2026 W5: Stressful & strangely magnetic 🔗
§ Rabbit rabbit. Happy February. It has been seven months since the last time the first day of a month fell on a Sunday. Now it will happen two months [...]
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2026 W4: Below zero 🔗
§ Last Sunday I moved my quails inside in anticipation of an impending cold spell. I made them a cozy outdoor coop that is protected from the wind and [...]
2026 W3: Something in the air 🔗
§ Hello there § On Tuesday I gave a presentation about exhibit design to a nearby school group. This required creating a slideshow deck which is a tas [...]
2026 W2: Unexplainable bout 🔗
§ Little by little, Christmas decorations have been packed away and I’ve slowly started getting back into the swing of things in the new year. The day [...]
2026 W1: Rough around the edges 🔗
§ Hello there. Welcome to 2026. § I worked on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day for the first time in a while, trying to save up some PTO to use later [...]
52 photos of 2025 🔗
Previously: 52 photos of 2024 and 52 photos of 2023 [...]
2025 W52: An odd sight 🔗
§ And here we are, the last weeknote of 2025. A good year, all things considered. I’m looking forward to 2026 which is shaping up to be even better. § [...]
2025 W51: Buoyed 🔗
§ Hello and happy solstice. Longer days can’t come soon enough. § In the middle of 15°f weather, our entire street lost power early last Sunday evenin [...]
2025 W50: Just a little bizarre 🔗
§ Our company holiday party was on Monday. My team won the gingerbread house building contest and then I watched my coworkers sing karaoke. The weathe [...]
2025 W49: Soundtrack to my dreams 🔗
§ As the sun sets at 4:57pm I commute home from work under the ghostly light of a particularly bright full moon on Thursday. I later read that it was [...]
2025 W48: Lake-effect 🔗
§ A three day work week followed by a four day weekend was exactly what I needed. During my time off I started renovating a spare bedroom Caroline and [...]
2025 W47: Imaginary fruit tree 🔗
§ At work this week I experimented with CNCing foam into small modular ‘topographical’ panels for an exhibit I’m prototyping. Previously, I’ve only re [...]
2025 W46: Spiritually similar 🔗
§ The snow that was threatened for this week did indeed arrive Monday morning and stuck around through Tuesday. I had to dig through the garage for a [...]
2025 W45: A single leaf 🔗
§ That cold I mentioned last week? It never materialized. Thanks zinc/vitamin c/sleep/water/luck! § As the weather cools down, our fig has been partic [...]
2025 W44: A great bratwurst 🔗
§ Tuesday morning I flew into Milwaukee for a brief work trip. I was in the city for less than 24 hours so it wasn’t nearly enough time to form a comp [...]
2025 W43: Inertia 🔗
§ A week of almost nonstop rain forced me inside to finally tidy up, rearrange a bit, and hang up some artwork I’ve been neglecting for way too long. [...]
2025 W42: Pruning and harvesting 🔗
§ I’ve written and published a post like this every week since December 10th, 2022 which makes this my 150th weeknote. While each individual entry mig [...]
2025 W41: Ten cloves 🔗
§ These last few weeks of October before daylight savings time ends are some of my favorite. Dramatic dark mornings that suddenly break into sunrise d [...]
2025 W40: Preternatural talent 🔗
§ Tuesday was the ribbon-cutting of a new permanent early childhood exhibition gallery I’ve been working on for the past two years. It is such a joy t [...]
2025 W39: Suburban adulthood 🔗
§ Last Sunday was 85°f and sunny. The forecast for the coming week was all rain and low-70s temperatures so I thought I should take full advantage of [...]
2025 W38: Civil twilight 🔗
§ After work on Monday I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a few coworkers. I’m not quite sure I’ve ever visited before despite living in Cl [...]
2025 W37: Taste and texture 🔗
§ That pawpaw talk I attended last Sunday did indeed—ahem—bear fruit. I finally got the opportunity to taste a pawpaw after first learning about them [...]
2025 W36: Pawpaw talk 🔗
§ It is the start of Apple season and I’ve finally found a variety I like—zestar. They’re crisp and just a bit tart where I find most apples are eithe [...]
2025 W35: Precocious Nubian goat 🔗
§ Fall weather watch: temperatures were in the 60s and 70s all week. I broke out my sweaters from storage and wore a different one each day. We turned [...]
2025 W34: With lasers 🔗
§ While I know this specifically isn’t a tomato year in our garden, when I noticed a little volunteer tomato plant pop up next to our peas earlier thi [...]