Dead of Winter Folk Fest - Saturday, Feb. 27th from noon to 10pm
at Shuga Records, 165 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis

$5 Suggested donation, Family friendly

St. Stephen's Human Services and several Minneapolis Folk Society musicians will join forces to end homelessness by hosting a benefit concert at Shuga Records in Northeast Minneapolis on Saturday, ( Read more... )

I've somewhat defected:

don't look back

I'm not sure what I'll do with this lj yet - I think I'll keep it for personal stuff.  I'd like to keep on my my friends list definately.

For sure archive it so I can relive the good and bad someday.

Operation:  Pickles has begun

Which reminds me, I need to check that jug wine and do something with it as well.

So many good sites to peruse today:

www.v1gallery.com/artist/show/3 - A site where the artist photoshops images of people in New York all doing the same thing but in reality at different times, he just fits them all in the photo to create a unique scene.

http://unemploymenthaikuweekly.com/ - Unemployment Haiku Weekly, although I am no longer ( Read more... )

Since I posted last:

/ I've turned 33.

/ My little lady took off for a grand 2 weeks in Los Angeles.

/ We've been intruded on by squirrels at least 2 more times.

/ I've pretty much found out in roundabout ways who are really my friends and who aren't.  Guess that's the way these things go.

/ I've got the opportunity to have a hand in creating a street ( Read more... )

Okay, so I went out and got some cork grips for my new bars...started to put them on and prompty cracked the first one.  There's not enough room between the cable housing and the bar for the grip to fit in.  I ended up just picking up some cork tape for now.  I just want to get this thing on the road ( Read more... )

/ A 2nd squirrel infestation happened yesterday - less than 6 hours after the caretaker installed new screens.  We've taken some more aggressive steps independent of her.  I'll leave it at that ( Read more... )

Random Observations ( Read more... )

I just got word that squirrels were rampaging in my kitchen this afternoon. I had just made a batch of cookies last night and they broke in through the screen, gnawing their way through, to get to them. Ariana and I saw the little bastards on our back upper porch last night, peering in at us. After discovering a tiny cigarette burn sized hole ( Read more... )

I just dropped the little lady off with her Youth Farm cohorts.  For 3 days and 2 nights in WI at an Organic Farm  - learning, farming, tending to resident animals, etc...
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This week, I got the call regarding her wait list position at the local Social Justice focused school - she got in!  We've found that the ( Read more... )