As another blogger of some fame once said:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
In this case, each
tomorrow seems to bring more unrelenting heat and humidity with glaring sun, very
occasionally punctuated by a storm. We had
a doozy last night with plenty of lightning, but fortunately no hits this time,
although the generator came on briefly.
Oh, did I ever mention that I played Macbeth in our high school senior
play? While the above could refer to the
weather, the rest of quote is:
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Which of course has
deeper, darker meaning.. That passage
has remained a favorite of mine since high school, which of course has been
quite a while.. Anyway, the weather has
kind of driven me into depression.. sorry to share...
On a cheerier note, back to more
pertinent topics, like restaurants.
One of the rumors of
closings was debunked when Cow and Fish was recently only closed for a week or
so. The other place rumored for shuttering was apparently just
that, an unfounded rumor.
"Something" is going on at the original "CoCo's/Lone Star" location in "the park". the sign has been taken down, and there are "trade trucks" there almost every day. I have feelers out, but no info has come back. Stay Tuned.
The Coffee Quarter in
San Souci has applied for a liquor license.
Not a bad idea, methinks. At the
very least, Irish Coffee!
And another
application to the Alcohol Beverage Board was received from “Hacienda Los
Guayabos”. From the address, I am
guessing that it might be the old “Charlie’s Deli” south of Gate Three. Good Luck to them…
We had an
interesting afternoon earlier this week.
As some might recall, years ago MFO did a lot of Archivist work for Historic St.
Mary’s City, organizing their corporate records for their certification effort. Most of which are slumbering
quietly in the basement of Calvert Hall on the campus of St. Mary’s
College. She still occasionally helps
the City with various Archivist activities, kind of the ad hoc archivist. Although the structure is primarily for the
college, the City will have a building of their own in which to house offices
and the collections, both historical artifacts (from digs) and also the
corporate stuff. So, MFO is going to
help with the move of her records from the basement to storage in the new
buildings. So we happened to be down at
the City this week, and while I did some Foundation work, she went over to the current
research building (a dump) to talk about the move with the curator of
collections.
He suggested we go
look at the new facility so we got an impromptu tour of the City’s wing of the
new facility. Now, not many of you have
had the opportunity to see what these people have worked in for years and years,
but seeing these new labs; huge storage capability (those big shelves that move around on
tracks); sinks with those faucets on slinkys, hoods, is amazing.
After spending years in the basement of the HSMC visitor center sharing
spaces with six and eight legged creatures along with occasional no legged six
foot serpents, MFO is extremely jealous. But, she will still be involved occasionally so hopefully be able to enjoy the new digs.
This is a giant step
for Historic St. Mary’s City and harkens in a new era of archeology. Good for them.
Mainly, it isn’t bounding..
One of the pleasures
of living “on the water” as they say, is that during the summer, we are treated
to a front row seat for the Wednesday night sailboat “races”. Lately they have pretty much turned into “drifting”,
When there is enough
breeze, the lovely spinnakers can come out
And occasionally the
Dee from the museum comes out showing us what a lovely vessel the skipjack is
And although neither
red nor sunset, the sails are pretty in the evening moon glow.
And lots of times we
see all this as we are
DFD
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