Nice spring weather this week. We enjoyed it by taking walks in the woods. I was mostly recovered from strep by Wednesday, which was good because Amanda was in Austin for work from Wednesday morning to Friday night. Charlie and I spent Wednesday and Thursday evenings at playgrounds, then on Friday we went to Home…

I’m writing this while recovering from strep, which I also got last year. Probably the same source (Charlie via daycare.) Hopefully the antibiotics kick it quickly. I’ve avoided the worst of it by catching it early. Both Charlie and I had two days of being properly sick, then back on the upswing. It put a…

I didn’t write last week because I was out of town. Here is a recap of the last two weeks. As I wrote about in the last post, my Mom was here to visit and watch Charlie since he had the week off (daycare closed for spring break) and we still had to work. It…

Going to be a shorter post tonight. I’m tired from a day of shoveling compost and dirt to finish the garden beds project. We ended the day by sowing peas, radishes, spinach, and cilantro. Check out how nice our compost looks! The compost bins were one of our early pandemic projects. I’ve already used it…

We’ve all been sick with a cold this week. Charlie got it first and recovered the fastest. Amanda got it next and was down Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I got it Saturday afternoon and was down most of Sunday. Hopefully I’ll recover quickly. Thursday and Friday after work/daycare, and Saturday after dinner Charlie and I…

The warm weather and extra daylight at the end of the day has been a welcome change. Every night this week Amanda, Charlie, and I spent some time outside after daycare/work and before dinner. We are dinner outside multiple times this week, went for walks, cooked dinner on the grill, got our outdoor seating out,…

Lots of rain this week, so we did indoor activities like going to the library, going to the grocery store, and making ambulances out of boxes. This box is still in our living room, though now Charlie calls it his “garage” and likes to hide underneath it while we walk around the house and call…

My birthday was this week! I wrote a post about it. I’m continuing to work on my workshop upgrade as much as I can. This week I: Things are starting to come together nicely and I’m pretty happy about it! I’m getting excited about working in there more. Posts also forthcoming on the general upgrade…

The big event two weeks ago was a snow storm on Tuesday. We got 11″ of snow here in Peekskill, the most in the region. Daycare was closed, along with everything else, so Amanda and I switched off hanging out with Charlie while the other worked. No snow days is a downside of remote work!…

I decided to go forward with the workshop upgrades, so that has been taking most of my time outside of work this week. The current plan: I spent a lot of time this weekend glueing together 2x4s and planing them for the bench top. After not pre-planing and jointing them in the first section, I…

Teething, friends, working with tools, and shop redesigns.

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The snow melted by the end of the day Tuesday because of all the rain we had. More is forecasted for this week though! This has been a wild weather week around the US. On a single day, US folks on my team shared in Slack that they experienced tornados, flooding, heavy wind, and heavy…

New Year’s Day feels like the only real rest day we had during the holiday break. This week was back-to-work. Tuesday night we made pizza and calzones from the extra NYE dough. I’m really getting the hang of shaping the dough and using the Ooni. My daily stretching and drawing resolution is going well. I’m…

The end of both the autumn season and the calendar year. On the shortest day of the year we celebrated our friend Meg’s birthday at The Central, where her husband set up a surprise party and urged us all to get sitters and have a night out. We are glad we did. It was fun…

Christmas tree update: We added cranberries. We consider our tree a work in progress for all of December. I got out in the shop and made some more ornaments on the lathe. That might be it for this year. Charlie’s daycare class had a Christmas luncheon and Amanda made the menus and flowers. We made…

I’m blogging later than usual because during my normal blogging times I was either out in the workshop turning things on the lathe, baking Christmas cookies, writing Christmas cards, making natural Christmas decorations, or at a Christmas party. All good things. ‘Tis the season. This year we had Emily at Fox Burrow DesignsArchived Link, a…

A first for us: We decorated the Christmas Tree at 7am. That is when Charlie got up and was ready to go. We still need to dry the grapefruits to add to the tree. Every morning Charlie turns the tree on when he comes downstairs, and he turns it off before we leave. He loves…

I’ve been mostly offline this Thanksgiving. I haven’t checked anything for work, checked Twitter (or Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads), read my RSS feeds, or checked any news sites. I did play Wordle, text some friends, and research microwave sales (the power supply on ours died). This was good for me, and I think I need…