Wandawega Wonderland

Friends who built the amazing tree house at Camp Wandawega invited a bunch of us up for the weekend. What a perfect way to start summer! Especially this summer--the first in 9 years where I'm not running a summer program and missing out on all the fun. Woooh me.












Everyone's photos can be seen here.

On Being and Frumpiness

I love this little article (envoyé à moi d'Elisabeth) debating whether Simone de Beauvoir was considered attractive. I'm looking forward to reading the new translation of The Second Sex since I couldn't get through the original version. (A bit too laborious for the mood I was in...) Although Wartime Diary and Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algreen I could not put down. I highly recommend the later, especially with all its Chicago connections and living near and frequenting some of her old haunts.







I say, total fox.

WELCOME SPRING!

How cute does my front yard look??

Garden/cats/home update coming soon...

For Sandy

Add 8 to your tally...

from the photo archives

snowbound (snow lazy)

Last Thursday and Friday we had a snowstorm. Didn't end up being as much as they anticipated, but ended up with about 8 or 9 inches. Just enough to be annoying and require snow boots for my morning hike to the train:



View from the office:


Friday night I decided it was time to order all of our random kitchenware collections displayed in one of the pantries off the kitchen. Pantries plural, you ask? Yes, we have 2. One with a door that hides all the ugly stuff and one that is more of a coffee-making/toast-making nook that houses all the random collectibles. Lately it's accumulated a collection of wayward objects like tools, cat treats, vitamin bottles and items our neighbor Ann gives us(more on that later!). Fed up with the rummage sale vibe, I opted for the color sort:




Yep, that's what I did Friday night.

woohoo.

the lost slides

After my grandfather passed away this summer, my dad discovered a box of old 35mm slides. Among the pictures of of my father's (and his siblings') first communions, confirmations and graduations there were these amazing images from--as we say in Wisconsin--up north, of summers spent fishing and swimming during the the 50's and early 60's. Oh simpler times, sometimes you look so good...

(My dad is the blonde with the big ears)