Been working on Christmas gifts. All the material was from thrift stores.

Monday! 7 pm! Spot Bar! Learn how Captain Bernie Cooper was a STAND UP GUY AND THE HERO WE ALL NEED! Sing-along to follow.

The 1st Bank Building in downtown St Paul

Save the Date! Monday, November 10 7 pm The Spot Bar 50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald What: History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot

People with EVs: what home 240v charger do you recommend? I have a Nissan Leaf. I would like to be able to turn charging on & off on a timer or remotely. I have an uninsulated, unheated garage. I don't want to pay $500.

I'm a bike lane and I am coming for your parking! Ugh! A prime truck is blocking the bike lane! Both are scary!

I am looking for a Halloween activity after trick and treaters are done. I have a very scary costume.

MAH NAYM IZ MARVIN. I LOOK HANDSOME BUT IM HER 2 DESTROY UR STUFF. DIS WEEK I KNOCKD LAMP ON LAPTOP AN BROKE 2 GLASEZ.

Marvin: a Story in Three Acts

Reformation Sunday makes me happy because of the promise that we as individuals, the church, and the world can re-form and learn and grow and be better.

Biking up Summit today there was a messy car crash - burning car in someone's yard, two smashed cars in the street. Fire trucks & ambulances. The speed necessary would be nearly impossible if Summit were already redesigned. #carsrcoffins

8 pumpkins in the rain really tested my brakes getting back down the hill.

14 years ago I was deciding whether to go to my midwife appointment or take a nap. Good thing I went to the appointment because Elliot was born less than 3 hours later! Happy 14 years to my ever challenging, surprising, and tenacious youngest child.

Sweden is great for many reasons but 1) there are silent cars on trains & busses that means exactly that and 2) even in regular trains anything above a whisper is considered very rude. No one would EVER play a video or music on their phone.

@max1mil.bsky.social The people at the Spot are calling Viticulture "Snobby Monopoly." 😅😆😅

I am being so wholesome today! Played handbells at the early service, hanging laundry on the line, now I am making and canning cherry tomato jam and rhubarb.

ICYMI - SNAP benefits will be suspended Nov 1 due to the federal shutdown. Counties and Tribal Nations are no longer processing new applications. 1) Now is the time to donate money to your local food shelf. 2) If you need help still apply. dcyf.mn.gov/federal-shut...

Save the Date! Monday, November 10 7 pm The Spot Bar 50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald What: History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot

As a change of subject, today I will love skeet the Iowa corn harvest. Currently we are looking for my 84 yo FIL who is out in a combined harvester.

Not to be a pedant, but that is a parlay. A duvet is a person who stubbornly refuses to change their course of action or opinion.

Got COVID vaccines for me & my kids today. There were no issues, lots of appointments at Walgreens, and as easy as it was in the before times.

I am on a transit adventure! Trying Gold Line to Woodbury Micro Transit to get to the spa store to get my hot tub water tested.

I am on a 3-month leave from work due to stress & this is the first time since I was 15 yo that I just gave time. I have a job interview, a networking coffee, & a meeting with a career counselor this week, but this morning I am stunned by time. What to do? Laundry for starters I guess.

Last night I dreamt that I had a Jimmy Buffett and Willie Murphy collaboration album and @tombasgen.bsky.social wouldn't let me play it

TIL that in my 14 yo's contacts his dad is Dad and I am Spawnpoint.

I went to a witch party last night. We ate pumpkin soup & cake & drank many margaritas. We wrote hopeful things on paper & put them under candles on a mirror. We did an incantation under the moon. We tied ribbons to forks while telling each other why we care about each other.

My house when I bought it a decade ago and now.

Walking past turkeys always makes me nervous. 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

I am getting my house painted Make Your Neighbors Wish They Had an HOA Yellow. The painters showed me and asked, "Are you sure?"😄

So being at Brussels Airport is a lot of fun. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

We sure got lucky by being in Brussels on Car Free Day. Like Open Streets BUT THE WHOLE CITY. Rode bikes for about 5 hours in areas we never would have got to otherwise. Kids all over, teens on skateboards, elderly women laughing. Lots of neighborhood celebrations. Cars kill cities.

I am ecstatic that, although we did not plan this, we will be in Brussels on Car Free Day this Sunday! All public transit free, street parties and circuses, fairs, activities, etc. Score!

STOP 💋 KISS & GO. Crosswalk signage in Mersch, Luxembourg.

We are all official now! As a spouse I can get a 5 year residency and work permit before applying for citizenship.

My review of sketchy bike infrastructure in Luxembourg City. We rented Vel'Oh bike share bikes yesterday. They were inexpensive (2€ for a 24 subscription, 1st 30 mins of each ride free, 5€ daily max charge), the stations are plentiful, and it seems very popular given the number of empty stations. 🧵

I appreciate that the Catholics are just all in for the whole gig - the fashion, interior design, and architecture. They just don't fuck around.

Transit and transportation or streets related photos from Luxembourg. Details in alt text.

Experiencing a massive bus stop social engagement including using Google translate to talk to children because the busses are cancelled due to the Tour de Luxembourg bike race. About 20 of us are on to our third bus stop with great debate about what to do next.

Luxembourg City isn't real. It's fairytale beautiful, free transit, and has fast, helpful and efficient government offices. Plus delicious, cheap wine. Fake, I tell you, fake.

Luxembourg City's transit system. It and trains are all free.

I am trying a new approach to international flight. Rather than avoiding alcohol for less jet lag, I had much wine at the airport bar in hopes of sleeping. This is my husband's idea. Will report back. I have never slept on a plane.

The Committee Weighs In I tell my mother I’ve won the Nobel Prize. Again? she says. Which discipline this time? It’s a little game we play: I pretend I’m somebody, she pretends she isn’t dead. —Andrea Cohen 10 years feels like a second & a lifetime.

With all the poison in the world, it is good to be reminded that Willie Nelson exists. Standing by his principles against great consequences and now Farm Aid goes on and the Teamsters have a contract. Gov Walz all, "Yes, sir, Mr Nelson. We all know who is boss here."

Mood. Anger is an energy. youtu.be/jPj-8_wOZcA?...

I am headed to Belgium and Luxembourg later this week and am SO BEYOND READY TO GTFO.

I am looking for temporary work in October - December. HMU if you know of anything.

Marking the three year anniversary of the Float Party in the water feature at Highland Bridge.

Bee orgy or bees cuddling in the cold? Both?

Seeking recommendations for a career counselor. Thinking of making a change but not sure what or how.

Twice this week a medical provider has offered me a referral to a social worker for my "transportation barriers." 😂😂