Evidently my cousin’s fairy garden has become quite the neighborhood attraction!
Today, with my siblings, we drove to Cambridge to visit our cousin - can you tell from his garage that our cousin is the artistic one?
Thursday: Spend two hours waiting at an almost empty urgent care to see about a couple of tick bites. Wish me luck - fingers crossed for no Lyme disease!
On Wednesday: My sister and her husband arrived from Portland, OR, and we met my brother for dinner - first time in a while we’d been together for dinner in our hometown.
Still catching up: Tuesday I traveled across the bridge to Renditions Golf Club and a nice reunion with Jamie and Mac, two long-time friends.
It’s been a busy week, and I’ve dropped the ball on my daily posting. Gonna do some catch up. Monday kicked off the week as we traveled to Baltimore for Conor’s grad school graduation. After not getting to walk at his college graduation due to COVID, this was a nice make-good. Lovely evening.
Volunteered this afternoon in the Neighborhood Service Center’s pop-up thrift shop - helping to raise money for the local food pantry and community support services by selling high-quality donated items. After two weekends, it’s a local success story with significant dollars raised.
Another Saturday night and…
The days are flying by - and I need to spend my time more intentionally. More focus.
And so I found myself crossing the mighty Tuckahoe (Creek).
I mean, Ruby REALLY loves Preston. And he loves her Tuesday walks with him.
Easton alley walk.
A moment from last night’s Apple TV series Your Friends and Neighbors has stuck with me. After Jon Hamm’s character’s father dies, he ends up at a bowling alley with a woman he learns was his father’s mistress.
He asks her: “You think he was happy?” She answers: “I think he found things to be happy about.”
A lovely reframing. And good advice too.
I’m getting concerned about my wife’s addiction to wooden puzzles.
The sold out crowd has started to filter in. The Robert Cray Band takes the stage in 30 minutes.
Living and dying (mainly dying these days) with the Orioles every night. It’s going to be a long summer.
Ruby collapses in a deep sleep, exhausted from hours of working on a wooden jigsaw puzzle.
It seems as though spring has finally arrived. (Hopefully no more frost warnings!)
Some days, you just feel under it. Nothing really wrong - in fact, lots of good things happening - but the undertow is there. Looking forward to tomorrow (for no particular reason).
Cold, but lovely spring walk.
