I hope my readers had a good weekend. I was still under the
weather but managed to sing at a funeral Saturday morning while Travalon
shopped on State Street for Small Business Saturday. I didn’t know the woman
who died, but she sounded like she had a very cool, long life. She taught
English to the crown prince and princess of Japan back in the 50’s or 60’s! (I
can’t remember the details exactly.) The priest who presided at her funeral
Mass had come over from Nigeria and gone into the seminary here, and she and
her husband “adopted” him and treated him like one of their kids. Because her
parents were from Scotland, there was a bagpipe to end the funeral. Then
Travalon, Richard Bonomo, and I went for a hike at Cherokee Marsh, since it was
such a lovely day, and then Rich had us over, along with Kathbert, for
Thanksgiving leftovers.
Yesterday was a disappointing day. We have never had a bad
time at brunch at Plaka, and the food is good and reasonably priced, but
yesterday they brought us only one of our orders. I could forgive the initial
mistake, but they kept saying, “Are you SURE you didn’t get the second order?
The kitchen says they made it!” Finally they figured out it had gone to another
table (since we had ordered the same thing), so we waited forever and FINALLY
got the second order… and then we had to ask them to give us a discount after
having to wait an hour! After that I got some disappointing news from a
relative. The third disappointing thing was that Packer game – not a disaster
like last week, but so achingly close to winning. However, the weather was no
disappointment, and so Travalon and I went to Sauk and hiked on the new trail
where the defunct railroad tracks were. We saw two eagles sitting together in a
tree, and then one of them flew right over us before landing in the tree again.
Then they made all sorts of noise. No disappointment as far as eagle watching
yesterday!
Famous Hat
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