So kudos to Leah for keeping blog alive. Which begs the question, “What has Jeff been up to?” Well I’ve been up to a lot, though most recently I was traveling in Alaska. My mom is from AK, and back in the winter my grandmother passed away. It was a sad event, and one lacking …
In a few hours Leah and I are hosting book club, which happens to be on St. Patrick’s Day. This is the same book club that had a Shakespeare party a while back, and it’s a great group of people. Originally book club was a few weeks ago, but none of us had finished the …
For Valentine’s Day I gave Leah four babies. Her babies are green and round and fuzzy, but no, they aren’t tennis balls! Her babies live underwater and come from Japan… by way of Amazon Prime. They’re called marimos, or Japanese moss balls, and by far they’re the strangest plants I’ve ever seen. There’s four of …
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Once Leah got her job in Greensboro we had to figure out where to live. After a fair amount of internet searching we came up with three possible abodes. The first was in a new apartment complex, but constructed in a way to cash in on the “old factory” vibes that are around the city. …
Concerning the last mini-post on snow, we ended up getting enough to shut down school for three days. Surprise! I measured at the mill and we had about six inches, which fits well with a map I found online. I’m going to call this eight in Oregon snow-inches, or twelve and a half in Massachusetts …
I come from a long line of morning people. I have never seen either of my parents sleep in past seven, and (as those close to me may already know) I am coming to terms with my limited ability to stay up late. Which brings me to this bread recipe. My mom will often send …
Tonight there’s a good chance of snow. School is cancelled for me, and Leah brought her stuff home just in case—not that things will get very white. In our short time in North Carolina I’ve observed two different reactions to snow closures. The first is incredulity: “Businesses shut down over a light dusting? Ridiculous!” The …
Leah and I are the first people to live in our apartment, building constructed circa 1898. Where we now eat, read, and pretend we have a dog was at its height America’s largest flannel mill. I love the character of the place; there are ceiling fans on tracks, which used to zip around and blow …
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