More isolation, more (mostly good) reading, and a reaction to second covid shot. Such an exciting life!
Activities:
2/4 Gas; Neil's Donuts; Ace Hardware
2/11 Library (curbside pickup); Lyman Orchards (breakfast fruit & other essentials)
2/17 Library (curbside)
2/21 CVS
2/25 Nissan (key battery replacement); West Side Market (Rocky Hill); traffic check E.Berlin Rt 372
2/26 covid vaccine dose 2 (followed by two days of nothing but sleeping, mild aches, and light eating)
The reading was, as usual, all over the map both geographically and thematically. The Passenger, set in Nazi Germany, and Pigeons on the Grass, set in Post War Munich, went nicely with Endpapers a family memoir that covers both periods and more.
Fiction:
The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador
and Founder of New Catalonia by Besora, Max (a fun romp)
The Passenger by Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
Pigeons on the Grass by Koeppen, Wolfgang
Pigeons on the Grass by Koeppen, Wolfgang
The Theory of Flight by Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria (Zimbabwe?)
The Cat and The City by Bradley, Nick (the city here is Tokyo)
The Mission House by Davies, Carys (India)
The Last Moon Before Home (Moon Trilogy, #2) by Dzikowski, Barbara J. (USA; nice, but not necessary, to have read the first of the trilogy)
The Cat and The City by Bradley, Nick (the city here is Tokyo)
The Mission House by Davies, Carys (India)
The Last Moon Before Home (Moon Trilogy, #2) by Dzikowski, Barbara J. (USA; nice, but not necessary, to have read the first of the trilogy)
At the Edge of the Haight by Seligman, Katherine (Post hippie Golden Gate Park, these are not flower children)
The Ancestry of Objects by Ryckman, Tatiana (meh)
White Ivy by Yang, Susie (My least favorite of the month)
Nonfiction:
Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by Dickey, Page (This was a nice read. In the past the garden (in northwestern Connecticut) has been open occasionally for tours. I hope they can do it again. It would make a good day trip)
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home by Wolff, Alexander
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Nimura, Janice P.
White Ivy by Yang, Susie (My least favorite of the month)
Nonfiction:
Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by Dickey, Page (This was a nice read. In the past the garden (in northwestern Connecticut) has been open occasionally for tours. I hope they can do it again. It would make a good day trip)
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home by Wolff, Alexander
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Nimura, Janice P.
Online:
I won't be trying this at home. I never even got past a simple paper airplane...
These impossibly detailed origami figures are made of a single piece of paper Thousands of folds. By Lilly Smith "Several months. One sheet of paper. Juho Könkkölä’s origami characters have to be seen to be believed."
Speaking of Neil's donuts...
And still on the calorie laden treats theme...
I am impressed with once having a First Lady who behaves as a human (as opposed to a clueless mannequin) that I have been following Dr. Jill on Twitter. Sooo...when Dr. Jill visited a DC bakery. The Sweet Lobby I couldn't resist checking out their site. I was quite taken with their boozy Cocktail Cupcake Menu. I shared this find with my housemate and she countered with a local source of treats -- Nora Cupcake Company -- which offers several cupcakes featuring boozy additives. So we spent a pleasant few minutes at our laptops in a sort of Cupcake War, reading delicious descriptions to each other.
Best Places to Visit in Europe (according to USNews)
I love lists like this one. They open up memories of places I've been to and dreams of places I'd like to go. It's a good list of 25 places, 16 of which I've visited.
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