After a couple of crazy days, I took a good day off and today I'm supposed to get back in motion and get some things done around the house, or houses as it really is. But first, I'll write this little update and get my head together.
On Thursday night, the Emperor and I had a dinner meeting with a local history interest group that we're members of, and then we were supposed to start driving toward Big City to the West. When we left the meeting at around 8:30, however, we noticed a huge black cloud coming from the west, right over the interstate we'd planned to travel on. We had originally planned on going home and just grabbing our suitcases, but instead we just went home to hunker down and wait it out. It was a wise decision, as we soon learned. The wind howled and the rain and hail came pouring down for a good hour. When the storm finally let up, we hopped into the car and started our drive. Happily, we had planned to break the journey at a town about two hours away and we arrived there at around midnight.
On Friday, the weather was beautiful. We met Sis and Bro at IKEA and laid plans to meet at our ultimate destination for the weekend, a concert by Jethro Tull at a spectacular outdoor arena. We got there early enough to set up a small spot for a picnic supper and to watch the goings on around us. People set up grills and lawn chairs and some tossed frisbies or wandered between "camps" to chat with other concert-goers before it was time to line up at the gate. To make a long story short, the concert was great (no surprises there) but the weather... it started out cool, and got progressively colder and more windy as the evening wore on. The music lasted about three hours (although it seemed much shorter) and by the end, about half of the audience had fled to warmer places. The Emperor and I stayed because we'd prepared for it, but we were still shivering and ready for something hot by the time we left. We fell into our hotel beds at around one o'clock in the morning.
We slept in the next morning before heading for home. I had a good shop at a huge fabric store and picked out some beautiful silks for a Regency bonnet, plus some buckram to shape it. While I was in the store, it began to rain again, and once we left it took us about two hours to drive out from under it. We got home early in the evening. In the morning, my hands were sore from gripping the steering wheel, and my eyes were still a little sore from the cold wind at the concert. Instead of getting right to work on housework anywhere, I took a day off and didn't do a thing. Wait -- I knitted a little bit on the Amazing A--'s test knit.
So today, on this Memorial Day Monday, I'm going to vacuum our rental house, take the vacuum over to the new house, and get the lawn mower out of storage and possibly mow the rental lawn (the landlord may beat me to the punch if I wait too long... or long enough). And on that note, I'd better get moving.
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