That produce stand on Wooster across from the hospital has some great stuff. Really good tomatoes (I didn't grow any red ones), various peppers, apricots, pears. It's that one in somebody's driveway where you just pay what you think is best. Plus it seems like I busted my ass before my radio show but now I can't remember what I did. Besides have a BLT with bacon from Belleville.
Later I went to Amy's and had steak and baked potatoes and grilled veggies and caprese salad and then I went out to the country to see the sun set.
Today I watered in the AM then went to visit my mom in the hospital who looked pretty good and is having some bowel scope tomorrow and thinks she will get to go home then. I told her I would come down next week and take her out to lunch.
Then I came home and washed and ironed and rehung all my curtains and my shower curtains and polished some hardwood and got some cobwebs down and ate a delicious grilled cheese/tomato/avocado and watered other stuff than I did this morning and now am watching the Emmys although I should be tidying up my bedroom.
Tomorrow night is the damn radio meeting and Wednesday GNO is chez moi and Thursday is Nick Moss at the Clazel and then it's Labor Day weekend. I was going to take the whole week off after Labor Day but now I think I'll just take Tuesday and Friday so I can take Sept. 16 off and pick up Karen Schaller from the airport.
This concert Sept. 4 at Promenade Park looks cool. As does this show at UT's Glass Bowl which is unfortunately the same night at Nick Moss.
Remember, it's Gus and Annette's on Labor Day, starts at 2, eat at 5:30. I'm taking deviled eggs. The first time I've made them all summer. Several years ago, I was making them about every weekend.
So anyway, guess I'll go to work tomorrow and see how things go.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
don't have to live like a refugee
Man, I am never home. And on the rare occasions, I am I don't know what to do with myself. I do housekeepery stuff like dishes and laundry and vacuuming. But otherwise I just pretty much float in and out of here, making an egg sandwich, packing a sensible lunch. You know my grocery list is pretty much kitty din, half and half, and chocolate.
And it's been another week of just that. Monday we went to see Todd Snider at the Ark in Ann Arbor. This after a weekend away in Madison, IN, at a blues fest but more about that later. So Todd. We went to the Clay Gallery on Main St. and I received this as a birthday present.
I'm sure my potter friend would have been passing it off as a second, but it caught my eye. Then we ate at the bar at Gratzi: calamari, pizza genovese with a great thin crust and good mozzarella and artichoke hearts and kalamata olives, and a smoked salmon carpaccio with crostini and mache. Yumba. With a bottle of Joel Gott cab.
Got in the Ark at 8, had to wait til 8:25 before Todd came out and he played til 9:10 and took a break. But he came back about 9:40 and played til 10:50. I thought he might not have been at the top of his game but I listened to the bootleg CD I have from when we saw him there last year and he was the same. So I get home about midnight. Yawn.
Tuesday I went out to the country and made about a gallon of fresh tomato sauce which we froze up in individual portions. Hope it's half as good thawed out as it was fresh. Yumba.
Wednesday night home, doing the housekeepery thing and I spoke with our northern correspondent for quite a while. Although I felt I was getting sick which is just this possibly allergy seasonal change thing that is laying many low at this time.
Last night, Amy came over and I fed her some sauce and pasta but she was not feeling good. So I watched some stupid TV and went to bed.
Tonight, although it would have been a beautiful night to just sit on my deck, I went to the Clazel to see Rod's Collision open for Levee Town. There were 15 people there when it started and you know 80 percent of them. Some more came in but when I left at 9:45, it was pretty sparse and us old guys were even filing out.
So the weekend in Madison was great although extremely HOT. Like 95. Good bands: Greg Filmore Band, Stacy Mitchhart, Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps, Delbert McClinton who sang some duets with Teresa. Cryin' Time. Ate some barbecue and a banana split coz it was my birthday.
My friend from Texas called while I was in Indiana to say she had won a ticket on the radio to see Rod's tonight so that's how I got in tonight.
We toured the Lanier Mansion and went in one of the many wineries they have down there and had a sample but all that Midwest wine is too sweet for me.
We drove 75 to 275 to 50 to 421 there. Back we took 421 to I-71 to I-75 and through Cincinnati and home. Although the home trip was less time, it was pretty stressful driving, interstate at 80 mph and construction. I like that hour of wandering Indiana.
My mom is in the hospital. She went on her birthday Wednesday because her medications were out of whack, or so she says. I talked to her last night and she was disoriented, thinking it was 8 AM when it was 8 PM. So I didn't call today but I will tomorrow because I was going down there Sunday anyway.
I bought some new clothes this week: two belts--one sensible black braid, one silver chain, a yellow sleeveless blouse and matching sweater at Talbot's, a pair of low strappy grey boots.
Remind me later I own this stuff...
And it's been another week of just that. Monday we went to see Todd Snider at the Ark in Ann Arbor. This after a weekend away in Madison, IN, at a blues fest but more about that later. So Todd. We went to the Clay Gallery on Main St. and I received this as a birthday present.
I'm sure my potter friend would have been passing it off as a second, but it caught my eye. Then we ate at the bar at Gratzi: calamari, pizza genovese with a great thin crust and good mozzarella and artichoke hearts and kalamata olives, and a smoked salmon carpaccio with crostini and mache. Yumba. With a bottle of Joel Gott cab.
Got in the Ark at 8, had to wait til 8:25 before Todd came out and he played til 9:10 and took a break. But he came back about 9:40 and played til 10:50. I thought he might not have been at the top of his game but I listened to the bootleg CD I have from when we saw him there last year and he was the same. So I get home about midnight. Yawn.
Tuesday I went out to the country and made about a gallon of fresh tomato sauce which we froze up in individual portions. Hope it's half as good thawed out as it was fresh. Yumba.
Wednesday night home, doing the housekeepery thing and I spoke with our northern correspondent for quite a while. Although I felt I was getting sick which is just this possibly allergy seasonal change thing that is laying many low at this time.
Last night, Amy came over and I fed her some sauce and pasta but she was not feeling good. So I watched some stupid TV and went to bed.
Tonight, although it would have been a beautiful night to just sit on my deck, I went to the Clazel to see Rod's Collision open for Levee Town. There were 15 people there when it started and you know 80 percent of them. Some more came in but when I left at 9:45, it was pretty sparse and us old guys were even filing out.
So the weekend in Madison was great although extremely HOT. Like 95. Good bands: Greg Filmore Band, Stacy Mitchhart, Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps, Delbert McClinton who sang some duets with Teresa. Cryin' Time. Ate some barbecue and a banana split coz it was my birthday.
My friend from Texas called while I was in Indiana to say she had won a ticket on the radio to see Rod's tonight so that's how I got in tonight.
We toured the Lanier Mansion and went in one of the many wineries they have down there and had a sample but all that Midwest wine is too sweet for me.
We drove 75 to 275 to 50 to 421 there. Back we took 421 to I-71 to I-75 and through Cincinnati and home. Although the home trip was less time, it was pretty stressful driving, interstate at 80 mph and construction. I like that hour of wandering Indiana.
My mom is in the hospital. She went on her birthday Wednesday because her medications were out of whack, or so she says. I talked to her last night and she was disoriented, thinking it was 8 AM when it was 8 PM. So I didn't call today but I will tomorrow because I was going down there Sunday anyway.
I bought some new clothes this week: two belts--one sensible black braid, one silver chain, a yellow sleeveless blouse and matching sweater at Talbot's, a pair of low strappy grey boots.
Remind me later I own this stuff...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Beating the heat
Today I made the corn soup which is beautiful and tasty -- with fresh thyme and rosemary and carrot/celery/onion and boiling the cobs in milk.
Also made pesto and peach cobbler and the puff pastry rounds for the tomato/mozzarella tartlets for which I have yet to make the tapenade from scratch, with black olives and capers and lemon juice and fresh thyme and olive oil.
Did dishes about 4 times. Paid some bills. Wishing for a big thunderstorm but alas not happening yet. The radar just shows things popping up sporadically.
Short week coming up. Off to Madison Friday then Todd Monday. No radio show all of October due to football. Sept. 4 and 25 and Oct. 30 are still TBA.
Also made pesto and peach cobbler and the puff pastry rounds for the tomato/mozzarella tartlets for which I have yet to make the tapenade from scratch, with black olives and capers and lemon juice and fresh thyme and olive oil.
Did dishes about 4 times. Paid some bills. Wishing for a big thunderstorm but alas not happening yet. The radar just shows things popping up sporadically.
Short week coming up. Off to Madison Friday then Todd Monday. No radio show all of October due to football. Sept. 4 and 25 and Oct. 30 are still TBA.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Computers sheesh
So I bring home 2 cds from the radio station to burn into my iTunes so I can resynch my iPod and that takes forever because for some reason they go into another music folder and it takes me a while to realize where they are and then I discover that some of my iTunes library seems to be missing, like all my Band of Heathens so I get those back in there and I should just resynch. But I want to get in some more Los Lobos and Subdudes before I do. Plus I lost 3 John Nemeth cds somewhere. They WERE on my iTunes but now they're not. How does this happen? Alas.
Today I went to the farmers market and all the eggs were gone so I bought some green beans so after my radio show, I made the green bean potato dish and boiled some eggs I got at Meijer and toyed with making corn soup and peach cobbler and pesto but now I think it'll be done Sunday.
Mowed the back today. Pulled out the Mexican sunflowers and these big things that just came up in the raised bed that I thought were volunteer cosmos but just turned out be giant weeds and took all that to the yard waste then vacuumed out my car at the car wash. This is the sort of time-consuming stuff that engulfs my weekends.
I have searched the internet on what's wrong with my hostas over by the fence but I can't find anything so it must just be dead dirt. I had a dead dirt patch over on Pearl St. that you couldn't get anything to grow in. Maybe I'll try to amend.
Amy went to see Eddie Shaw and George Thorogood at the riboff but I couldn't become interested. McKinley called near the end of my show to say that it was very good for making tuna salad during.
When I leave for the radio station, people at the house west of me are hauling out rubbermaid tubs of food stuffs. Which seems odd since the last 2 nights, no cars have been over there. When I come home from the radio station, there's a U-Haul backed up to the house east of me. And the boy at the house west of me is watering the weedy strip between our driveways while drinking a beer. I ask him how it's going and he says he's just trying to make the grass come back and drink a beer. I mention that's it's hot. He says he's trying to stay out of the house. Now, no one is over there. I decide that either the wife is moving out or they've bombed for some bugs.
Read most of Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms. I don't know why I read his books. They're all about self-absorbed people whose problems don't amount to a hill of beans, as they said in Casablanca.
I am tired of this heat. Everybody says Oh you'll just be bitching about the cold when it comes, but this is like the cold. You just want to stay inside.
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Today I went to the farmers market and all the eggs were gone so I bought some green beans so after my radio show, I made the green bean potato dish and boiled some eggs I got at Meijer and toyed with making corn soup and peach cobbler and pesto but now I think it'll be done Sunday.
Mowed the back today. Pulled out the Mexican sunflowers and these big things that just came up in the raised bed that I thought were volunteer cosmos but just turned out be giant weeds and took all that to the yard waste then vacuumed out my car at the car wash. This is the sort of time-consuming stuff that engulfs my weekends.
I have searched the internet on what's wrong with my hostas over by the fence but I can't find anything so it must just be dead dirt. I had a dead dirt patch over on Pearl St. that you couldn't get anything to grow in. Maybe I'll try to amend.
Amy went to see Eddie Shaw and George Thorogood at the riboff but I couldn't become interested. McKinley called near the end of my show to say that it was very good for making tuna salad during.
When I leave for the radio station, people at the house west of me are hauling out rubbermaid tubs of food stuffs. Which seems odd since the last 2 nights, no cars have been over there. When I come home from the radio station, there's a U-Haul backed up to the house east of me. And the boy at the house west of me is watering the weedy strip between our driveways while drinking a beer. I ask him how it's going and he says he's just trying to make the grass come back and drink a beer. I mention that's it's hot. He says he's trying to stay out of the house. Now, no one is over there. I decide that either the wife is moving out or they've bombed for some bugs.
Read most of Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms. I don't know why I read his books. They're all about self-absorbed people whose problems don't amount to a hill of beans, as they said in Casablanca.
I am tired of this heat. Everybody says Oh you'll just be bitching about the cold when it comes, but this is like the cold. You just want to stay inside.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Catching up somewhat
Anne sent me this picture from California where apparently this was spray painted onto a building
The dining table at the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Grand Rapids, MI.
Living room
Light in the living room
Dining room
Boat of glass blowings in the Meijer Garden Park Chihuly exhibit
Chihuly ball things in a waterfall at the garden park.
Well, so much for my infatuation with the iPad game Words with Friends. I get ahead by about 80 points and then 5 days later my opponent resigns.
The weekend in Grand Rapids was extra fun! We got there, checked into a lovely Country Inn and Suites, went to the Meijer Garden Park to see the Dale Chihuly installations,
ate at Panera, went back to the park, got my tickets at will call, got seats 6 rows from the stage and saw Lyle Lovett and his large band for almost 2.5 hours and then there were fireworks!
Went back to the hotel and drank a bottle of wine, decided we needed another and drove across the parking lot to the world's most giant Meijer store and got us one. Pretty much sleep after that.
Sunday we ate at a Perkins pancake house then saw the Meyer May house, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright and lovingly restored by the Steelcase company. Pictures above.
The weather was perfect.
Today my son called from the Portland OR airport, on his way to China for 3 months. I'm not clear on the deal here but I hope he has a good time. Hope he comes back.
Janiva Magness at the Clazel tomorrow. Deadstring Brothers at Village Idiot Friday. Blues at the RibFest at the Lucas Co. fairgrounds Sunday. We'll see which ones I attend.
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The dining table at the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Grand Rapids, MI.
Living room
Light in the living room
Dining room
Boat of glass blowings in the Meijer Garden Park Chihuly exhibit
Chihuly ball things in a waterfall at the garden park.
Well, so much for my infatuation with the iPad game Words with Friends. I get ahead by about 80 points and then 5 days later my opponent resigns.
The weekend in Grand Rapids was extra fun! We got there, checked into a lovely Country Inn and Suites, went to the Meijer Garden Park to see the Dale Chihuly installations,
ate at Panera, went back to the park, got my tickets at will call, got seats 6 rows from the stage and saw Lyle Lovett and his large band for almost 2.5 hours and then there were fireworks!
Went back to the hotel and drank a bottle of wine, decided we needed another and drove across the parking lot to the world's most giant Meijer store and got us one. Pretty much sleep after that.
Sunday we ate at a Perkins pancake house then saw the Meyer May house, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright and lovingly restored by the Steelcase company. Pictures above.
The weather was perfect.
Today my son called from the Portland OR airport, on his way to China for 3 months. I'm not clear on the deal here but I hope he has a good time. Hope he comes back.
Janiva Magness at the Clazel tomorrow. Deadstring Brothers at Village Idiot Friday. Blues at the RibFest at the Lucas Co. fairgrounds Sunday. We'll see which ones I attend.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Brief Revolver review
Although fancily prepared, portions were huge. Usually this does not go together. I had chicken meatballs with a fried squash blossom and a light tomato sauce for my appetizer and if I hadn't been ready to eat big, I coulda stopped with that. Also I had the chicken which was a breast from a local chicken farm with lima beans and corn. He had duck (he almost always gets duck if it's on the menu) and it was pretty delish. I am not so keen on duck. Plus we had peach crisp for dessert that about made me fall off my chair, it was so delicious. Their menu changes all the time so I want to go back and see what else I can get. It's not that expensive either: $19 for my chicken. I think the duck was $24. appetizers were $5- $9.
more later....
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more later....
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