Author: doug

I saw this truck on my way to work this morning.

What I want to know is… what’s an R&R crossing?  Relaxation & Recreation?  Rock & Roll?  It makes no sense!

There are many items in our house that will be easy or routine for our movers… couches, books, file cabinets: everybody has those.  We do have some unusual items, however.  Not least among these is my printing press and movable type.  There are thousands of individual pieces of lead type in maybe 10 type cases; if these letters fall out of the cases or get mixed up with one another it will take weeks of effort to put right. 

The solution is courtesy of one of the really museum-y (as opposed to children-y) people at Lis’s work: stuff the cases full of fiber batting and wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap.  I hope it works!

One quarter of the way through the project, today’s post echoes many of my early posts… it is about one of my favorite subjects: FOOD!

Tonight’s (and tomorrow’s) dinner is baby back ribs, dry-rubbed and grill-smoked.  On a weeknight I don’t really have time to let them turn into real BBQ, but they are tasty nonetheless.

Lis went and picked up change-of-address forms from the post office today.

We evidently need 5 of them, because in this computerized age the postal service can’t reliably understand that Doug and Douglas are the same person, or that middle initials are generally optional.

The first daffodils of spring!

This particular variety of daffodil always shows up pretty early, but still it’s nice to see.

I bought moving supplies today… a cheap hand truck, bubble wrap, and packing paper.

Lis found us a gas dryer on Craigslist.  Her moms helped us deliver it to the storage unit, where it will stay until we move.

The packing has only just begun in earnest.  The plan is to use the guest room to stage boxes that are done.

We have already done most of the going-through-and-tossing last summer when we loaded up the storage unit. So this part shouldn’t be so bad — just the usual “Where is <item X>? I must have packed it already.”

Parker is helping!

OK, so they’re not traditional ingredients in a lamb vindaloo curry, but I think broccoli and kale do well in this dish.