From the monthly archives: May 2010
Permit me a brief vacation. The Bleat returns tomorrow. Strib Memorial Day column here. Rest assured this will not be a truncated week, though – the entire rich panoply of updates is finished and ready to roll, so it will be a busy week.
Subjects for discussion:
What you plan to grill. (You [...]
Went to child’s “Parade of States” event at school. Auditorium was rockin’ with the sort of glee you only get when school ends next week and this afternoon’s been devoted to a show, cake, and kickball. Natalie came running up once she saw me, and announced she would be . . . the announcer. Pride! [...]
Another perfect day. This is getting so OLD. I lie, of course. The weatherguy in the paper today the long-range forecasts call for a cooler, wetter period – “June through August.” Which is also known as “summer.” I doubt it’s true, but if so -
Well, nothing. But nothing is sadder in these parts than [...]
The entire night was devoted to constructing Wisconsin in cake form. Tomorrow’s Parade of Edible States is the highlight of the waning days of schooling, and we’re all set. The cake is decorated and ready, festooned with flags announcing the Official Mineral and other pertinent details. She made a multimedia presentation to show to the [...]
May in Minneapolis:
It got warmer. It was 90+ most of the day, with humidity and a breeze: just what I want out of summer. Not for the entire summer – had enough shirt-soaking summers in DC, thank you, and that was during a mandatory-tie period of my life. But you [...]
The weekend begins, as it has for so many years, with piano lessons. Child grouses off the bus and grouses into the car, gets into a better mood en route as we fall into conversation. When we get to the old decommissioned high-school where she takes lessons, we make fun of things we’ve seen before [...]
One of those timeless days devoid of the dreary details of modern life – no burbling phones, no BONGs to announce an email, no b’ding! from your DVR to warn you that it would like to change the channel and record something else, no meek triple-beep from the coffee pot to inform you it’s shut [...]
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