The Impossible Year

Tag: polaroid

  • Dr. Kruse of Northside Foot & Ankle, 13 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film So, this post is astoundingly lame (pun intended) but this is my podiatrist. I stopped by his office on Wednesday to pick up a new pair of orthodics because my insurance gives me one a year for free. He’s the third…

  • Jess and Her Walkie-talkies, 12 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Our friend Jess came by and brought walkie-talkies so we could try out the range and possibly communicate from home to home. The advertised range was 2.5 miles. They make it about a mile. Still fun though.

  • My Desk, 11 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Being the nerd that I am, I spent Monday re-organizing and cable managing our home office while listening to Howard Zinn’s ‘The People’s History of the United States’ on audiobook.

  • Mother’s Day Meals, 10 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Given that Beth Ann’s parents are in Michigan and mine are in New York, we weren’t able to really celebrate Mother’s Day in the ways we would have liked this year. As such, Beth Ann made sourdough waffles from scratch (in our Millenium Falcon wafflemaker!)…

  • Spoken Cafe, 9 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Community is essential to me. One of the main reasons I wanted to live in Ravenswood and not downtown was because I wanted to know the local people who work in my neighborhood. Spoken is a little cafe that is a surprisingly big part of my…

  • Gidding’s Plaza – Lombard Lamp, 8 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film The Lincoln Square neighborhood is one of Chicago’s biggest German neighborhoods and tucked away in a corner of Giddings Plaza is a Lombard Lamp, which is an exact replica of ones found on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg Germany since 1869. It…

  • May The Fourth Be With You, 4 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Last year Beth Ann and I went to Disneyland and splurged on some custom lightsabers. This year we had a mock dual on the lawn.

  • Marla and Care Packages, 3 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film I put together care packages of cookies and art and biked them to friend’s homes. Beth Ann put a Hawaiian shirt on the dog in celebration of the spring weather.

  • Honey, Bourbon, Bacon Fat, Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies, 2 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film I have been working on this recipe for years. This batch was nearly perfect. The time has finally come to make it public. Coming later this week. 

  • Melissa Pierce, 1 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Melissa sent out a tweet that she had bought too much flour and offered some for anyone who might want it. I took her up on this and biked up to her place to pick some up. I will be making batches of cookies…