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We tried to watch and hear the Easter service at St John the Divine (where we had heard the Palm Sunday service), but there were technical difficulties so we ended up with the National Cathedral in Washington, DC instead. In place of the communion prayer they did an apparently standard "prayer for shut-ins" (which neither of us had ever heard before), since essentially the entire congregation qualify as shut-ins this year. There were two singers (M/F), a trumpeter, an organist, three or four priests, and presumably half a dozen or two invisible cameramen, recording engineers, etc. all standing at least ten feet apart, sprinkled about in that huge space, plus a remote sermon by the Primate of the Episcopal Church in America, who looked like he was in his office. The whole thing was beautifully done, with excellent music under unusual constraints.
Got a phone call yesterday afternoon from someone named Kasia who had found Bailey's collar (which we'd been seeking for several days). She lives about 5 blocks away, so I took the girls on their afternoon walk in that direction: Kasia came out of her apartment building and handed me the collar, while I handed her a fancy chocolate bar in thanks. So that was the Expedition Outside The House for Thursday.
The Expedition Outside The House for Wednesday was me driving to Home Depot for gardening supplies, shelf-bracket thingies for the bedside tables, and curtain rods for hanging curtains in the dining room. There was a line of 10-20 people to get into the store, and they were admitted in batches of about 10, so I got in on the second batch. Found almost-but-not-quite the right kind of shelf-bracket thingies, so I bought them anyway on grounds that I'll need that kind eventually. Didn't find the right kind of curtain rods, but got some square iron bars: 1/4" solid square stock, and 5/8" external-dimension hollow square stock into which the 1/4" fits. We have yet to figure out exactly how this will work with the old viny-looking curtain rod holders we got at an architectural salvage place and used in our old apartment, but there are some promising options (that don't involve actual blacksmithing or welding). And I got a new wooden window-box, like our existing ones but less rotten, and a new wooden trellis, like our existing ones but less weather-beaten, and a bunch of "vegetable and herb" gardening soil. Haven't done anything yet with the green-bean seeds that came in the mail a few days ago; still waiting on two kinds of squash seeds. And it occurs to me that since one of the things that goes bad most quickly is salad greens, I should have ordered some lettuce seeds. Not clear where I'll put all this stuff: the back yard is mostly concrete, with some raspberry vines in pockets of soil around the edges, so I guess some will go into window-boxes in the back, while some goes into the front yard in front of the quince trees (where there's no grass growing anyway).
No Expedition Outside The House on Tuesday (except for walking the dogs). Did I buy groceries on Monday? I know I did on Saturday, as there were some missing Easter-dinner ingredients. And now we're out of salad greens and grapefruit, low on eggs and cheese, and the milk I bought Saturday is probably going bad, and there are prescriptions to refill and other drug-storey things to pick up, so there will need to be an Expedition today or tomorrow.
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shalmestere and I hadn't been planning to go to McDonald's, but landed there after flying through the air from some previous dream episode that I can't remember now. My father for some reason was working food prep, and on this particular day McD's had him grilling huge slabs of beef (like, two feet square) slathered with arugula pesto. He suggested we go outside, where there was a pockmarked landscape left behind by receding flood waters; he pointed out one particular hole in the ground and asked if we could tell what lived in it. We looked, and debated, and couldn't really tell, but guessed at muskrats.
Got a phone call yesterday afternoon from someone named Kasia who had found Bailey's collar (which we'd been seeking for several days). She lives about 5 blocks away, so I took the girls on their afternoon walk in that direction: Kasia came out of her apartment building and handed me the collar, while I handed her a fancy chocolate bar in thanks. So that was the Expedition Outside The House for Thursday.
The Expedition Outside The House for Wednesday was me driving to Home Depot for gardening supplies, shelf-bracket thingies for the bedside tables, and curtain rods for hanging curtains in the dining room. There was a line of 10-20 people to get into the store, and they were admitted in batches of about 10, so I got in on the second batch. Found almost-but-not-quite the right kind of shelf-bracket thingies, so I bought them anyway on grounds that I'll need that kind eventually. Didn't find the right kind of curtain rods, but got some square iron bars: 1/4" solid square stock, and 5/8" external-dimension hollow square stock into which the 1/4" fits. We have yet to figure out exactly how this will work with the old viny-looking curtain rod holders we got at an architectural salvage place and used in our old apartment, but there are some promising options (that don't involve actual blacksmithing or welding). And I got a new wooden window-box, like our existing ones but less rotten, and a new wooden trellis, like our existing ones but less weather-beaten, and a bunch of "vegetable and herb" gardening soil. Haven't done anything yet with the green-bean seeds that came in the mail a few days ago; still waiting on two kinds of squash seeds. And it occurs to me that since one of the things that goes bad most quickly is salad greens, I should have ordered some lettuce seeds. Not clear where I'll put all this stuff: the back yard is mostly concrete, with some raspberry vines in pockets of soil around the edges, so I guess some will go into window-boxes in the back, while some goes into the front yard in front of the quince trees (where there's no grass growing anyway).
No Expedition Outside The House on Tuesday (except for walking the dogs). Did I buy groceries on Monday? I know I did on Saturday, as there were some missing Easter-dinner ingredients. And now we're out of salad greens and grapefruit, low on eggs and cheese, and the milk I bought Saturday is probably going bad, and there are prescriptions to refill and other drug-storey things to pick up, so there will need to be an Expedition today or tomorrow.
Dream journal:
shalmestere and I hadn't been planning to go to McDonald's, but landed there after flying through the air from some previous dream episode that I can't remember now. My father for some reason was working food prep, and on this particular day McD's had him grilling huge slabs of beef (like, two feet square) slathered with arugula pesto. He suggested we go outside, where there was a pockmarked landscape left behind by receding flood waters; he pointed out one particular hole in the ground and asked if we could tell what lived in it. We looked, and debated, and couldn't really tell, but guessed at muskrats.