We both love soup (a hilarious line from “Best in Show) so we’re attending a winter soup (demonstration) cooking class this evening
Category: Living
Snow Falling, Fresh Footprints
Snow falling, making fresh footprints. Walk and chat with a friend up one side of Mississippi and down the other.
Sunny Walk to Library
Sunny winter’s day. Walked to library, Downtown.
Planning Hikes
Today, worked on shortlist of places to hike. Used Google, Google Earth, Garmin MapSource, Evernote, and a paper map.
Hacked Board
Hacked garage door opener controller board. The heavy duty soldering iron didn’t fry the board, and the hack worked.
Cajun Hashbrowns
At French Meadow Bakery/Cafe today, waiting for Cajun hashbrowns: the meal fortified me for a 4-hour business meeting.
Cold Walls
Thrill du jour: temperature inside our exterior walls right now. It has been a quiet day.
Preventing Frozen Pipes
Installed sensor to control pipe temperature when it’s really cold outside. It should prevent another frozen pipe.
Too Cold for School
Today it was too cold for the schools to open, but not too cold for nephew C. to snowboard.
Frozen Lakes and Lost Places
Frozen Lake of the Isles, MinneapolisKilauea caldera, Hawaii Big Island”Why do you live in Minnesota?–The winters are too cold. You should move.”I hear this from a person who brought up a family in a Minneapolis suburb. When her husband retired, they moved to a new subdivision in the Arizona desert. There is no good response…… Continue reading Frozen Lakes and Lost Places