veralouie

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

bear island

a very cool documentary... or is it a series? that's what it kind of sounds like from this press release you can read. we randomly caught it on pbs tonight.. the 1 hour premiere... fortune!

Monday, June 25, 2007

et tu?

we have taken the first step toward getting this little pup
named brutus. that is, we have emailed the

rescue expressing our interest in meeting
him. but we have not heard back.
so i'm getting worried that he
is destined to another
family. sigh. think
good thoughts.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

flower season

our calla-fornia calla lilly...

our flower basket...

wild flowers at the gardens...

a gardener's plot... sadly, not ours...

our plot...from one of the beatrices...

a grander view of the newer plot...

the little mysteries... turning into chives?

in other news... we are losing dirt in our courtyard...

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!

go to oyez.org to hear oral arguments in front of the u.s. supreme court.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

it seems as though the longer the days get, the less time i seem to have... or perhaps i try to be outside when i'm not working or at class or doing homework, because the weather is finally so nice and in wisconsin, those nice days are not to be taken for granted. anyhow, some indoor pictures for now...

saturday we got serious about cleaning up. that is, we seriously talked about it and we thought very seriously about the food that was to get us through the planned evening of chores...

monday was my birthday and as such, i took a picture from my desk at work so that i could remember the beautiful, sunny day that it was not...

tuesday i got sworn into the bar... so that now i am officially a licensed attorney in the state of wisconsin...

signing the roll of attorneys that goes back to before statehood... so they say...

a good friend from the very first days of law school, who, within minutes of meeting me said, so, you're going to invite me to your wedding right? we are wearing the same suit. so embarrassing.

and now it's back to homework.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

memreees

some quick background: greg once lived in tennessee and has an uncle who flew small planes. greg tells me that one time this uncle flew to visit him and his family in tennessee.

so... we are listening to this american life, episode #188- "kid logic." this leads to both of us recalling that when we were little, we thought airplanes landed in people's driveways and dropped them off... however... greg has a distinct memory of his uncle's plane parked in his driveway in tennessee.

last week continued

i was afraid this posting would be redundant for those who read tm's blog until i realized that i moved... rather than copied... all of my pictures from the family reunion we attended last weekend to greg's cousin's flash drive and so they are no longer with me. so if you are interested in those pictures, click on tm's blog above... speaking of tm... or cw... or tw... or tt... or whatever her initials may be... here is the only picture she is a part of that i am forcing her to endure on veralouie this time around...

not so bad... it's not even nearly a close-up!

Friday, June 15, 2007

our young food

from 1983's american wholefoods cuisine by nikki & david goldbeck:

"just as we cannot put unleaded gasoline in our 1950 Chevy pickup and expect it to run efficiently, modern technological foods may be inappropriate for our prehistoric bodies. processed and fragmented foods and those that add unnatural amounts of sugar, salt, and fat, as well as modern food chemicals, are still very new to our system."