We went down to Chicago a couple weekends ago and toured this house along with several others on Astor Street.
In the same day we went to a formal fundraiser put on by my WEC (Weekend College) student, Lacey. Here we are - not bad for having gotten back from a full day in Chicago about 45 minutes before this picture was taken.
John took a rare day off for his birthday and we went up to Kohler for the day with a friend to visit a really cool private wildlife preserve where we had a fantastic lunch in front of the fireplace at the lodge on a cold and rainy day. Here we are by the river that runs through the property:
We've been enjoying the fireplace A LOT. This is John building our first fire of the season. We still haven't turned on our furnace. It is fixed now, but now we are seeing if we can hold out until Nov. 1 before turning it on. While the highs are only in the 60s during the day, the house warms up with the fireplace and John and I have taken to dressing warmly around the house.
John has been giving an insane number of lectures of late. He did one on Prairie Architecture last week including this house, he did another on the Mansions around the Pabst Thursday night, we went up to Sauk City (north of Madison) last week for another on the architects of the Mansion. What I find amazing is that he never references notes - he just remembers all of this stuff.
So, I better get back to work, but just wanted to update everyone on our crazy October.
Jodi
3 comments:
Hooray October! Happy (belated) Birthday, John. I was thinking the other day that October held more important birthdays than any other month for our family. John, Gar & dad are all October birthdays. A TOAST! To October! And the many important people born in this fine month!
Other great October birthdays include Grandfather Ray Brueggemann, Oct. 13th, and Uncle David Bartley October 4th. Then Nathan Brueggemann has an October 15th birthday, and of course "White Cane Day" is October 15th also. And finally, October is topped off with Halloween. What a month!! What other connections are out there?!
Mom reminds me that I forgot Ed "Slim" Arens who celebrates his birthday on October 15th also. And of course, we now know that October 21 is a significant day in the life of one of the animals on our planet. And of course, the day I met your Mother was October 1, 1966 at the Missouri School for the Blind. She was cute then and is still cute!! Love ya, Dad
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