Quiet Week

Not too much happened last week to post about.  We enjoyed relatively nice weather for the week which melted most of the snow on the ground, at least until Sunday.  Jo was in New York until Tuesday and had a nice time and an uneventful flight getting home.  While in New York she was able to enjoy some of her favorite runs - although Central Park was a little far - and catch up with some old Pfizer friends. 

We spent Friday night eating pizza and enjoying some of our taped shows.  Then Saturday we got out for a long run to take advantage of the last day of warm temperatures.  We spent the afternoon watching the Badger/Illini basketball game in which our Illini where unsuccessful - but our Badger's were (can't lose there).  Later that evening we joined Rosalie and Tim at Ryan Braun's Graffito restaurant for dinner.  Food was excellent and I really enjoyed my Veal Marsala - although I never did figure out how they made the Marsala taste be stronger in the mushrooms than the veal.  After a delicious dessert of caramel bread pudding we headed to the Rep theater to watch Sense and Sensibility.  I thought the set design was very creative since they mimicked multiple venues and buildings on a single stage with minimal changes.  The acting and plot did a great job of capturing the book and era.  Was a great evening except for the occasional checks on the Packer's game during the intermission and at the end of the show in which we saw they weren't going to make it further in the playoffs.  It will certainly make the sports pages smaller for a couple of weeks.

Saturday night and into Sunday it sleeted so we awoke to a fresh coat of snow/ice on everything, which has made footing somewhat treacherous all week.  After doing some yoga our key activity for the day was planning several of our vacations for this year - always fun to think about escaping when it is cold and dreary outside.

The rest of the week I worked on patching and painting cracks in the walls.   With a 95 year old house you can imagine we get quite a few of these and some present some interesting repair challenges.  I'll be puttering away at these for another couple of weeks as I move through the house - amazing how many cracks have already reappeared after my painting last year.  But, the real highlight of my week was coming home and seeing a hawk/falcon sitting on our back bench enjoying a mid-day meal (I think it was some bird given all the feathers on the ground).  It just sat there quite contently while I snapped a few photos and moved into our screened in porch.