When I was out on Thursday, I stopped at Trader Joe’s and they had just gotten in an enormous and gorgeous shipment of pink peonies. A bouquet was slightly more than I would have paid under normal circumstances, but it was clear they were fresh and they looked likely to last for several days. And, honestly, they were just so colorful and I knew they’d be beautiful when they opened, which they are.
This week has been Pride Week in D.C., which will culminate tomorrow with our annual parade, which starts just down the street from the Burrow, and in which Rudi will be participating with his colleagues.
Here’s what I’m hoping the weekend includes:
How about you? What’s on tap for your weekend?
Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. Rudi and I were at the ballpark on Tuesday for a glorious evening of baseball. As with most sporting events these days, the Nationals employ staff to do routine schtick with attendees between innings, such as opening a box while wearing baseball gloves or identifying songs. Between the 6th and 7th innings, the host running the trivia game asked a guy for the nickname of our third-baseman, which he answered correctly. The host congratulated him and then asked if he’d be willing to answer a bonus question, at which point the man’s boyfriend got down on one knee and proposed. While I know public proposals are risky and put a lot of pressure on the person being asked, it seemed like this proposal had been well-thought out, especially since it included a custom engagement ring engraved to resemble the stitching of a baseball. Oh, and Teddy said yes.
2. Our library’s Fab Lab maker space held a free jewelry repair class today, and although I couldn’t find what I’d bought to fix the necklace that Rudi had commissioned for me by a friend, the librarian running the session had supplies (including some new spacer beads, since one of the original beads had a piece of the waxed cord stuck in it that I couldn’t get out) that worked well enough to make it wearable once again.
3. The afternoons have been very comfortable this week, which has enabled me to spend a lot of time outdoors.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
This needs to be short, because I dozed off writing it and I have to go to bed.
I suppose I would get further faster with my sock if I picked it up on days that didn’t start with “w.” I am through the cuff now and am ready to begin the leg.
New books started this week: Tricia Levenseller’s Daughter of the Siren Queen, the second in a duology about a female pirate & her crew, and Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi, about two friends who meet the day the girl starts college.
Head over to As Kat Knits for other book/craft combos.
The Nationals have a new mural that they were just finishing up when Rudi and I were last at the ballpark. It was designed by Peter Chang and Brandon Hill of D.C.’s No Kings Collective, a creative arts agency that has done some other major murals around town.
The mural feels very local. For instance, the angle of my picture doesn’t do it justice, but the “i” is the Washington Monument. The batter is Ryan Zimmerman, who was the team’s first franchise player after it moved to the District from Montreal, and who is our aging and oft-injured first baseman. “See you later!” is the catch phrase of our tv announcer following all home runs. The image of the Washington Senators is based on a poster from the team’s game versus the Yankees in 1957. Some of the colors harken back to the Homestead Grays, D.C.’s Negro League franchise.
I really like it.
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to recommend ten books from our favorite genre. I’ve got ten mystery series I like to share with you (I’ve only included series where I’ve read more than one title, which lets out several great series I’d otherwise also recommend) where I can only attest to the debut book):
How about you? What are books you recommend in your favorite genre?