This and That

 

I sit on the board of an orchestra and we kicked off our 40th season recently. As on officer of the board, I have to show up early so I was able to snap a picture of an empty stage before the performance began. Although I like our symphony and our civic center, we don't get any off Broadway plays coming through. We do have a couple locally produced shows but nothing I would call current. Someday, I hope to just get season tickets at the civic center in our Major Urban Jungle but it will have to wait until we have more time since it is a major commitment to get there, eat, watch a play and get home.

Not a very good picture of some Oreo macarons by youngest daughter created. She is turning into quite the baker which I have no complaints about. I told her that they were so tasty that she should start a side business. I thought she would say she couldn't sell them for a price to make it worthwhile but her response was that merely she wouldn't have enough time to meet demand. They were that tasty so she may have been right.

My wife decided to make some homemade tortellini one evening for supper and I helped her fashion those pasta. However, she made WAY too much filling to go into them. So the next day, I had to help her form dumplings out of the excess and ended up with one and a half cookie sheets full. They are now in a freezer waiting for some winter soups. I can't wait because the tortellini shaped ones were really delicious.

Last week before the time change, I was walking with my daughter out to the bus stop at the end of our street and I saw the nearly full harvest moon shining through a haze in the gap between all the trees. For some reason, the entire mood of the scene just reflected perfectly what I was feeling. As you read this, the time has changed and we are back to walking to the bus stop in the light again. It just doesn't feel the same.

A few days prior to the above photo, I was again walking to the bus stop with my daughter when as we both transitioned from the front port down the single step to the sidewalk, we both saw some dark object on the step and leaped over it. We both exclaimed in surprise and wondered what it was but we didn't have time to go back for a closer inspection. After the bus left, I walked back and seeing the object was still there from a safe distance in case it decided to attack me, I pulled out my phone and used the camera light to see what it was. I was thinking it was likely a dead animal but it turned out to be a glove lost by my wife.