Second Weekend of March

 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1 p. 595

31.3 miles

sunny, cold

 

319 recordings of 23 types, 67 old CPD, 28% clear.

 

Friday the 9th was Renaissance and I was really eager to see the mini-seminar on how the Music and Memory program, to slow the progress of Alzheimer's, is working here in Sacramento. During the inspirational speech we were encouraged to write our own playlist... the very first song I thought about was Peggy Sue, and the rest of Buddy Holly's work, then of course the Everly Brothers, and so on.

 

I really enjoy the tuna banh mi for lunch, and I'd parked close enough to go after my pillow, so the Time Travel movie, which was "Arrival," was viewable. Very mnd-blowing. I really enjoyed it.

 

In the evening I took Laurie to Jesuit where we met Bernadette and Gareth, to see "Willy Wonka." To my surprise, the dentist and his wife were there, because their daughter was Veruca Salt. It was very funny and Emma did fine. They all did.

 

 

Saturday I changed out the flannel sheets, so of course it got cold.

 

Pharaoh's DNA arrived. He's 1/4 pit bull, no surprise, but only 1/8 German shepherd. The rest is 1/4 chow, which I don't see at all, and 1/8 gordon shepherd and1/8 Italian greyhound (also a real surprise) and 1/8 who knows what.  Fascinating.

 

I took a box of nice books to the SPCA. (On Friday I had taken two of these off for the University library and bought a Bernard Cornwell book. I stopped at Trader Joe for biscotti because horror of horrors, I ran out of Belvita breakfast biscuits.  On the way I saw the Cristo Rey High School building. It's nice, but I wish they could have had the Loretto campus. Oh, well.

 

That night was a church dinner, Filipino food. It was great and I saw a number of my friends. I twitted Pete Mithin on when he was in 8th grade and I was one of the chaperones for a trip to the Manteca water slides. He didn't follow directions not to put his pass in his trunks and ended up with a soggy mess  I helped him redeem. Not surprisingly, he didn't remember this at all.

 

Sunday I forgot to take a book to Gerrie, and I forgot about Communion at the retirement home until Mass was nearly over, so I told Brenda I wasn't going to do it. Instead, I went down to the Crocker and really enjoyed the new exhibits. (I really have to move the pictures off the camera so  I can share them here!) I got the two Faith Ringgold books for Padreic. Then I walked 1.3 miles around to geocache... one was dubious... I don't know if I found it at all, and have asked the hider, and one had someone having lunch next to it. No luck there.