thursday

today's events:

listening to tracy chapman's album 'where you live'
while doing real estate homework.
and knowing that i'm behind on at least one birthday post:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

work work work

in my workspace on a friday night, doing work, and i'm a third year???? something about this is just not right.

frazzle.

but! regina spektor is keeping me compay. i suggest her to keep you company too!

click on music.

personalysis

hmm... Your Personality Profile

You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection. You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.

The World's Shortest Personality Test

a post of the past

look! royal potatoes

and we ate them.

a veralouie reader requested more pictures of the authors.
today, i am accomodating this request...

one of the pictures above reminds me that i have a post from this summer that was never published. and i think a post from this summer is fitting on a fall day when the temperature is nothing more than a blustery 37 degrees.

a posting from a summer weekend when any fall-like colors came from chairs on a terrace near a lake.

when kit and natalie, former madisonians, wore sweatshirts only because southern illinois thinned their blood

at a friday night frisbee game...

matt m. and his guns...


saturday... we traveled down to the state of toll roads and suburbs for sissy's friend's wedding

bride and groom

table set

cake

parents

sister (with boyfriend in the background... don't worry... pictures of him below)

authors... in the outfits we wore to 3 out of 4 weddings this summer... i'm not embarrassed.


veralouie reader getting her money's worth


last one


sunday spent in chicago...

on a boat tour of chicago architecture...

architecture in chicago




sister and sister's boyfriend before the speedboat portion of the tour

sister and sister's boyfriend during the speedboat portion of the tour


and magically, we're back in madison... during the peak of a pepper harvest

hey guess what?
we signed our very first offer to purchase yesterday for this dirt!
woohoo!
okay, actually not for the dirt at all. we will be leasing the dirt. we offered to buy the place that's going in on top of the dirt.

uh oh.

according to voles.com...
voles can produce 3 to 12 litters per year ranging in size from 1 to 11 young per litter.

132 littlests growing up in our garden... having littlests of their own...

...one hundred and thirty two littlests... squared.

hijacked (by greg!)

Hooray. We decided to do the stupidest thing in the world and run a marathon. Really it's stupid. It hurts everywhere, and even your brain hurts; when you're on mile 22 your mind tells you things, incessantly, and it speaks with your footfalls.

ice-cream-sandwiches ice-cream-sandwiches ice-cream-sandwiches

but surprisingly we're as happy before as after, and vice versa.


(above) That's Nic. He's a loser.
(below) see?

know why he looks so guilty?
he ate a whole field of cabbages!

(above) dumbfounded workers...

consequentially traffic was stopped for days...
(that's why they call him pump'n'munch)

and in evanston...

aaaa!

wait wait... this is all wrong. the birthday party was on saturday, and the marathon was on sunday. but anyhow, shove on

it was a conglomerate party. everyone advanced in age. especially Jason. just kidding, we like to tell him that he's old, but he's actually pretty young. despite the mustache.
ack!
ack! ack!



you can see that as a family we severely neglect our eyebrows

It was our birthday. Like I was saying. It is pretty cool to share a birthday with somebody, because then you don't have to be so embarassed about all the uproar, not that this is embarassing.

hi gramma!
okay, so aparently this blog is full of pictures of me. well, in my defense, Regan picked all the photos and posted them and then asked me to fill in the commentary.

my birthday was pretty awesome. holy crap that's a lot of presents!

(above) me guarding my stash from all of the other wrapping ripping sharks.

(below) everybody got their own personal miniature cake!

uh oh... woof alert! that's him and his daughter(s)!

(parenthisization= happy tenth anniversary teena and geoff! can you believe it? dating for ten years!)

(below) geoff's birthday yielded interesting presents.

as of yet I don't think he's polished anything. ha ha ha. oh gosh that's a good one.

stiff lower lip president geofferson

okay, so back to madison, back to the garden. a few weeks ago I ripped up everything in the plot and put it into piles. surprisingly stuff grew in those piles...

a baby rodent! that was what was growing in the dead plants.

his first portraits

wow that is tiny. so we found the nest, put this little fellow back with his brothers and sisters, and placed protective tomato cages around their home.
ummmm, this is what it looks like at the garden now.

errr, dinner

applesauce!

eleven jars!