This morning I drove out to Anna Banana II's family cottage on the shores of Lake Ripley and arrived at exactly the same moment as Jilly Moose. Anna Banana II's husband was there too, and he told us about his job at the post office before we all piled into their rental car with California plates to go to the St. Vincent de Paul in Lake Mills. I got some really practical stuff there: a tie-dyed teddy bear and a tie-dyed football.
I thought Travalon would be more enthusiastic about the football, but when he saw it, he said, "What are we going to do with that?" I said, "Play football?" I fondly remember playing tackle football in the yard as a kid, but maybe we are too old for that nonsense, and I should have left it for a kid. Still, we could toss it around sometime. We have a big green space in front of the tennis court.
Next we met Anna Banana II's mother at the Highway 19 Diner, but we went into the diner and she arrived just after us and waited outside, so we were wondering what was taking her so long while she was wondering the same thing about us. Our next stop was the Columbus antiques mall, but when I asked to see a ring that had a palm tree on it, the woman who helped me was very snippy. I did set it aside and shopped some more, finding a stuffed kiwi bird and flamingo and an opalescent cross necklace. There was a one-decade plastic rosary they wanted too much for, but I did want to see it. It was in a locked case, so after a guy asked the snippy woman a question and she answered it, I asked if I could get into the case, but she yelled at me that she was still helping the guy. At that, I decided all the stuff I had collected really was just junk that I didn't need, so we ladies went to Julie's Cafe for drinks and snacks while Anna Banana II's husband continued to shop. He didn't buy anything either, so we were terrible customers. I have never been the person who gets a cartful of stuff and then says I don't want it, but there's a first time for everything.
Tonight I went to Moldy Jam, and it was an even smaller group than usual because a bunch of people had gone to a concert. At least the feisty woman who plays the mandolin was there - I really like her. I brought the violin because she needed some loving after I played Mandy for hours yesterday, and a guy who is a much better fiddler than I am told me I need to get my bow rehaired, but that it's a decent bow, and also that I need a new bridge and new strings. I don't feel talented enough to waste a ton of money on this project, but I am getting more serious about my fiddling, and it's time to get the old gut strings from my early music days off of there. The problem is that the guy who used to fix my instruments is dead now, so I don't know where to go. Maybe the local music shop can help me. Anyway, that delayed me, and then I heard and saw a train coming, but I didn't stop to watch it because the pharmacy was closing at ten and I had a prescription ready to pick up. So of course I got there just at ten, so I should have just watched the train. I heard two in Columbus while at the antiques mall, but I didn't see them either. Today was kind of a vaguely frustrating day, so it's fitting that the trains would have been frustrating too.
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