Rosary Ladies Listening to Irish Tunes

 

Today I had to work in the morning, having to attend a meeting at 10 and another one at 11, but both were online so I worked from home. Anna Banana II is in town, so she and Jilly Moose came and picked me up (no mean feat with all this road construction in our neighborhood), then we went to Banzo for lunch and sat outside because the weather was so beautiful. After lunch we took a walk at Cherokee Marsh, and we saw a Canada goose sitting on top of a muskrat lodge. Jilly Moose took a photo.

We also went to the spot from which you can see the little nameless island in the marsh. We wanted a cool beverage after all that walking, so I thought of the North Side Lounge, since it has outdoor seating. Jilly Moose got a cranberry drink, while Anna Banana II and I had lavender French sodas, and I thought the color contrast was so beautiful that I took a photo.

True fact: I have a rosary in these colors. The Hail Mary beads are a reddish-orange and the Our Father beads are lavender. 

After that we went to Alt Brew, and Travalon met us there. We had delicious gluten-free cheese pizza (and Travalon and Jilly Moose had gluten-free beer), and we listened to traditional Irish music. The red-headed flute player I went to the concert with on Wednesday was there, and she sat in with the band in the second half of the evening. I recognize so many of the tunes as ones I can play, but I rarely can remember their names. One I can remember is the Butterfly Jig, and I immediately remembered that "butterfly" in Irish is "feilicain," and in Spanish it's "mariposa," and "farfalla" in Italian, but it took my brain a solid five minutes of thinking to pull out the French word, "papillon." I even remembered there was a dog breed by that name, but I couldn't think of the word itself. Anna Banana II said she couldn't remember how to do a jig, but suddenly halfway through the evening she said she did remember... but she wouldn't demonstrate. I do remember seeing her do the Irish jig years ago, and she even tried to teach some of us, back when we were limber enough to do all that leaping into the air.

Speaking of languages, I have some fantastic DuoLingo news:

Woo hoo! Thirty! Or should I say treinta? What does this mean? I'm not sure, but just a couple of weeks ago my score was 25, so I am improving. On the other hand, my French score was like 130, so I clearly have quite a ways to go!

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