Grutz says, "I'm just going to write about our plans for today." Carleen says, "What are we doing today?" Grutz says, "I don't know."

The best laid plans.....don't take into consideration my forgetfulness.
Thank you all for such great suggestions for quick getaways for the two of us.  Though Boston doesn't lend itself well to a "quick getaway", it's still an idea that needs further investigating.  But we didn't make it out of Chicago yesterday.  I kind of forgot about Carleen's dance class on Saturday.  And meeting up with Tom & Holly and Tim & Laura last night.  So now, today, the getaway, I think, will involve a short jaunt to a neighboring county park for a picnic.  Or enjoying the city (like everyone else!).  The temperature is projected to be in the low 80s!  Now where are my short-shorts?

To think that last week it was still mittens weather.  The lovely Carleen with some Chicago landmarks.  And industry.

The carrion game, the game the whole family can stomach!
As I'm sure you, like a many around the world (over 11 32 million views!), are glued into the Decorah Eagle Cam.  All three eaglets are live and kicking and I'm amazed at their quick development.  The arrival of the eaglets has ushered a bountiful harvest of tasty treats.  I find myself playing a identification game each time I visit the cam.  "Now let's see, that's a rabbit, a crow, aaaaaaaaaand I want to say......a trout."  Just a moment ago I switched over to see one of the eagles depositing a fresh meal.  I was describing to to Carleen, "Oh, he just dropped off a rabbit.  No, squirrel.  Nope, it's a duck.  Yeah, a duck."  Wow.  This is how I spend my Sundays before Being and The Splendid Table.  Interesting.

From a few days ago.  It's a marmoset!  No, no, it's a gopher!  No, it's a rabbit.  Bingo.

Combating ignorance one day at a time.


Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps The Great Railway Bazaar(1975). He has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast.

Joseph Pulitzer  (April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), born Politzer József, was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading national figure in the Democratic party. He crusaded against big business and corruption. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William R. Hearst's New York Journal introduced yellow journalism and opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to the reader with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.

Today he is best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes.


And rumor has it that Carleen will be posting soon!!!!!!!!!!