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the chicago connection the chicago connection friday may 18 2012 all in favor of today please raise your hand i m having sort of a running competition with myself to choose the most beautiful day of the year for my garden every day i think to myself it might be today but the next day i think no it might be today it is so interesting to me how much i ve learned to love gardening i truly have to say that the first thing i think about when i wake up is the yard i jump out of bed and look out the window this is an incredibly beautiful time of day everything looks fresh and green the sprinklers have usually gone on and the leaves are still wearing glistening drops of water the ground is wet and looks dark and rich it s still cool and there s lots of early morning shade after a quick look out the window i venture out into the yard for a close up inspection yes barefoot and in my pajamas it s kind of my way of saying good morning to each little plant as well as an opportunity to assess what work needs to be done that day i can sustain this enthusiasm until about the end of august and then i start thinking about frost posted by judy at 11 04 pm 3 comments thursday may 17 2012 amateur electrician at work my twelve year old granddaughter natalie is an interesting study in multiple talents combined with uber humility she cooks she sews she crafts she s an amazing soccer player she draws she babysits a few years ago while i was babysitting for randy and judianne we attended a pot luck soccer team party natalie made these scrumptious from scratch sweet rolls everyone was drooling over them smacking their lips and asking who made these heavenly rolls then they would look around at all the adults who were not raising their hands and never even notice the cute little blonde in the soccer outfit with just one finger raised in acknowledgement while randy and his family were here a few weeks ago he pointed out that all my switch plates had been changed to bright white but the guts had not been replaced and didn t look very good he offered to change them out for me late the last night before a very early morning departure he set about to do his work while the rest of us watched a video i was somehow not surprised when i came upstairs and found randy and natalie busily working away but i was surprised that natalie was so interested in how to do it that randy had taught her how to do it and she was working independently chalk up one more talent nat posted by judy at 4 24 pm 3 comments tuesday may 15 2012 an illinois farm when i was 14 i went on a cross country bus tour that my dad organized from cedar city utah to new york city and back to a fourteen year old those were long travel days across nebraska iowa and illinois i had three or four friends on the trip and we could hardly wait to get to our hotel so we could go swimming then we d stay up late and faint something my friends taught me that seemed really new and exciting the drive the next day seemed like nothing but corn field after corn field and mostly i just wanted to sleep my mother would repeatedly say judy wake up and enjoy this beautiful scenery it seemed boring to me after living 35 years in illinois i have come to believe that this state may very well have the most beautiful farms in the world i ve made oh so many trips to nauvoo to champaign to utah and to columbus and no matter which direction we drive i can never get enough of the scenery picture this acre after acre of corn or soy bean fields i love them in the early spring when the ground is newly plowed the rows and rows of turned earth perfectly straight as far as the eye can see i love them when the ground very first begins to turn green i love them in the summer when the corn is high and the tassles blow in the wind i love them in the fall when the heavy machinery is working the fields i love it in the winter when the fields are covered with stubble the machinery is all put away and the farm is prepared for winter every farm has a stand of trees and nestled underneath is a beautiful farm house either white or red the house is surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns the barns grainaries silos and other outbuildings are always in good repair and well cared for and almost every fence post is host to a red winged blackbird as we drove to champaign for quinn s graduation we realized that it was probably the last time we would ever make that drive it was so sad if we ever leave illinois we will really miss this incredible scenery posted by judy at 11 36 pm 1 comment saturday may 12 2012 dr quinn quinn finished his phd last july and moved to boston to continue his post doc at harvard he and tiffany decided to come back to illinois to receive his diploma at the u of i graduation today we had a great day together including a delightful dinner this evening at the home of his department adviser i think quinn and tiffany are thoroughly enjoying a few days without their children thanks to randy and judianne and their upstairs neighbors who are looking after the children we re so grateful that things are going so well for quinn and tiff they continue to work hard to achieve their long term goals that s my boy posted by judy at 11 18 pm 1 comment tuesday may 8 2012 a fun easy quilt my quilts came back from the quilter i finished this one and have another one to do but not for a few days my needle somehow found it easier for the eye end to go through my finger than for the tip to go through the quilt not just once but several times i have one sore finger tip right now posted by judy at 10 25 pm no comments monday may 7 2012 musical torture okay i m going to post a blog before i go to bed and i don t even have a picture to go with it i ve had a giant overdose of opera this week some friends of ours sing with the naperville community choir they had a big concert on saturday night and to support them we purchased tickets it turned out to be an evening of choruses from the operas i have to confess that there are really only three kinds of music that i don t care for hard rock organ music and opera which is strange because growing up i played in an orchestra that played for at least six or seven operas being in the orchestra pit does little to help you appreciate the plot or what is going on but the choruses are rousing and most of the ones they did that night were enjoyable today randy received an email from a colleague who had two tickets to the chicago civic orchestra which she couldn t use and hoped someone might be available to use them we love the civic orchestra and haven t been for a while so we told her we would use them she told us it was laboheme and the marriage of figgaro but it wasn t until we arrived that we discovered it was a collaborative performance by the orchestra and the ryan opera center we sat through 90 minutes of acts 2 and 3 in italian if i had known i would have declined the tickets i do feel more cultured tonight but please no more opera for a few months i promise something more interesting next time something like cleaning out the garage posted by judy at 11 17 pm no comments monday april 23 2012 a day at the beach posted by judy at 12 05 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2012 37 may 6 all in favor of today please raise your hand amateur electrician at work an illinois farm dr quinn a fun easy quilt musical torture april 8 march 12 february 11 2011 122 december 6 november 3 october 8 september 8 august 7 july 11 june 11 may 8 april 14 march 23 february 8 january 15 2010 39 december 13 november 5 october 12 september 9 2009 26 march 3 february 10 january 13 2008 201 december 4 november 11 october 14 september 16 august 4 july 20 june 20 may 23 april 17 march 24 february 21 january 27 books i have read rawhide down wilbur heaven is here nielson jacob t marley bennett in harm s way stanton princess academy hale being george washington beck uncle tom s cabin stowe the devil in the white city 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