Pot stickers

Forty-one potstickers from scratch (save for the store-purchased wrappers). Bonus! What to do with some blueberries that need to be eaten? —

Twenty years

Twenty years ago this morning I woke — always later on a Tuesday because I had a late evening at the office and would stay home in the morning — to Bob Edwards on NPR telling us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I turned on the television in the living room.

Limoncello

This year’s limoncello bounty: One bottle is already given away, so this represents most of the 1.5 L. It’s good stuff! And I recycled some Vom Fass bottles.

New gate

Upping the home security details, one lock at a time. Classic Metalcraft did a superior job with this one!

Banana tree

My friend Jay has parked his banana trees in my garden this summer. One is now flowering. I’m loving the daily changes as it opens.

More signs

More signs that I really am no longer Chair of the Department of Music at Webster University:

Two funnies

On this Labor Day . . . .

Leona

Leona Schaefer gained her eternal reward this week. I think this photo may have been the last time I saw her, two years ago on a chilly May Sunday in Eastertide, at St. Mary’s Church in Kansas City. John sang in the choir, and Leona and I sat together in that historic nave. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Pastoral-Notice-for-Leona-Schaefer.html?soid=1110058619291&aid=OfuLtfNtvV8 The

Difficult decision

I had to make a difficult decision this week: whether or not to teach in person an adult voice student whom I know has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. With just hours to go before the lesson, I made the call. No in–person lessons until an all-clear is sounded, or you are vaccinated. I explained

A funny

I’ll just leave this here, and thank Duke Ellington and Irving Mills.