It’s going to be a white Thanksgiving.
Category: Living
Warm Places
Accidental shot, Minneapolis, on my way to The Dakota, for Sharon Isbin, Romero Lubambo, Spain, Brazil, warm places.
Brief Green Patches
Patches of green making a brief appearance in our yard.
An Old Lady with Attitude
What is this? Surely it’s not a hat.I came across this while reorganizing our kitchen drawers. It’s a tea cozy, designed to keep a teapot warm.It was 1999. I was in Glasgow, Scotland, visiting my elderly aunt. Her elegantly dressed, equally ancient neighbor presented me with the tea cozy she had knitted.The neighbor giggled as…… Continue reading An Old Lady with Attitude
Naughty Knitting
Posted about an old lady who knitted something a bit too personal for her apartment manager.
Playing With a Soldering Iron
Created a traffic light construction kit and soldered parts. Decided 6-year-old + 7-year-old + soldering iron = bad idea.
Mincemeat
Walked to Lunds, downtown Minneapolis, and made my annual mincemeat purchase.
Worth the Cold Walk
It wasn’t too cold to walk over to The Kenwood for dinner.
Minimizing Packaging
Filled up with dish and hand soap at Linden Hills Coop. Wish I could do the same with wine at the liquor store.
Dreaming of Kyushu
This winter I’ll be back in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. I will have visited Kyushu three years in a row: 2013, 2014, and 2015. I go back for the gentle subtropical climate while Minnesota’s long winter refuses to budge. Kyushu is a manageable size, about one-sixth the area of Minnesota or…… Continue reading Dreaming of Kyushu