Extracurricular

blogging (of course!)
music
- State College Choral Society
- playing my 1870s reed organ -- infrequently, partly because the instrument needs a lot of TLC
books
all things cat
practicing using newish digital camera
sorting and labeling photos from recent trip to Italy and Germany; mentally processing my experiences during the trip
genealogy
reediting, researching, and illustrating my grandmother's compilation of memoirs of their group of refugees as they escaped from Russia to the U.S. in 1923
small-scale gardening (1/8-acre yard), mostly perennial flowers, a few herbs and container veggies, and the raspberry patch that ate State College

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