Dancing Across the Planet

Sometimes videos just make me happy. This is one of them.

Read the back story, it’s well worth it.

Thanks to Tami for sending this one my way.

Posted on July 1, 2008
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You Definitely Want the Mint with It

You Can\'t Get Soup Like That Just Anywhere

This soup was on the daily lunch menu at my favorite restaurant the other day. One of our group got the soup — she said the mint was a nice counterbalance to the other main ingredient.

Posted on June 30, 2008
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I Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day

This sign cracked me up. It’s on 4th Street and Fairmount in a bay window that juts into the sidewalk. I submitted it to Passive Aggressive Notes.com. (We didn’t see the cat, and even though I was tempted to bang on the window to make it come out, I suppressed the urge.)

Posted on June 24, 2008
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We Planted a Sequoia This Weekend

I wrote a note to the people who will be living in our house a hundred years from now explaining why we planted that redwood tree where we did. The sequoia will grow to at least 100 feet tall and have a 40-foot spread. The people in our house in 2108 will probably wonder why we did it. Here’s my note to them:

We bought that sequoia for $35. It’s about 8 feet tall right now — just a wisp. We wanted to create a frame in front of the hawthorn trees, which won’t last more than a few years. The sequoia is perfectly situated on a flat spot on the hill. The way I figure it, the hill rises 30 feet behind it, so it will be quite a few years before that magnificent tree pokes its head above the rise. By the time you’re reading this, the tree will be towering over the hill, the tallest tree in the area.

We’re underplanting the sequoia with crepe myrtle. Three of them, in fact. The variety we got, Red Burst, will grow to 10-12 feet with an equal spread. Probably by the time you read this in 2108, those crepe myrtle will be huge with a gnarly trunk. You’ll marvel at plants 100 years old.

There are lots of other trees we planted, too. The red maples. The weeping cherry. Two other cherry trees. White pines. Austrian pines. Crabapples. Cedars. Those three river birches that are already 30 feet tall now. Bradford pears. And this year I’m going to plant a grove of apple trees.

I hope you thank us. We were thinking of you.

Posted on June 23, 2008
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He’s Uncle Joe and He’s Movin’ Kinda Slow

I used to like to go places. I liked hopping on airplanes and seeing new cities. Now, with the state of air travel, I’d be just fine in my own backyard.

I have to fly to Milwaukee today. Really, it should be fine. I’m on Midwest Airlines, which is a pretty civilized way of traveling. They advertise that all their seats are first class seats. They are, but I don’t have an assigned seat. And it’s a little plane, one of those with 22 rows. The flight takes an extra 30 minutes or so over the regular, “real,” airplanes. Plus, I have to go through security. Get to the airport. Ugh, I’m winding up already. Plus, at the end of the day, it’s Milwaukee and I’ll just be in client meetings from dusk to dawn.

Yep, I’m getting old and crotchety. I’m Uncle Joe, moving kinda slow, at the junction.

Posted on June 18, 2008
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