Author: doug

Once again, the view from my office’s big conference room is compelling, especially in the early morning light.

Lis and I went for a walk down by the river with the Murphy/Elzweig household today.  What a beautiful day for a walk.  All the rain yesterday prompted these mushrooms to do their thing:

I made two batches of biscotti today.  I take these to work to have at breakfast — they help keep me out of Dunkin’ Donuts. 

Marc & Michaela (and Calvin, not shown) are in from Chicago, staying with us for a week while they visit with area friends & relatives.

The view from my office at work as the sun went down. 

I thought this was a great name for a mobile pet-grooming business.

Once again, the view from the big conference room at work is pretty spectacular.

We had an insulation contractor come today and button up a few areas of our house that needed it.  My picture today was going to be of that process … insulation-blowing tubes running all over the place, guys carrying bats of insulation, etc. 

But they also managed to knock into the pipe that feeds water into our house and cause it to spring a leak!  Totally not their fault — it had been “temporarily” repaired previously and was ready to go at any minute.  Fortunately the town came out and was able to do another temporary fix (for free!).  This was really more excitement than I really needed today.

At some point — could be next year, could be 10 years from now — we will need to have the front lawn ripped up and the whole pipe replaced.  But for now I say — thanks Newton Public Works!

I spent the entire day inside doing uninteresting stuff (on purpose; it was marvelous) and so today’s picture is simply a boggle at the concept of accumulating snow in mid-October.

After helping Greg & Jen paint, I went to the BeerAdvocate Belgian beer fest in Boston today with a bunch of people (I feel like they could have come up with a “b” word for “fest”).  It was fun, though I felt it was too crowded & loud to really have a conversation with the brewers, or to get to know any of the beers well.  Still, there were a couple of standouts that will be making an appearance in my beer fridge soon.