Plan B: Jazz

 

Today I worked from home, and when Travalon and I went down to the dock, we saw a couple of ring-necked ducks, or maybe scaups. First the male is doing his neck stretching thing.

Is the female impressed? I can't tell.

I took some photos of flowers on my lunchtime walk.

Meanwhile, Travalon was at Stricker Pond, getting attacked by this goose:

In the evening I was planning to go to a German play on campus, despite the fact that I studied Romance languages. They promised subtitles, and it was a comedy, AND a faculty member was playing the ukulele. However, I couldn't find a single parking spot anywhere after fighting traffic and dodging road construction, so I parked at my church, figuring it would be a long walk and I'd be late, but what else could I do? I ran in to powder my nose, and when I came out, a person I know who can be very strict parked next to me and was texting someone, so I panicked and just went home. Travalon and I went down to the dock to watch the sunset; we missed the sunset, but we saw some neighbors and this crane:

Then the two of us went to Bierock to get spinach puffs. We were shocked to see the place was jam packed, because this excellent jazz band was playing called the Trilobites. 

I think by the time I took this video, the crowd had thinned out. We did manage to find a table and have our spinach puffs, and I had some lavender lemonade that wasn't very lavender-forward and a five-ounce serving of 420 infused drink. That just made the music even better. Was this more fun than the German play? Hard to say, but it was certainly a great evening out. I was dressed up for the German play, so it was good to have somewhere to go.

Oh yeah, I generally go for a walk at three, but today I was futzing around until suddenly hearing a train horn, so I ran out in time to see the train. Then as we were coming home, I thought I saw a train headlight as we crossed the bridge, so Travalon said we could drive to the crossing, but I could hear the train alongside us going clickety-clack. It was hard to see in the dark, but then we could see its little red taillight. We drove to School Road to see it cross the bridge over Troy Drive, but it was gone by then. Too bad, I could have made a video of what it's like to go through the tunnel under the train tracks while a train is passing by overhead.

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