Dane Dance in Tie-Dye

 

Today I worked from home and, as usual for a Friday, I did a load of laundry and threw it in the dryer. The dryer abruptly stopped working, so I loaded the wet stuff into a garbage bag and figured I'd have to spend my lunch break at the laundromat... and then the garbage bag broke. I texted my neighbors in desperation, and one let me bring my stuff to her place. I even sat working at her table while she checked on the laundry and then folded it for me. So thoughtful! 

In the evening I met my former neighbor, and we went to the Monona Terrace for the Dane Dance. We both wore tie-dye.

We sat in the cafe eating dinner during the first band, a really good funk band I'd never heard of before, and I can't remember their name now. Then we went to the main part to hear the second band, a salsa band, and there was a beautiful moonrise.

When I got home, I went for a long rosary walk, since I hadn't been able to at lunch, and I did some adulting, putting the clean sheets on the bed and refilling the hummingbird feeder. They sure sucked it dry fast! In July they barely touched it.

Here is some more train graffiti from Travalon's videos.

Travalon is with his buddy from Japan right now. They took the ferry over to Michigan, and he said it was great. I expect he'll have lots of photos for me to post when he gets back.

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Almost Total Lunar Eclipse

 

Today I worked on campus and walked at lunch with Hardingfele and her coworker, who barely lets either of us get a word in edgewise. We walked in Allen Centennial Gardens, and we saw these cheery marigolds.

My aunt and uncle in Colorado sent photos of some lovely flowers in their garden.

Then after work I went to the Union Terrace to join my Union peeps for a happy hour, and Travalon joined us when he got done with work. He and I stayed until the sunset.

When we got home, the full moon had risen.

We went out to check on it after Night Prayer, and this is what it looked like:

That was about 9:30. Then we went out about 10:20 and it looked like this:

We went out again at 11:15 and it looked like this:

Rich sent me a photo he took.

I tried to take one with my phone, but it doesn't look like much. However, I did get a funny thing on DuoLingo today when I chatted with Falstaff the Bear, who is apparently fluent in Portuguese.

Now it's time for more screenshots from Travalon's train videos. These are all from one train.

Still more to come!

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