Cruising in the Caribbean

December 25, 2007

Dave’s grandfather John loves cruise vacations. He has been on something like 30 cruises with his wife. They couldn’t cruise at the end, her Alzheimer’s made traveling challenging and unsafe. Since her death, we’ve gone on two cruises with him. The first was especially hard for him, as all the memories of their time [...]

Thanksgiving highlights

November 23, 2007

My nephew
My niece
My brother-in-law’s deep fried turkey
My sister’s homemade non-canned green bean casserole (from Cook’s Illustrated – subscription required)
Hot and numbing beef roll in our take-out meal from Tasty China in Marietta
Dave’s bacon, avocado, leftover turkey sandwich, a play on Zingerman’s Tarb’s Tenacious Tenure. Hingerman’s Barb’s Tenacious Tenure anyone?
Going to the Marietta YMCA with my [...]

Almost stranded

September 23, 2007

We flew up north this weekend and stopped to clear Canadian customs in Sarnia. After a brief stop, the engine of our Cessna-182 had uncharacteristic trouble starting. We got it started, and continued up the coast of Lake Huron to Tobermory.
On our return, the cold start at Tobermory airport was easy, but we had worse [...]

Whose bone is this, anyway?

September 5, 2007

Mystery bone – from above, originally uploaded by dunrie.
I have a doctorate in biology. But I studied plants and insects. And neither plants nor insects have bones, so I’m officially excused from having to know what this is.
We first thought it was a cranium, but it didn’t seem to have the characteristics I’d need [...]

Striped Bass log

September 4, 2007

The big one, originally uploaded by dunrie.
My sister-in-law is doing graduate research on Christmas Island in the Pacific. The food choices are limited (tuna, tuna, and more tuna), and she has a funny blog entry about the forms of tuna they’ve eaten, including tuna salisbury steak and tuna patties with gravy.
Well, Dave and Nate both [...]

The way to travel

March 21, 2007

My husband and I just returned from a one-week trip to Austria. My husband works for an Austrian firm, he travels to the head office several times a year, and we have often spoke about me coming along for a visit, maybe to the wine country south of Graz, maybe to the Alps to ski…

Now, [...]

The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens

February 12, 2007

I have spent a fair bit of time in south Florida, my family purchased a condo there in the late 70s. When I was a kid, we’d visit go to Parrot Jungle, Monkey Jungle, the snake place (Serpentarium?), Lion Country Safari, all the crazy kid places. We also spent a fair bit of time in [...]