sunday

yesterday diana and i went to the evanston farmers' market on our bikes, spent what little cash we had, then came home.

i went out to my folks' house to help my dad remove the trunk of an oak tree which had fallen into the neighbors' yard during the major storms a month or two ago, while di stayed home to draw. i swung an axe all afternoon, and brought home a civic full of freshy split oak to stack in the near-full garage. the wood stove will be well-fed this year. i split this stuff small enough that hopefully it will be somewhat dry by late winter.

later, i went to an extremely pleasant small dinner at john and jennifer kenzie's house. fiona, their three-year-old, is beautiful and hilarious.

today, i walked seth to the coffee shop while di went to the gym, then met up with jason, hilary and the twins in our yard for trade-offing some masonry tools, dianogah money, a tiny bike, and some prints.

di, seth and i ran out to the western suburbs to see her folks, then stopped to see my grandmother, since we missed her 98th birthday last weekend (while dianogah was in iowa city).

picked up 'house of leaves', by mark danielewski, which was recommended to me last night at the kenzie's house.

uneventful non-working weekend.