I am happy to share here some pictures of the work of Dale Chihuly that is currently on display at the Dallas Arboretum. The fact is that matter how good the pictures, they can’t capture the whole beauty and grandness of seeing these magnificent pieces of glass in person. The sheer amount of glass alone is amazing. Add to that the incredible detail in every piece and I realize that both words and pictures come up short in their abilities…
Today was an awesome fun-filled fall Friday. Weber and I both took a “mental health” day, which translates to he took a personal day off from school and I did not teach my normal Friday knitting class. We have been planning this day for a month or so. Our schedule has been such that we haven’t had any time to just have fun together. Our plan was to go to the Dallas Arboretum to see the Chihuly exhibit. First though,…
1. Cauliflower Mac and Cheese Sometimes you have had a hard day and all you want to eat is some good old-fashioned comfort food. You try to combat these urges by telling yourself, “I will really regret it if I eat a huge plate of cheese fries or a big bowl of mashed potatoes or a whole batch of chocolate chip cookies.” And then, you open the refrigerator and you see two big heads of cauliflower staring at you. They…
It was a dark and stormy night . . . and . . . Oh wait, that is the wrong scary story! Let’s try this again. It was the middle of a sunny but crisp October afternoon, just ten days before our next presidential election. I was at home making chili and butternut squash bread to take to a Halloween party later that evening. Weber had a few errands to run. While he was out, he decided that he would…
The weather front that is supposed to drop our temperatures thirty degrees today is looming in the background. A sky full of gray clouds is heralding its arrival. As I walked home from school today at lunch time, however, it was still quite warm. I passed this tree on my way. For some reason, I found this image beautiful and comforting. It just looks like fall to me even though it doesn’t have all of the wonderful colors of changing…
Wow! It is the 24th of October. Where has the month gone? I know that I have been busy but I didn’t realize that it has been so long since I last posted. One of the things that I have been doing over the last month is taking an online photography course. It has been a great experience – low pressure and I have learned a lot. I will share more on the class in a later post. For now,…
Pencil Case (http://www.jetpens.com/Nomadic-PE-09-Flap-Type-Pencil-Case-Navy/pd/4414) I am a sucker for pens and pencils. I like to have certain writing implements for certain writing tasks. This means that I usually have a selection of such with me – gel pens for journaling (black or blue), purple pens for grading (red is too harsh), highlighters (yellow and green), Tricondaroga pencils (that necessitate their own sharpeners because they are triangular) . . .you get the picture. Then there are the paper clips, sticky notes, thumb…
Anyone who knows us knows that Weber and I are both suckers for God’s furry creatures. We have a particular fondness for strays. We are the ones who share our home with a cat who was plucked off a busy street on a 106 degree day in Dallas and a dog who was scooped up from behind a shopping center on a 17 degree February day. Needless to say, we don’t like to see any animal hot, cold or hungry….
Last week we got new mailboxes at school. Our departmental secretary was responsible for placing our names on all the new boxes. Typing and sticking all of those name tags must have given her an opportunity to think about names, something that i suspect we all do every now and then. To me, names are a rather strange phenomenon. From the time most little girls realize that they can one day have a baby, they have a list of…
There are days and there are weeks when you have to stop and ask yourself what has gone awry in your world. This has been one of those weeks. First of all our “Big Mac” computer sent a love note last week that said, ‘S.M.A.R.T failure imminent.” To my way of thinking, failure never seems smart, but what the hell do I know? As it urned out, the hard drive was having issues and did ultimately fail. Why couldn’t it…