Activities as of late...

Let's see...it's been a busy week.

I've been spending a bunch of time with Baby Ben. I had a pretty lousy Friday morning having to do with a weird "bait and switch" situation with the new assistantship and after driving around, fuming for a bit, I realized I wanted to be around Ben. So I popped over to the Topp-Mike household, vented for a bit, and Kim handed Ben to me. I sat there for over an hour, just feeling him sleep in my arms. Watching his little face furrow as random dreams flew his head. Totally helped take the edge off the morning.

Friday night brought a baseball game. I'm not a huge baseball fan but I do enjoy being in the environment.



Saturday was a working day. Domestic work, garden work and then bar work. The first harvest of basil is shown here. I've been eating pesto all day. Lucky folks at work tonight with the garlic coming out of my pores.



This week will be a lot of heat and some more hard work. Next weekend will be Chicago Pride. I'm sure there will be good pics and stories from there.

Take care everyone.

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some updates

Let's see...what's been happening.

Kim had her baby. :)



Not to get all mushy but there has been nothing in my life that has prepared me for being in the room as a baby is born. It was life changing.

And my mom sent me a garden gnome for the garden. He's keeping guard, discouraging the rabbits.


And I have an assistantship for next year. More details to follow after I sign the letter of intent but it would seems that things are falling into place.

Ooo! And looking at getting a pup. I think this guy is going to be joining the ranks.

Photo post

Prom Night at London Underground. Robyn and me with Audrey and Brian

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The radishes were the first ones to show up. :)


This makes it look pretty small but it's a straight on shot. There have been multiple conversations about the actual dimensions, which could be solved by measuring, but at this point it's assumed to be 4-ish feet from the sidewalk to the fence and somewhere between 10 and 14 feet long.


This is the view of the garden from my third floor patio. You can get a sense of perspective of where it is in the backyard.



This is the crew of folks I worked with at UW-Stevens Point. It was pretty awesome to have everyone together to celebrate Kyle and Krystal's wedding. It was an amazing time.


At the wedding above, the giveaways were little amphibians. Because this one was orange and bendy, it was named Jared.