Weeks with meetings are always a juggling act. Getting three people out the door in the morning, all with the accompanying equipment and weaponry necessary to their respective quests, is exciting at the best of times. Add meeting prep and the additional Things That Must Be Remembered for them and it becomes downright thrilling. On…
“Monday mornin’, it was all I hoped it would be”
(With profound apologies to The Mamas & The Papas!) I do actually like Mondays. I am aware that I may be alone in this. I’m cool with that. On Mondays, John goes to work, Katherine goes to school and I get that oasis of clear thinking that sets me up for the week. I put…
Impermanence
I had several posts figured out, one of which I planned to write tonight. Unfortunately, on the way home from a marvelous afternoon of skiing, I stopped and snapped this photo of the sun setting across a field of snow and all other thoughts went out of my head. I don’t think it needs many…
Fleeced.
I have to give them credit. Those turtles are better-educated than I thought. I caught them reading Amos Alden’s Big Book of Handspinning to the other day. Which probably makes this whole thing my fault, really, since it was the only reading material left on the table with them. But seriously, who knew turtles could…
Stormy
We’ve had three storms in a week, for a total of 65cm in the past 8 days. (That’s 25.5″ for those of you of the Imperial Forces.) Three days of being trapped inside an increasingly small house and I feel a little like a pinball inside a machine, ricocheting off the four walls and scoring…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 