Fast Friday..

Been a bit since we've chatted, but kind of a dull week.   But busy weekend begins with a busy Friday. MFO is once again heading for Wisconsin, but this time on great silver bird, so the Feeder will provide escort service this morning to get her to the aerodrome..


So a bit abbreviated report this morning, and nothing much about food today. The “to do” list is large this weekend probably headlined by the annual St. Mary's County Fair. There are those that believe that it “always rains on fair weekend”, and it appears that they will be justified this year. Rain and some boomers are expected to hang around all weekend.

Also this weekend is the Offshore Grand Prix Boat Races, to be held right out our back door between the digs and the Solomons. It’s an event that features those humongous boats with closed cockpits and fins that travel faster than you think they could over water. Like anything else that is big, loud, and really fast they are fascinating to watch. Kind of like airplanes on the water. The official races are Sunday afternoon, but there are practice sessions Saturday. We did notice somebody roaring around last evening.. So, that’s another thing to add to the list maybe. Miss Geico is pretty impressive (the boat, don’t know if there’s a person)

I spent an “interesting” day yesterday down at Historic St. Mary’s City. They annually have a “Home School Day” with special rates and programs for the homeschooling community. MFO was to help with check in, and I of course manned the Chapel.

I am always glad to help the City, but I think someplace along the way I confessed that I was probably second only to W. C. Fields in my love of children… they are not my favorite visitors to the chapel.

So, after setting up camp around ten I settled in to face the homeschoolers. Sure enough a pack of them (they seemed to be in packs yesterday for some reason) was charging up the path from the Visitor center with the littlest one in front of the group of about 8 or 9. Getting ready, I watched as he approached the path to the chapel and…….. passed the entrance and just kept going as did the followers. Here’s this beautiful Chapel that sticks out like a… (pick something) and they didn’t even give it a look. I can’t say I was terribly disappointed, but it is rare that people pass the Chapel without at least sticking their head in. Oddly enough this phenomenon occurred for the rest of the day with more than half of the roving bands of children and exasperated parents. It could be that they were going to the re-enactor’s civil war exhibit just up the path from the Chapel. Nothing like guns to attract kids.

There were a few groups that did come to the chapel, with varying amounts of interest. Mostly they liked the building and didn’t care too much about the history. After trying several tactics to engage the kids, I finally found that the Piscina (the hole in the wall where the water from cleaning vessels used in the service is dumped) the little drawing showing all the graves in the chapel field was popular, as was the photo of Anne Wolseley’s leg bone. And, as usual the amazing acoustics of the chapel were very popular for screaming contests..

I did, however learn something that may alter my patter from now on. I usually talk about that slide that shows the (red) graves and the chapel foundation by saying something about the use of “ground penetrating radar”, which, while accurate is kind of over the head of most people, and especially kids. Today I said the “ground penetrating radar” to a group of them and was met with blank stares. Where upon the lady herding them spoke up and said “It’s like when the doctor ran that thing over my belly and you saw your brother!”. Ah, the light bulbs went on….Brilliant!! So maybe my “it was done with ground penetrating radar” could be replaced by “Sort of a sonogram on the ground”.

As the afternoon wore on, the roving bands seemed to diminish and I struck camp and came home.

An early look at today’s Enterprise reveals a nice article on the North End Gallery in Leonardtown which recently celebrated their 25th year of existence. Time does move on.

And the featured restaurant is a “new” Sushi place (Kobe Bar and Grill) up in Waldorf for all you fans of that particular cuisine, for which you can count me out.. I will eat the “raw fish” variety (which has a name) but the rice stuff wrapped in seaweed is not attractive to me.. Probably need a personal guide sometime..  There was no explanation why a sushi place (primarily seafood) is named for beef.

So, after finally working in something about food, it’s almost time to saddle up for the BWI run.

but i will also throw in the usual reminder to

DFD