Category: Living

Dyson Shrine

Created a Dyson shrine and installed Elfa shelving in the laundry. This space is close to the front door, hence the shoes.

Indoor Cycle

Most people were at work, a good opportunity to try out our building’s fitness room for the first time. Worked up quite a sweat cycling snowy trails in the Swiss Alps while reading a novel.

Categorized as Move

Closet Lighting

Installed LED tape lighting in our coat closet around the interior door frame. I can change the color but Dwight prefers I keep it at 2700° Kelvin.

Categorized as DIY

Head House

On my chilly walk, warmed up in the former Milwaukee Road Depot, now the Minneapolis Renaissance Hotel. The head house is now an event space: chimneys which vented smoke from locomotives evoke an earlier time.

Categorized as Living

Three-Morning Walk

Completed a three-morning walk along University Avenue (connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul) with a friend, pausing at architecturally interesting buildings. Today, our walk along “Asian Main Street” included wonderful Vietnamese pastries.

Hiking above Palm Springs

In early December we spent a week in Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley in California’s desert southwest. It was still low season, but temperatures were pleasant (60’s and 70’s Fahrenheit). In January, the population of the valley is about 800,000. By June, the population drops to around 200,000 as temperatures soar into the low…… Continue reading Hiking above Palm Springs

Remembering My Dad

Winnowed down our worldly goods, enough for two carloads for Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity. Dwight inadvertently put this scarf on the Goodwill pile, but I rescued it. My dad wore it while serving in the Home Guard during World War II.