It's been over a week since my last post - I apologize to my faithful readers! I hope you are still faithful! Before I go over the last week, let me explain why I haven't been posting very often. It's mainly because posting a blog has become logistically difficult, and it takes longer and thus harder to fit in. Two main problems, well, three, actually. (1) I cannot up-load photos from my phone to the blog from home. For some reason, when I try, I get an error message. So I have to go to the Dummerston Church. But that is also now difficult. (2) For some reason, I can no longer upload photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Air laptop. When I plug the phone into the USB on the laptop, it starts dinging every second. That is a fairly new phenomenon. So I have to upload photos to my older laptop, my MacBook Pro. (3) The MacBook Pro cannot access WiFi at the church. When I try, it says This Server is Blocked. So I have to either go to the Putney Library, or find a way to transfer photos to the MacBook Air. Today, Ellen dropped me at the church. I can't get to the Putney Library and I forgot to bring the flash drive to transfer photos from one laptop to the other. I think I'll have to email photos to gmail.com and get them off there from the MacAir computer. Cumbersome!
Later: I just emailed photos from the phone to this laptop. It wasn't too time consuming. I realize now that I could do that at home before coming to the church. So now to catch up.
April 11th: Monday, April 12th was John's birthday - 60 years old. Quite a milestone! So the day before, we met at the Dummerston Church for a short and small celebration - what we all felt up for. Cynthia made a gluten-free carrot cake and we had cake and tea. We'll do something "bigger" later. The day John was born, April 12, 1961, was the day the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the earth - the first human in space! John's birthday was also the 60th anniversary of that event (which, by the way, I saw little notice of in the media that day. I guess if the Russians do it, it doesn't count). So my card to John featured this photo of Yuri, with him saying, "Happy 60th Birthday, John!"
Monday-Wednesday: Most of last week, I was working on taxes. Technically, they weren't due until May, but in the past certain Vermont forms have had to be in by April 15th regardless (they changed that this year but I didn't know that until I'd done all the work). So I just did them all, Federal and State. Wednesday, there was a Chicago Theological Seminary Zoom session at 1 pm and the Swarthmore course on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in the evening, but otherwise, pretty open days. I pretty much stayed at home.
Last Friday: We had about six inches of snow. Up here on the mountain, it stuck to the ground. It was far less at the bottom of our driveway and at the bottom of the East-West road it was practically nothing. Elevation makes a difference!
I'm not sure what we did on Saturday, but of course Sunday was Virtual church at Guilford, followed by Torah study on Leviticus, followed by Brattleboro Concert Choir practicing in sections on a work titled Tell Me, Where Is Fancy Bred? (1865) by Mrs. Mounsey-Bartholomew (words by Shakespeare). If we feel up to it, we can record ourselves singing our part and submit those recordings by next Sunday. Sunday evening was a Piffaro Concert featuring young recorder players who had participated in a recorder festival/competition sponsored by Piffaro. Very nice!
Yesterday: We went to Northampton to see Tamar! Getting out into the world! We went to a favorite restaurant near her old charter school and had Mac 'n Cheese, and enjoyed thoroughly the beautiful spring flowers, trees and shrubs. Tamar showed us a self-portrait she had drawn in charcoal in her remote high school art class! Very impressive!
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