Re: Tidy-up Tuesday
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:50 pm
Good afternoon, all!
Talk about distraction! Reading about LadyM's son and RRose's son once-upon-a-time driving made me think of my friend's daughter. She is in a play at school about women pilots, so she and her friend have gotten it in their heads to drive to see the aircraft museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, over 3 hours away. (There is a museum specifically about women in aviation at the lakefront airport downtown, but apparently that will not suffice.) My friend's not sure she's comfortable with it; her husband is unsure enough that he's considering taking the day off work to drive them. Anyhow, thinking of that made me wonder just where the Cleveland Air Races were run back in the day, so I looked up a map, which had a town name on it that I didn't recognize (it has since been absorbed by another town). I looked up another map, which had more counties on it, which led me to remember DyoungestBIL's wedding, which was at a camp at the intersection of three counties, so before they could get permission to have an outdoor wedding, they had to figure out just what diocese the camp was in. So I looked up a diocesan map. Then I remembered that the founding priest of the church they attended down there was later the founding bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, but I couldn't remember his name (Jean-Baptiste Lamy), so I had to look up the diocese of Santa Fe, which finally ended up being the end of that rabbit hole.
Thank you for the thoughts, Harriet.
This evening, DC and I are going to a workshop at church presented by Braver Angels, which is an organization that is trying to restore civility by getting people on both sides of the aisle talking together. It sounds like it might be a little scary from the viewpoint of the vulnerability of putting yourself out there, but I can agree with the purpose, so I'll cross my fingers and dive in, I guess.
I really need to make a grocery list; dinner tonight is French bread pizzas. Our other choices were tuna noodle or soup with rolls/biscuits. We are scraping the bottom of the grocery barrel here. I have the dinner menus chosen and the master grocery list printed out, so I will see how far I can get in the next 10 minutes or so before dinner is ready.
Talk about distraction! Reading about LadyM's son and RRose's son once-upon-a-time driving made me think of my friend's daughter. She is in a play at school about women pilots, so she and her friend have gotten it in their heads to drive to see the aircraft museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, over 3 hours away. (There is a museum specifically about women in aviation at the lakefront airport downtown, but apparently that will not suffice.) My friend's not sure she's comfortable with it; her husband is unsure enough that he's considering taking the day off work to drive them. Anyhow, thinking of that made me wonder just where the Cleveland Air Races were run back in the day, so I looked up a map, which had a town name on it that I didn't recognize (it has since been absorbed by another town). I looked up another map, which had more counties on it, which led me to remember DyoungestBIL's wedding, which was at a camp at the intersection of three counties, so before they could get permission to have an outdoor wedding, they had to figure out just what diocese the camp was in. So I looked up a diocesan map. Then I remembered that the founding priest of the church they attended down there was later the founding bishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, but I couldn't remember his name (Jean-Baptiste Lamy), so I had to look up the diocese of Santa Fe, which finally ended up being the end of that rabbit hole.
Thank you for the thoughts, Harriet.
This evening, DC and I are going to a workshop at church presented by Braver Angels, which is an organization that is trying to restore civility by getting people on both sides of the aisle talking together. It sounds like it might be a little scary from the viewpoint of the vulnerability of putting yourself out there, but I can agree with the purpose, so I'll cross my fingers and dive in, I guess.
I really need to make a grocery list; dinner tonight is French bread pizzas. Our other choices were tuna noodle or soup with rolls/biscuits. We are scraping the bottom of the grocery barrel here. I have the dinner menus chosen and the master grocery list printed out, so I will see how far I can get in the next 10 minutes or so before dinner is ready.
It's not that I can't find unfinished stools, but that one was burnished by decades of use and downright comfortable. We do have a stool, but not so inviting. Anyway, I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of the work you're putting into those.
We lured a church staffer in to sit with us and watch her presentation also. (The vice-president's dh passed away yesterday, and we think some of the ladies may have heard the news and assumed we were not meeting.)