Yesterday Travalon and I met Anna Banana II, Jilly Moose, OK Cap, and Richard Bonomo for brunch at La Brioche, and my cafe breve had a heart in the foam.
I went home west around the lake to log into work in time for a 1:00 meeting. Had I gone east, I would have been caught in traffic caused by a fire at my church. What's going on?? First someone sabotages the parking gate, and then lightning strikes the steeple and sets it on fire! I didn't know until getting home and seeing a text from Hardingfele: "Hey! Your church is on fire!" with a link to an article on a local news station's website, showing flames around one face of the clock. I immediately called Rich, but of course he was already there in person. I tried to save the photo from the website, but it would only save in some weird file format, so I can't post it here. Maybe Rich has photos he can share with me.
Since there wasn't anything I could do for my church, I logged into work, attended the meeting, and worked the rest of the afternoon. It stormed on and off all day long, so I had to walk around the house. In the evening I talked to Tiffy, and then it was too late to blog.
Today we met Anna Banana II, Jilly Moose, OK Cap, and Richard Bonomo for lunch at Amber Indian Restaurant, but no churches got set on fire during our meal... as far as I know. Afterwards, since we were so close, Travalon and I took a brisk walk around Tiedeman Pond. We saw some gulls, and one heron flying overhead, and mallards.
We also saw boat-tailed grackles with their beautiful, iridescent heads.
We saw purple martins, which are also beautiful and iridescent.
A song sparrow posed for us, so Travalon got a couple of good photos.
We had cleaned a bit before lunch, and we cleaned a bit after our walk. The place is really starting to look so much better. Travalon thinks by December we will have it in the sort of shape where the ten minutes a day is just picking up anything random that got out of place the day before, so I'm looking forward to that. Maybe we will even have people over! And there will be places for them to sit!
In the evening we went to the Forward soccer match. I was all done up with my Forward hat, Forward shirt, Forward scarf, Forward earrings, and Niko. In this photo you can also see I'm wearing a flower as a bracelet. I'll get to that.
The Forward were working very smoothly as a team the first half, and they scored a goal relatively early in the game. I started screaming without realizing a toddler was passing right by me, and boy did she look terrified! Maybe people shouldn't bring toddlers to soccer matches...? Fortunately her mom seemed to successfully distract her with the pretty pink smoke they always send up when the Forward score a goal. The rest of the game they seemed to lose some cohesion and never scored another goal, but they didn't let Knoxville score either, so they won the game, and then there was a lot of pink smoke. We were sitting far from the Flock, but we could faintly hear their constant singing and drumming, which is one of my favorite parts of a Forward match. For some reason random women had pink roses, and I wasn't sure if someone were selling them or just giving them away. Then suddenly the kids next to us all had big bouquets of all sorts of flowers, and every kid that passed by seemed to be carrying a flower. We couldn't figure it out - if they were giving them to children, then why did some women without children have flowers? Were they selling them? But it looked like a woman was just handing them out to children. Nobody offered me a flower, but as we were leaving, I did see a small pink one on the ground that someone had made into a bracelet, so I wore it on the long walk back to the car. My favorites were the pink carnations with blue edges on their petals, like the Forward colors. I saw several kids with those. Flowers at a Forward match in the lusty month of May seem appropriate, even if their distribution did seem a bit mysterious. And somehow I did get my own beat-up miniature pink rose that smells wonderful.
Famous Hat
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