monday

woke, walked north to coffee, then back, with seth and di. 2 miles roundtrip.

paul was at our house, nailing our trim, when we returned. di and i ran dowtown to a quick doctor's appointment, then over to the field museum, so she could show me more of the behind-the-scenes stuff. the collection of birds is insane. spent some time with a pileated woodpecker, the skinned-but-otherwise intact body of a heron, a HUGE great grey owl, a screech owl, and dozens of others.

we spent way too much time browsing the gift shop.

on the way home, we stopped to pick up the new "chicago" magazine, which has a picture of a monk parakeet which diana had prepared for the museum collection, as well as some CDs.

at home, paul and greg were kicking ass on the trim and drywall patching.