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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Prairie school’d

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

THERE’S A SWEET SPOT in Afton State Park—atop a bluff overlooking the St. Croix River, surrounded by blooming prairie, under a lone spreading oak—where we took up residence over Memorial Day weekend. Despite dismal weather predictions, we hiked, climbed, ID’ed plants, hid & sought, played gin-rummy and cribbage, ate ourselves stupid and generally kicked it loose [...]

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Hot rubber

Friday, May 20, 2011

THANK YOU AAROW RUBBER STAMP for hosting our latest Make Sh!t moment: true rubber stamps made via an archaic process involving goggles, big mittens and Master Vulcanizer Craig Phillips shouting “Hot rubber!” seemingly at random. We mined images from Johanna’s drawings, zoological illustrations, and private icon stashes. Talking about making concrete lawn ornaments next, which [...]

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To distraction (and back)

Friday, May 13, 2011

NOTIONS I CLING TO IN SPITE OF THE EVIDENCE: That bureaucratic policies are rational and will be fairly applied (no Kindergarten can make room for my amazing kid? Lousy luck, I guess). That problems tend to solve themselves (not the case with dental work and plumbing, turns out). And that things eventually get back to [...]

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Rolling on

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

SUDDENLY IT’S MAY, ushered in as usj: a bike ride, a parade, snow flurries, a black-shambling-BBQ-noise-dumpster-on-wheels that is only street legal in the parallel universe of Minneapolis’s May Day Festival (click full-screen to see the whole evil deal). I’ll post more as soon as weekends and nights stop being work timez. Criminy. >> Smersh – [...]

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