Let’s talk weather, what you’re doing, and what you’re reading. I think summer is having its final gasp here. It’s sunny, with temperatures in the nineties. I like fall, but I like my electric bills before I turn on the heat late in the fall. I don’t use the air as much as I use heat.
It’s been a lazy week here, after Linda and I made a trip to Newark one afternoon. We went to see the Budweiser Clydesdales, but we took the time to enjoy a farmers’ market, a used bookstore with two cats (Edgar Allan Paws and Margaret Catwood), and had dinner before the Clydesdales were in a small parade around the courthouse square. It had been years since I saw them in a parade. It was certainly worth the half hour trip to Newark. We had so much fun.
My favorite picture is below. Love this horse, who was a real ham.
Then, on a quiet day yesterday, I bought tickets to three shows at different theaters. It must have been Margie’s influence with her Drama Queens expeditions. You’ll be hearing about these shows for the next seven months. I’m going to see Pride and Prejudice at Otterbein University in October. Linda and I have tickets to Come From Away (again) at a library theater in Lithopolis. Then, we’re going to see Into the Woods at Otterbein in April. I appreciate the opportunities for theater here. That doesn’t even include our tickets for the Broadway in Columbus series.
Let’s talk books, if I didn’t overwhelm you with forthcoming books the last couple days with the Treasures posts. I’m reading The Three Graces of Pearl Street by Elizabeth Wellington Rollins. It’s the story of three generations of Italian American women in a neighborhood north of Manhattan. Graziella, the matriarch, is ninety-six years old, an ex-nun who rules her world. Grace is a psychologist who teaches. She may be good at her job, but life is failing her. And, the youngest, Ella, dropped out of MIT two weeks before graduation. She’s an environmental activist, who has no direction in life. With changes in their lives, it’s the first time the three women have lived under the same roof in years.
What about you? What did you do this week? What are you reading?
