our post fire work digs in westby, wisconsin are in the building behind this sign for ole & lena kaffe hus ( fresh lefse! ). across the street you can see the uff-da mart and dregne’s scandinavian gifts.
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grandma drummer at the coalition drum shop
a patron of unusual age wandered into the coalition drum shop in la crosse, wisconsin and “rocked their faces off”.
tempted by the totally legit fire alarm test.
odin and i were moving stuff out of my temporary post-fire work digs at odin’s school and it really took everything in me to not follow the fire alarm test instructions to see what would happen.
Odin and are moving my work stuff out of post fire squatting space at his school (@ Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School) http://t.co/RJqncu2AjJ
— Eric C. Snowdeal III (@snowdeal) July 15, 2013
fear of being sent to the principle’s office is still a powerful behavior modifier.
day 3278: A Brief Break in The Neverending Hockey Season.
a mere thirteen weeks after The Beginning of The Neverending Hockey Season and twice a week trips to the big city so odin could practice with the heat hockey club, he had his last practice for four weeks off before starting up again in a league that will run right up to when the regular season starts.
he loves it so i guess that makes standing around hockey arenas all year round worthwhile 🙂
( odin’s wearing the red socks near the center of the photo. )
all the pretty horses near odin avenue.
driving back from hockey practice in la crosse with odin, south down county road pc ( aka “rollercoaster road” ) like we’ve done hundreds of times, we call out “hallo odin avenue!” as we pass by and then we pass by these three horses grazing near the road. big and beautiful with manes blowing in the breeze and a hint of blue sky and almost too green pasture. if you look off in the distance you can see the organic valley wind turbines at our distribution center in cashton, wisconsin.
i immediately get that feeling like i have to take a picture. if i don’t it will bug me for the rest of the day. but i don’t actually want to take the time to stop. the photographer in me argues with the part of me that just wants to get home and make dinner but i only make it a quarter mile past the horses before i hit the brakes.
odin looks up. “what are you doing?”
“can you grab my camera?”
odin looks around, “what’d you see?”
“horses.”
“oh, cool. let go take a look.”
for him this is absolutely, completely normal if even a bit mundane.
and as it happens, i couldn’t get all three horses to look up all at the same time and the wind had died down so their manes weren’t blowing, so it didn’t quite turn out like the shot i saw while i was driving by, but that’s the way it goes.
the shot almost didn’t get away 🙂
something wicked this way comes.
driving slowly down a country road overloaded with black locust, a line of clouds appeared and i wondered if maybe things are going to get even trickier.
i was pretty sure a tornado was going to drop out of the line of clouds that stretched as far as the eye could see.
just drove through a line of clouds that i was certain was going to drop a tornado right on top the vehicle.
— Eric C. Snowdeal III (@snowdeal) June 23, 2013
happily, no tornadoes appeared, but it did start dumping down rain which made unloading the wood even more fun!
day 3256: The Neverending Hockey Season goes on and on.
yes, it’s june and The Neverending Hockey Season just keeps going and going and going.
odin’s having a great time. i’m not sure where he got his love of running drills but he likes them as much as playing games which are still plenty fun too ( he’s in the red socks ).
we’re all going to be a little bummed when the the heat hockey club season ends in a few weeks even though it’ll mean i get to spend a little less time in the omnicenter in shivering in my shorts.