Articles in the Life in Madison Category
Posted in Life in Madison, Lola, photos on 11 May 2008
Here are photos from Lola’s Spring clipping. It’s always fun to clip her after she has grown out all Winter. It’s like having two dogs in one. We always seem to pick a windy day to clip her coat. I feel a fine patina of fur covering my exposed skin. [...]
Posted in Food, Life in Madison on 20 April 2008
Last night we cooked the first dinner of the season from the Farmer’s Market. All of the food came from the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square except for the Mint Newman-Ohs. We made grilled trout with a parsley pesto (italian parsley, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper), grilled fingerling potatoes [...]
Posted in Ena, Life in Madison, Lola, photos on 13 April 2008
From our walk at Governor Nelson State Park today…
Posted in Life in Madison on 3 April 2008
This is a clean, white wine. A clean finish with a light balance.
Posted in Featured, JimPhelps, Life in Madison on 30 March 2008
Last Fall I bought a Gore Bike Wear Tool jacket that I just love. I cross-country skied in it all Winter. Biked in it all Fall and started up biking again this wintery Spring. It is rain proof enough for rainy rides home (5 miles). It is warm enough for cold [...]
Posted in Life in Madison, random stuff on 8 March 2008
This is just a test of embedding a Slideshare slide show into a Wordpress post. This is not my presentation.
Okay. I’m getting closer. At least I get the frame for the slide show. The one above is using the slideshare imbed in Wordpress link along with a plugin from Joost de [...]
Posted in Food, JimPhelps, Life in Madison on 29 January 2008
We had traditional Chinese and Mongolian music at dinner. It was really cool. I won’t guess at the instruments other than to say, there were three musicians: a woman playing something that looks like a hammered dulcimer, a guy who played bowed stringed instruments and guy who played flutes.
I was listening to [...]
Posted in Featured, Food, JimPhelps, Life in Madison on 28 January 2008
Last night I ate dinner a local Japanese restaurant. I was walking from the hotel down to North Beach. It was nasty, windy, raining so I was thinking that maybe I should turn around and eat at the hotel. I went past this little Japanese restaurant - Hotaru (1059 Powell St, Google [...]
Posted in General, JimPhelps, Life in Madison, random stuff on 22 January 2008
Etsy (http://www.etsy.com) is a store where crafters can sell their objects to the public. Etsy also supports spaces for the crafters to work and share their skills and ideas.
The Etsy website also has cool navigation methods for finding objects. There is a color search system that lets you pick a color to start [...]
Posted in JimPhelps, Life in Madison, photos on 3 January 2008
Had a beautiful late afternoon / evening ski outing with Scott and Erik.
Here are a few pictures from the outing.
