WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remeber the Magic-Pt 2

[calmom]

I had to pop back after checking Sukie's garden. Very cool! It has motivated me to go back into the yard and forget about my spring rolls. Thanks!
Lisa

 

[Tink rules]

Hey Ian...

Can you ask Sukie to come to my house and plant the rest of my basil??? I can't seem to get the garden in this year and he looks like he's just about done...right???

 

[HollyTyler]

Home Sweet Home, A Tour of Lincoln Square

OK, so I had too much time on my hands this weekend. Yesterday I went out and did a photo tour of our neighborhood, Lincoln Square.

As I have said before, I have come to realize that we live in a much more urban area that others here on the board (you probably can't get much more urban).

So, camera in hand, I set out to do a "photo essay."

It was actually quite an interesting exercise, since I tend not to notice much around here. It caused me to look at where we live with fresh eyes.

I had to walk huge distances for this photo essay.

The photographs were all taken in about a 3 block stretch from our house --- I walked all of 1 block south of our house and then 3 blocks north of our house, however, who am I to complain?

We live in Lincoln Square, which is an old German Neighborhood (http://lincolnsquare.org/document/guide_history.php).


So, without further ado, here is a link to the photo tour, I was even particularly industrious and wrote captions for all of the photos:

http://iankh.smugmug.com/gallery/5223034_2zsF7#317315285_KvSYb

Ian, I'm loving the photos so far, but haven't gotten too far yet because Tyler's looking at them with me. When we saw the picture of Mrs. Fezziweg in your garage, Tyler told me he meant to ask you & Sukie on the cruise, "Is your car called a Smart car because it's really, really smart and can drive itself?" I had shown him pics of your car way back before the cruise and he agrees with me how cute it is.

 

[nskjerven]

Hmmm. Don't you have a list of chores for the children to do? How could they have any free time if they are busy doing chores. Idle hands are the devil's workshop, or so they say.

I would imagine that there must be some livestock to take to market? Wouldn't that keep Wilson busy? And Molly, she should be spending most of the day churning, spinning and then weaving cloth for woolen goods?

(I'll have to see if we have any openings in Camp Sukie).

ya got me there....molly is signed up for Artisan's Girl Scout Day camp, she will be working with paint, clay and tapesty, I'll be sure to post some pics of her "work"

Wilson, hmmm....nintendo ds animal crossing, not the samething as the farm is it? He is back on his task to finish HP series before the end of the year (before school starts) that was his task to earn the Wii last August. He read #1-4 in the school year , he is on #5. We bought him a new one for the cruise (he was reading Molly's handmedowns, but #5 was trashed)...he didn't crack the cover on the boat. That darn cruise turned him into a non reading lump.

 

[nskjerven]

Yikes! Is THAT what they're asking?!?!

(How goofy is it that I have to find out from someone in California what they're asking for the house across the street!)

Gotta love and use the net, Ian.

I bought my first house 1990 for $168K, it now would sell for over $500K. I don't know how anyone starting out can afford to live in the bay area and buy. We are keeping this house for our retirement fund. I figure it will increase invalue way more than any other kind of investment we could make. I was thinking the other day that if Molly or Wilson stay in town for college we can boot them over to our rental and have some peace and quiet for ourselves

 

[HollyTyler]

I'm sort of with Paul, and sort of with you too.

I would think it's important to let kids play video games but limit their time on them, lest they not go outside at all. Still, it's better than just watching mindless TV, though I think parents usually limit kids' time doing that too? Don't they?

But then what do I know?

With us, the TV is pretty much on only during breakfast while I'm taking a shower and Tyler's eating (I eat when I get to work). And it's only PBS, no cable. Other than that, he either helps me do stuff around the house or we play or he plays, etc., or we're on the go or something. In the winter, TV is on more because I hate going out in the cold.

 

[iankh]

NEVER MOVE OUT OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!
Do they have a soft serve ice cream place??? I could stay there if they had chocolate sprinkles...

I don't think there's a soft serve place in the neighborhood ... come to think of it, soft serve is just not very popular in Chicago.

It's popular in Wisconsin ... frozen custard. There's a great place up there called Custard's Last Stand.

One of our favorite ice cream parlors is not in our neighborhood, but is in another neighborhood, Bucktown (on the Blue Line), which is about 10 minutes away by car. It is Margie's Candies and has been there since the 1920's and has never been remodeled since about 1935.

Margie had been working there until about 10 years ago or so, when she passed on to that great ice cream parlor in the sky. Her son, George now runs it, and let me tell you, George is no spring chicken. Margie was still working there into her mid nineties.

But is is a Chicago institution and someplace we take visitors.

We just force ourselves to have a chocolate turtle sundae. Just to be polite you understand:

http://chicagoist.com/2004/06/16/a_closer_look_at_margies_candies.php

 

[HollyTyler]

Yikes! Is THAT what they're asking?!?!

(How goofy is it that I have to find out from someone in California what they're asking for the house across the street!)

 

[HollyTyler]

NEVER MOVE OUT OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!
Do they have a soft serve ice cream place??? I could stay there if they had chocolate sprinkles...

If the renters upstairs ever move out, I think many of us would love to move in!

 

[JLSE50]

"Hi, I'm Cheri and I'm a boxaholic"....

You are among friends here....

Jan

 

[HollyTyler]

Ian, loved the toy pics and Tyler went nuts over the jungle hospital! Oh my goodness! I really like toy stores like that.

 

[nskjerven]

you know I went and checked out that ice cream link....says you get a free waffle cone for straight A report card.....

YUP!!!

MOLLY GOT STRAIGHT A's this trimester Proud Mama

 

[ibouncetoo]

Framed Cruise Stuff

I said I would post photos of the stuff from the cruise I got framed.

First is the Ducky lithograph.

Just got the dreaded red 'x' here.

Home Sweet Home, A Tour of Lincoln Square

LOVED IT! The apartment building looks just like the one I lived in on Waveland, near the lake...a third floow walk-up. Oh to be young again and able to race up those stairs. Well, except after a night on Rush Street! I also lived on Lincoln, but farther south (and east)...but I think I've mentioned that before.

One day, I will be all organized. I have a feeling it will be when I'm leaving in a one room apartment in an old folks home and all my kids have taken all my valuables. I hope they will bring me spring rolls when they come visit.

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[HollyTyler]

I hate to see this wonderful day come to an end. It was SO beautiful outside today! Warm, but not hot. After church, we played on Tyler's playset, then did yardwork for quite some time. He was a big help getting branches from the back yard up to the road for pickup. I meant to mow the abandoned house front yard because it's an eyesore, but the bees were too bad. So we took a break for lunch, did laundry, went to the Michigan Historical Museum, went to the public library (where he for some reason chose a book on nuclear waste....yuck), came home for dinner and enjoying the beautiful weather in our front yard. I've been hanging here catching up with posts while Tyler's been playing with firetrucks & ambulances & rescuing people. But now it's time to read his bedtime book because he's supposed to be asleep now. Oh well......so we'll have a struggle to get up on time in the morning....it's worth it for such a great day!

 

[HollyTyler]

you know I went and checked out that ice cream link....says you get a free waffle cone for straight A report card.....

YUP!!!

MOLLY GOT STRAIGHT A's this trimester Proud Mama

WAY TO GO MOLLY!!! I remember those days. How smart I used to be. Wonder what happened.

 

[iankh]

Gotta love and use the net, Ian.

I bought my first house 1990 for $168K, it now would sell for over $500K. I don't know how anyone starting out can afford to live in the bay area and buy. We are keeping this house for our retirement fund. I figure it will increase invalue way more than any other kind of investment we could make. I was thinking the other day that if Molly or Wilson stay in town for college we can boot them over to our rental and have some peace and quiet for ourselves

I remember back in the 1970's and 1980's when the Bay area was not as crazy as it is now. I remember friends being able to find housing out there.

Here in Chicago, I don't know how people do it now. My first condo cost $42K back in the mid-1980's.

Believe me, when we bought the house in 1991 it did not cost ANYTHING like the prices now, nor was the neighborhood like it is now. It was just a nice, quiet working class neighborhood back then, with ordinary businesses. At the time we lamented that there were almost no restaurants in the neighborhood, now there are 96 of them!

When we moved here, friends thought we were nuts because we were moving to the middle of nowhere.

We ended up here because there was a supermarket in walking distance, and good public transportation which we needed because Sukie doesn't drive (let's face it, the only way we could get closer to public transportation is if they start running the El through our living room).

It has gotten so crazy around here that people are buying old houses like ours for the land, tearing them down and building million dollar new ones.

 

[iankh]

Hey Ian...

Can you ask Sukie to come to my house and plant the rest of my basil??? I can't seem to get the garden in this year and he looks like he's just about done...right???

The garden! He's become very protective of it this year.

We paid another visit to Lowes yesterday. I was lucky and escaped with only a hose and sprinkler.

 

[iankh]

If the renters upstairs ever move out, I think many of us would love to move in!

You have a great view of the El from up there!

Which reminds me, we recently had a problem with our satellite dish. I called DirecTV and the service rep asked me to go on the roof and check the dish. I told him it was 2 stories up.

He insisted I go check it. I asked him if he would like to hold while I went down the street, paid for the El and then took a ride so I could go past my house and look at it for him.

 

[nskjerven]

loved the tour Ian. I thought about how I could do that for here and thought again...boring...there is something special about living in the heart of a walking city. everything for us is a drive. except going to Molly's school 2 blocks or the park 4 blocks, but even that we drive to them most of the time.

When we were in Acapulco walking around I mentioned that I LOVE city vacations. I think Scott replied, yes the street polution, grime, crowds....yup I love it!!!! I see the city as the perfect vacation, but I don't think I would want to live there all the time. love my privateness of the suburbs, and if and when we hit the beach hopefully I'll love not seeing a neighbor out my windows...

 

[iankh]

you know I went and checked out that ice cream link....says you get a free waffle cone for straight A report card.....

YUP!!!

MOLLY GOT STRAIGHT A's this trimester Proud Mama

That is wonderful. She can get a free ice cream cone. It will only cost a plane ticket.