Sunday, July 12, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Almost July
But you wouldn't know it from this weather. Very cool tonight. Played some guitar out on the patio inspired by seeing Todd at the Ark Saturday which was FABULOUS!!!! Not too much singing along by the audience. Some unnecessary CLAPPING which at one point I was going to chuck my beer bottle at somebody who was SO out of rhythm it was unbearable. Great meal at Conor O'Neil's prior to. Thanks to Jim for driving us bags.
Todd did a goofy rendition of "Brandy" for which he had to read the words off a music stand. This is the song he said his dad loved when Todd was a kid in the second NPR piece last week about him. Sherry asked in the car on the way home how old Todd is and I said 43 (which he'll be in October). People were amazed.
I love it when he tells the stories about why he writes songs. He told a great one about the song Stuck on a Corner from Peace Queer. "My wife and daughter spend my money pretty much all the time." OMG we were laughing continuously.
So Sunday morning, I got up and ordered "Viva Satellite" and "Near Truths and Hotel Rooms" from half. com. That last one is a live concert CD which is what we love about Todd, with the stories and stuff.
So I mowed yesterday and dug up all the weeds out of part outside the east kitchen window. And pulled up a bunch of ground ivy which plagues my grass. I see that I have to apply some chemical after the first frost to get rid of this stuff.
I went to the farmers market Saturday and got black raspberries from which I made a cobbler and some cucumbers and some various colored eggs. I stopped myself from buying more perennials although there were some great day lilies cheap.
GNO Wednesday at Sherry's where it will be cool as it was last year when she had it.
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Todd did a goofy rendition of "Brandy" for which he had to read the words off a music stand. This is the song he said his dad loved when Todd was a kid in the second NPR piece last week about him. Sherry asked in the car on the way home how old Todd is and I said 43 (which he'll be in October). People were amazed.
I love it when he tells the stories about why he writes songs. He told a great one about the song Stuck on a Corner from Peace Queer. "My wife and daughter spend my money pretty much all the time." OMG we were laughing continuously.
So Sunday morning, I got up and ordered "Viva Satellite" and "Near Truths and Hotel Rooms" from half. com. That last one is a live concert CD which is what we love about Todd, with the stories and stuff.
So I mowed yesterday and dug up all the weeds out of part outside the east kitchen window. And pulled up a bunch of ground ivy which plagues my grass. I see that I have to apply some chemical after the first frost to get rid of this stuff.
I went to the farmers market Saturday and got black raspberries from which I made a cobbler and some cucumbers and some various colored eggs. I stopped myself from buying more perennials although there were some great day lilies cheap.
GNO Wednesday at Sherry's where it will be cool as it was last year when she had it.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Swelterish
It has been 85+ every day this week. Fortunately we got a splash of rain Wednesday night when I was at Amy's drinking wine and some good downpours last night during some light thunderstorming. But I watered tonight as things still look stressed.
Those plants out front are doing pretty well although I moved that one wormwood because it was crowding that spirea looking thing. But on the west side of the porch, a big tall thing is crowding a fancy hydrangea thing. I nearly lost the plants in my windowboxes to lack of water. Gotta keep an eye on them. The far back, as I call it, is so heavily entrenched, perennial-wise, that it doesn't seem to matter that it gets no rain but I watered it tonight too. Maybe in the AM I can do some weeding back there. My grass is longish but I will probably wait until the beginning of the week to mow when it supposedly will be cooler. Actually it's kinda lush.
The raised bed is a cacophony of weird flowers and a lavender and tomato and pepper plants. It needs some attention. Herbs are doing great except the cilantro which I bought the slow-bolting kind and still it bolts. Tom and Jessica and I were talking about how it's weird that so much Mexican food features cilantro but how do they grow it in that heat?
I took Amy to the Crosby Gardens preview show tonight where (1) it was pretty hot and (2) the food was lackluster and (3) we didn't see anything we would lay out money for, even if we'd had a bunch to lay out. They had this Caribbean slant to the chow with chicken kabobs and fish kabobs and salad and black bean soup (a little toasty for THAT) and pineapple upside down cake. No chocolate. What were they thinking?? I kept wracking my brain to remember who I took last year, but I couldn't come up with anything and when I look back on the blog, I don't see that I went.
NPR interviewed Todd Snider the other day and it was such a bummer interview, I felt compelled to write and complain. They made him sound like a drug-addled rehab alumnus whose songs were full of pain. Come on! What about Happy to Be Here and Late Last Night and oh, I could go on. Tomorrow night, Todd at the Ark. I'm excited.
So, it's July Wednesday and GNO at Sherry's.
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Those plants out front are doing pretty well although I moved that one wormwood because it was crowding that spirea looking thing. But on the west side of the porch, a big tall thing is crowding a fancy hydrangea thing. I nearly lost the plants in my windowboxes to lack of water. Gotta keep an eye on them. The far back, as I call it, is so heavily entrenched, perennial-wise, that it doesn't seem to matter that it gets no rain but I watered it tonight too. Maybe in the AM I can do some weeding back there. My grass is longish but I will probably wait until the beginning of the week to mow when it supposedly will be cooler. Actually it's kinda lush.
The raised bed is a cacophony of weird flowers and a lavender and tomato and pepper plants. It needs some attention. Herbs are doing great except the cilantro which I bought the slow-bolting kind and still it bolts. Tom and Jessica and I were talking about how it's weird that so much Mexican food features cilantro but how do they grow it in that heat?
I took Amy to the Crosby Gardens preview show tonight where (1) it was pretty hot and (2) the food was lackluster and (3) we didn't see anything we would lay out money for, even if we'd had a bunch to lay out. They had this Caribbean slant to the chow with chicken kabobs and fish kabobs and salad and black bean soup (a little toasty for THAT) and pineapple upside down cake. No chocolate. What were they thinking?? I kept wracking my brain to remember who I took last year, but I couldn't come up with anything and when I look back on the blog, I don't see that I went.
NPR interviewed Todd Snider the other day and it was such a bummer interview, I felt compelled to write and complain. They made him sound like a drug-addled rehab alumnus whose songs were full of pain. Come on! What about Happy to Be Here and Late Last Night and oh, I could go on. Tomorrow night, Todd at the Ark. I'm excited.
So, it's July Wednesday and GNO at Sherry's.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
So I'm behind. Again.
I was looking on etsy.com for a vintage sundress and I really like this one but alas it's $275 but worse, the waist on it is 26 inches.
Tom called Sunday afternoon and he and Jessica were on their way to BG from some wedding they'd been at in Michigan so they stopped by for about 4 hours. I gave them some coffee and gelato. They had had a few drinks at the wedding. I was once again invited to Austin for Christmastime. I should just book a flight now.
We went to the park Saturday afternoon for an Alicia's Voice benefit featuring JoeBob Duda and Rod's Collision. It was a beautiful day. Afterward, Stubbs and Chip and Amy and I played cards chez moi. Others went to Sherry and Fred's and played a board game, I hear on Facebook.
My old friend Sue Lorenz has friended me on Facebook. I haven't heard from her in a long time. People are congratulating her on her new job but I don't what that is. She is playing Mafia Wars which is some online game for which you have to download some special software which I am unwilling to do.
Looking forward to seeing Todd Snider at the Ark on Saturday. Cripe it's almost the end of June already.
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Tom called Sunday afternoon and he and Jessica were on their way to BG from some wedding they'd been at in Michigan so they stopped by for about 4 hours. I gave them some coffee and gelato. They had had a few drinks at the wedding. I was once again invited to Austin for Christmastime. I should just book a flight now.
We went to the park Saturday afternoon for an Alicia's Voice benefit featuring JoeBob Duda and Rod's Collision. It was a beautiful day. Afterward, Stubbs and Chip and Amy and I played cards chez moi. Others went to Sherry and Fred's and played a board game, I hear on Facebook.
My old friend Sue Lorenz has friended me on Facebook. I haven't heard from her in a long time. People are congratulating her on her new job but I don't what that is. She is playing Mafia Wars which is some online game for which you have to download some special software which I am unwilling to do.
Looking forward to seeing Todd Snider at the Ark on Saturday. Cripe it's almost the end of June already.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
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