Time flies as March rolls on through. Just a couple of photos today . . .

Taking flight – near my place along Amazon Creek last evening.

Our device that we use to take payment for the posters we print died during Review Week, which made for some interesting days. And March Madness is *a thing* in our house. Hence the screen time set up. Brackets were filled out, and many buzzer beaters were witnessed. Fun was / is being had!

The underbelly of the beast.

Screens, screens and more screens. Plus guinea pigs and a couple of toes.

We’ve had some things going on around here lately: Jonah dislocated both knee caps, Pinecone and Acorn are aging and it is noticeable, and a plethora of combination locks!

Yeah, Jonah dislocated both knee caps while running around the ballpark a few backs and this week an MRI was done to see the damage. I thought this rug was interesting (are magnets really still shaped that way?).

As Nora gets busier with her teen life, I’ve been helping these fellas as their DoorDasher lately. They are our pandemic pets, Pinecone (left) and Acorn (right) and, well, guinea pigs live from six to eight years. We’re six years in and they are funny ones. They recognize our footsteps or when the fridge door opens and when they hear that, they squeal like crazy for some grub.

Padlocks on a cart! We manage a set of lockers and between terms we have to rotate the locks to new lockers so that people can check them out. Spring term starts on Monday so this has been happening at work. I liked the pattern is all.

“April, come she will . . . .” A few photos from recent things going on. A week from now, though, I’ll be in Stockholm, Sweden, meeting up with my friend Kurt as we head south to Copenhagen to attend a concert being performed by Paul Simon. I’ve always enjoyed his music and am very much looking forward to this show. I just finished listening to the audio book that Malcolm Gladwell did called, “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon.” Some of my earliest childhood memories are hearing Simon and Garfunkel being played on the radio in the house I grew up in, too. Paul Simon is such an amazing and dynamic creator and artist. Plus meatballs in Sweden. And whatever else happens . . . .

Nora is learning to drive and was practicing backing into a parking space. She backed over our styrofoam spigot covers (I do not have traffic cones). A friend once told me that “practice makes adequate,” which I find to be about right.

The Eugene Emeralds season began and we accidentally met up with our pal Richard, who just happened to be twinning with Jonah (they did not coordinate this). The opening night game was good fun with a walk-off home run win for the Ems, plus a “dad” hat giveaway and well, it seems like I can never have enough caps in my life.

A 3-D printed townscape that I stumbled upon in the College of Design’s main building, Lawrence Hall. I was giving a tour to a new student employee and we found this and I thought it was pretty cool. There’s a small duck out there too, if you look really closely. #GoDucks, as we say around here . . .