It was time to spend a Saturday doing something other than Work on the House. So, we jumped in the plane (at the crack of noon) and headed to Cheyenne. Although a brownish haze blanketed the entire area, it was a good day to look around at the landscape of northern Colorado. The snow brings [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Uplift
Posted in travel, tagged airplane, Colorado, mountains, travel on February 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Dumbbell in a donut
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged school, science on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back in 11th grade, I found chemistry to be one of the most boring and dumb classes ever. My teacher, Mrs. Young, was trying to exceed the standards for NY public school students and give us a leg up on future science education, but I was, unfortunately, seated amongst other students who were much more [...]
Elderly Animals
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dogs on February 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Oh, sniff. Some professional photographer did a project on elderly animals, and I was just on her website looking at her photos and the short documentary about her work. Joda isn’t quite as old as some of the animals in Leshko’s portfolio, but of course I was thinking about her as I looked at the [...]
Yo-yo
Posted in Home, tagged Home, library on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Moving: the past few weeks have been a series of ups and downs. We were excited to get into the new house! The old house has to be cleaned. Oh, and the new house has to be cleaned, too. I had a snow day the day after we finished with the old house and got [...]
Neighborhood
Posted in Home, tagged dogs, Home on February 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Walks with Joda can be fairly slow these days, so I usually take my i-Pod and listen to podcasts. We’re in a new neighborhood now, with new sights (and smells), so the slow walks are a little less boring.There’s this Le Corbusier knock-off that goes with the mailbox above, around the corner from our house. [...]
Lazily
Posted in Home, tagged Home on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The big snow storm seems to be petering out, but large fluffy flakes are still lazily swirling about.Meanwhile, we are inside, comfortable and warm from the fire that is lazily burning in the stove.There are places to go and work to be done, but for now, I am lazily reading my book and sipping a [...]
The newest Vella
Posted in Home, tagged family on February 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I have a new niece! Kayli Kathryn was born on January 31st. By my reckoning, she is the first girl baby in the family since 1970 (that would be me). Welcome to the family, Kayli! I can’t wait to meet you.
