Happy New Year; botony, grants, and video.

Jan 2, 2008

I worked on the LRRD website over the last two days, and added some new videos. Also more work on our grant proposal. Kate and I did a new year’s hike with Karen Renzaglia and learned a lot about ferns and lichens. Here she tells us about the “walking...

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Nice snow in Carbondale, dog needs a home.

Dec 17, 2007

Kate and I had fun at Hangar 9 last night listening to these crazy people. I was reminded of Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Earl Scruggs, Chris Whitley. And with none of the positive stuff, just a driving chunka chunka bluegrassy beat, happy danceable songs about...

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A fun sarcastic Carbondale Saturday.

Dec 8, 2007

A gray, drizzly day in Carbondale. Here’s Kate with with Elaine, manager of the Long Branch. Which we’re now calling the “Wrong Branch” because we had fun being viscous, mean jokers today. We had so much fun I forgot to take pictures. We needed...

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Gift shopping in Carbondale and pro-Bush hooligans.

Dec 1, 2007

Kate and I went to the alternative gift fair at SIUC today and bought gifts for our loved ones. We bought beautiful things from the people who made them. Aside from our other artist friends, we found Karen Linduska, who does some of the most beautiful art I’ve...

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We are surrounded by drug dealers.

Nov 22, 2007

Today was huge–Mediacom connected us to the internets. A cable had to be run through an alley behind us, and Barrett and Jesse went up into the attic to help. We were so excited that nobody took a photo. So I started drawing a map as a joke and then noticed some...

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