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.
Category: Living
LEGO Balls
Took delivery of 40 LEGO balls. They’re precisely the right size and weight for my next project, a Great Ball Contraption.
Izzy’s Ice Cream
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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
Reasoning through Language Arts
It’s Friday. Fridays and Mondays my GED student and I Reason Through Language Arts, layered on ESL.
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.
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.
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.