The plus of being more than six months behind on your blog is that when your marriage license packet arrives in July for your surprise courthouse wedding in August you can take a picture of it and not worry about ruining the surprise by publishing the picture on your blog.
Because by the time you do, you will have been married for many months.
These have popped up everywhere and I can’t figure out what their deal is.
I haven’t seen many Varda films, maybe even just one—The Gleaners and I—but I liked that film quite a bit. The tiny words say: Mother of the French New Wave and give credit for the Agnes Varda drawing.
From the future, I can tell you that it was a film festival at the Clinton Street Theater. I wish they had been the tiniest bit clearer about the the film festival, though August wasn’t the greatest month for me to watch movies.
Anyway, these were excellent eye catchers and I hope people watched some of her films.
Not only do they have an inflatable kiddie pool but also they have added the sprinkler feature to the trampoline experience. Judging by the state of the grass under the trampoline, this water feature is used regularly.
Sara tells me this postcard comes from a new bakery and boutique in Newport. Apparently Landmark Fine Goods sells candles, a thing I don’t like. Sara knows this and warns me away.
What I can get on board with is a bakery. Sara tells me one shares the space with the candle place and that it was good enough they went back twice. She neglects to include the name. It’s in the Nye Beach area and Google Maps gives me four different choices. Maybe the Blue Pig Bakery?
I went to the Living Room Theaters to watch Together Together for my first official fully vaccinated outing. The movie theater hadn’t pieced together their premovie slideshow and there were no previews! It is still very early in the venturing out process.
There were two other couples in the theater with me.
The movie was exactly the right movie to break my estrangement from movie theaters. I’m looking forward to seeing more movies in the dark.
For our date tonight, we searched out Mike Bennett’s A, B, Sea display, which I read about in the Oregonian. Each day, Bennett puts out another letter in his themed alphabet in his front yard. We were there on the nineteenth day, so could see A through S.
Matt writes postcards to his niece and nephew.
We both posed for this top-notch head-in-the-hole display.
Matt poses next to his initials: jellyfish and manta ray.
I especially liked this elephant seal.
I posed next to my initials: pelican and clownfish. Also, when we visited, there were no other people present. I think maybe families come earlier in the day.
Though no seashells were available when we stopped by, you can see that others have decorated and returned these seashells and they were added to the display.
There were postcards and stickers to take home.
It was a fun find! Thanks, Mike Bennett. After the entire alphabet appears, this will go to live at the Rogue Brewing in Newport.
My second shot was early in the morning. This turned out to be a mistake, as I had mild flu symptoms and the copy editing load at work was heavy and also one of the copy editors called in sick. So I was shivering and miserable while copy editing. Still, it’s better than not getting a second dose.
As you can see, I was one of those 15,249 Pfizer vaccine doses.
Here are my various things acquired on this day. The woman who gave me my shot was a bit distracted. Among other things, she asked me what color bandage I wanted and then after I said orange, gave me the yellow.
As it was before, I enjoyed the efficient process at the convention center.
I headed down to the Portland Convention Center to get my first dose of the Coronavirus vaccine. It was a very fast and efficient process and provided more people watching opportunities than I had had in more than a year. Also, the woman who gave me my shot is the mother of two of the First U youth I met when I was doing YRUU. Portland, the biggest small town in the USA.
There were stern “no photos!” rules, but I couldn’t resist grabbing this photo of the discarded stickers saying what time people could leave after their 15- or 30-minute resting period. As you can see from all those 6 p.m. stickers, my appointment was at the end of the day. I got the Pfizer shot.
And here you can see that I was one of 13,000+ people to get the Pfizer vaccine that day.
Working Class Acupuncture and I feel the same about certain types of boxes. These did look like a very nice set, though I did not take one home to find out just how magical they were.
I liked this pretty butterfly flying across the front of the Sunday paper.
Also, notice how small the time change reminder is? It used to take up as much room as the butterfly does. Now that we have phones and watches that change the time for us, it’s much harder to forget to spring forward or fall back..
