisely the right size and weight for my next project, a Great Ball Contraption.

Categorized as LEGO

Izzy’s Ice Cream

This week I bought our final Saturday evening ice cream treats from Izzy’s ice cream store just down the road from where we live. Covid-19, and the uncertainties it’s bringing, gate-crashed the business model; the store is closing. Ice cream in a time of Covid. The server slides my online order through the freezer case…… Continue reading Izzy’s Ice Cream

Lake Harriet Pit Stop

Our Wednesday tradition: cycle to the Chain of Lakes, stop at Lake Harriet for a breakfast sandwich and coffee, continue along the Minnehaha Creek, then up the Mississippi to home.

Categorized as Eat, Cycle

Casket Arts

It’s Tuesday, so cycled with a friend in search of things we’ve never seen before. The grounds of the Casket Arts Community are always a good bet. This is a base for over 140 artists and art businesses. In 1882 the Northwestern Casket Company made caskets.

Categorized as Arts

Rebuilding

Cycled through an area where the community is lifting itself up from the destruction during the riots in May.

Floating

Sunday afternoon, recumbent on a sofa, a novel, a nap, under a silent speaker floating on the ceiling.

LEGO Teardown

Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown.

Categorized as LEGO