JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 7hThe style of parenting exhibited today at SFO is distinctly lackadaisical. 000
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have three things to report on the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. 1. It’s extremely hot today; high of 86. 2. There are a quarter of a million hippies and hippie wannabes in Golden Gate Park, at least half over 60. 3. Nudity is legal here. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The situation this afternoon during Los Lobos’s set. I regret not taking video of the swirl. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the best fish taco, at Tacos El Patron on Fillmore. 040
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Heading off soon to a 3-day outdoor music event attended by 750,000 people. The things we introverts do for love of the person who mostly lets us hang out in the porch with a book. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Guthrie’s “Waiting for Godot” is solid, with a very good cast. Jim Lichtsheidl is especially good. But I really miss Jeune Lune’s swing-for-the-fences take-no-prisoners approach to theater. 270
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now THAT’S a mayor! Instead of preserving and maintaining the status quo for landlords and wealthy donors and drawing a veil of secrecy over police department over-spending, do something meaningful for Minneapolitans and our cultural institutions. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just did our own Kingfield garden tour. In the gray light of late morning after all the rain, people’s gardens are looking vibrant in the last days of summer. 011
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Finn Fest was more entertaining than the MODE Festival. Meaning several dozen reserved Finnish Americans are more fun than several empty blocks of Nicollet Mall punctuated by cop cars used as road blocks. 100
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Made turkey chili this morning with cannellini beans and home-grown cherry tomatoes. Also it’s extra spicy because allergies. I just need some Mezcal. For later of course. 030
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Any of my Kingfielders know why we’ve been regaled by sirens all afternoon??? 101
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Finished a fiction book today that was so delightful I can only follow it up with a teeny book on physics and Virginia Woolf’s last novel. 020
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Some of my favorite creative luminaries are in the Twin Cities this week and next! I have tickets to see two of them and hope to see the third as well! 000
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Okay, which of you has a cat named Juice Box? I think I need another photo. 210
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Monarch Festival was a delight! So many tiny and bigger people dancing in butterfly wings. 050
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Anybody know what was happening at Incarnation Church today? We saw people in all-black formal attire arriving around 11am and some leaving at 3pm. I was thinking wedding (can the couple demand everyone wear black now?) , but four hours?!!? Fancy wake?? Wha? 100
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seems like this disaster was predestined. Or maybe it mourns its own occurrence. 040
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If anyone needs some chairs this sale on the 3800 block of Lyndale has a couple…dozen. Plus four mannequin heads? 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My favorite grated raw heirloom tomato sauce in my favorite Teiko Tanaka bowl. Waiting for the hot cooked pasta and that moment when the scent of garlic, basil, and fresh farmer’s market tomatoes hits. 020
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I was once trapped in Ye Olde Mill in a boatful of coworkers. Highly recommend “Escape from Ye Olde Mill” as a team building exercise. 131
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It saddens me greatly that when someone here refers to an “ignorant racist buffoon,” I have to wonder which one of tens of thousands they are referring to. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Well, the replacement cabinet doors estimate came in. It is in actual mathematical fact 25% of (aka 75% less than) the online estimate from the “what replacement cabinet doors cost in your region” website. SFO, here we come! 000
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Door County peaches and sheep’s milk yogurt on Beyond the Breadbox honey wheat bread. 060
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I didn’t get cheese curds at the Fair yesterday so where should I get them in Minneapolis instead? #skiptheline 200
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Oddly menacing pretzel. Which I think has sticks put into it upside down now that I’m looking at it. @jrnorton.bsky.social @billchilds.bsky.social @amyrea.bsky.social 270
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My hair looks perfect. Good Fair trip with @heavytable.com folks today. Results on Substack tomorrow for our lovely subscribers. 120
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Cottage cheese, rye crisp, cherry tomatoes, and acetaminophen. Pregaming State Fair eatathon 020
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Kensington Breakfast Blend is brewing and my State Fair backpack is ready. 120
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Look for a dozen food nerds in matching t-shirts. One is me. 020
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I used to quote her in seminars on branding/cutting through the bs. 081
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Just bought tickets to see David Strathairn at the Guthrie in “Waiting for Godot.” I’ve had a mad crush on him since “Brother From Another Planet.” 140
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Neighbors are having a S’mores fest tonight. This is coincidentally not unrelated to my previous post. 000
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Just watched “The Menu” with Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Dark. Hilarious. Still processing. 010
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It’s so great that the company that made our kitchen cabinets twelve years ago is still in Thorpe,WI and happy to make replacement doors for us. Twelve. Years. 050
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Michele Tafoya thinks the Halloween Blizzard is a myth. 030
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Thinking about making a gin cocktail subbing maple syrup for honey and calling it a Tree’s Knees. 171
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is how to Little Free Library. This one on Garfield has its own operating manual inside (which indeed is bigger than the outside). 020
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I think I finally understand the need for the word “cringe,” not just intellectually but on a soul level. 181
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My current line of work is requiring me to go eat some cake this afternoon. 130
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is exactly what one of my teachers refers to as “a sandwich problem.” I’m stuck between two friends heading towards a conflict, and all I can do is let them work it out. 000
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Brains. Today I had instant recall on the name of the shade plane I put on the ground 10 years ago (cimifugia racimosa, aka snakeroot). Yesterday it took 40 minutes to excavate the name Tina Smith. 021
JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Just saw a white SUV ON Hennepin and 6th with a vanity plate: “BUTTSSS.” A bold choice. 060