Rosanne Cash - The List Tour

We took the train into the city on Friday, January 29th to hear Rosanne Cash at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. She is touring to support her new record, "The List." It's all traditional country and folk songs--not an original tune on the record. But she sang some of her stuff, too.

It was just her and her husband, John Leventhal--no band. I was a little bummed by that, but I got over it.

I had posted a couple of videos from the show, but they got pulled down--guess Rosanne couldn't handle two 30-second clips from her show being posted on my family blog. Makes me rethink my enthusiasm for her.

Happy Crusty Night!

It's been kind of hard to get back into the swing of things after that long hiatus, but we're trying.

Two weekends ago on January 23rd, we celebrated National Crusty Day with Glenn and Marlis at our house.

Lori cooked, and everything had a crust. We had deep fried mushroom appetizers, French Onion Soup with a bread and cheese crust, a homemade turkey pot pie with cranberry crust, and a raspberry-blackberry cobbler.

How did you celebrate National Crusty Day?

Empty Nesters Back

So, back in October, our nest got de-emptified, pretty much bringing the rockin' to a screeching halt. And it stayed unempty until well after New Year's Day.

So we didn't have much time or energy for posting to Empty Nesters Rock.

But now, finally, we're back on our own and starting to make plans and to have time and energy for blogging again. I don't know if we'll ever go back and revisit the last quarter of 2009 or not, but we will try and at least pick up here and go forward.

We do hope that all of you had a happy holiday season--we did.

New Baby

We visited Sam at Bradley for Parents Weekend, and forgot the camera! But, while there, we took Sam out to eat for lunch and dinner Saturday, and brunch on Sunday.

And Saturday afternoon we took part in a silent auction to benefit St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, and we scored a DY jersey for Sam, and a nice portable gas grill for me.

Lori actually got the grill by sneaking her arm around a couple of people at the last minute and putting in a bid $1 over theirs.

Here's a picture of the new grill in action.

Halloween

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A couple of weeks before Halloween, we went into the city to see a production featuring my friend and colleague, Keith Green. It was a fun play about a group of psychic mediums/scholars, written and produced by the troupe and put on in a theater space above a mechanic shop on the NW side. That's Keith in character. Before the show, we stopped in at an Irish pub nearby for fish and chips--that's our waitress, but I can't remember her name. Let's call her Connie--there's lot's of Connies in Chicago.

A couple of weeks later we saw Richard III at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier--a good, but not great, production. Second only to Macbeth in the number of murders in a Shakespeare play. No pictures of this--sorry.

Finally, you see my Halloween night get-up, spider puppets on each hand--to hand out candy. We spooked a few young-uns with the outfit and with XM Radio's sound effects channel and our black cat!

On the Road Again

Heading home on Tuesday, we caught the noon ferry, then rain into overcast skis and some rain in the northern LP.

We stopped at our favorite restaurant in Lake City for a late lunch, then got back into Chicago around 7:30.

Fall on the Island, Part 5

Our last day before heading back to Chicago.

We had tea, Lori went for a run, took some pictures, and we did a few more small chores like moving wood around, closing windows, etc.