Fire Hydrant High Fashion

 

Today I worked from home, since I'd had to go to campus on Tuesday, and I wore the N95 mask while walking outside because the air quality was bad again. I did enjoy seeing the flowers by the side of the road: the pink wild roses, the yellow cinquefoils, the purple and white (invasive) dame rockets, the white choke weeds, and the chartreuse sun spurge. When Travalon came home, he drove me to the Labor Temple, and on the way we passed this fire hydrant wearing a traffic cone.

Travalon took this photo with my cell phone. Doesn't it look like a garden gnome or something? 

At the Labor Temple, my Union peeps and I are doing a course on organizing, over pizza, of course. Spinach and feta - yum! When Travalon came back to pick me up, he had a slice of pizza too, but we agreed that a single slice of pizza wasn't enough for dinner, so we went to the nearby Mideastern restaurant, Silk Road. It was very crowded when we got there, but by the time we finished, we were the only customers in the place. I was not as hungry as I thought and ended up bringing most of my Turkish dumplings home. Also, Travalon had brought me a decaf pandan latte from Leopold's that I drank on the way there, and earlier in the day I had half a chocolate croissant, or pan au chocolat. This was because our neighbor across the hall left the chocolate croissant and a scone outside our door, maybe to thank me for all my prayers for her. She had Stage 4 cancer and now the doctors say it's gone and they can't explain it, but I have been praying nonstop for her, a couple of chaplets a day and of course at Night Prayer I get the whole gang to pray for her. She's not the only one, either - the Daughter of Denni no longer has any sign of cancer, nor does another person I know from church. Prayer: it works, y'all!

On the way home, we passed this house on Troy Drive:

The last A appears to have burned out, but you get the idea. Then when I got home, I was relieved to find out the pro-life march scheduled for Saturday has been rescheduled. What a relief! It could have gotten awkward up at the Capitol when they ran into all of us protesting against Dear Leader. Now there are thunderstorms predicted in DC Saturday evening, so his little birthday military parade might be canceled. Isn't that a damn shame. Apparently God doesn't like this grotesque display of ego any more than the rest of us do. As a local Lutheran church has on their sign outside, "Our only King is Christ." Amen!

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