Snow Day
On August 14, 1960, John Kennedy paid a visit to Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill, her private home in Hyde Park. They met one-on-one on that Sunday afternoon so he could ask for her endorsement for president. She was concerned about his commitment to civil rights and about the influence his father might have on a Kennedy administration. Apparently he said all the right things convincingly, because he got her endorsement and the rest, as they say... Here are some of the lyrics to the Simon and Garfunkle song that was originally titled Mrs. Roosevelt, but changed to Mrs. Robinson when used in The Graduate:
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidate's debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
Matty and I are sitting on a sofa on a Monday morning in Denver watching the snow come down. Half a foot so far with a couple more hours-worth to come. Since this is Denver and not Portland Matty still plans to drive downtown to the art museum. I will take a short walk since I resemble the Michelin dog in snow.
Yesterday, Matty went with his hosts to the museum of natural history. Excellent exhibits on dinosaurs, animals as machines, and space. He only took one photo he thought was very Coloradan. It was of an animated testing of hemp for its tensile strength. One more trivial tidbit and then I'll be done. When describing the resident of a geographical area beginning with "O" you add "an" unless the name of the area is Spanish in which case you drop the O and then add "an". Examples: a resident of Chicago is a Chicagoan, a resident of San Francisco is a San Franciscan.
Tomorrow the temperature will bounce up to the fifties and the sun will come out and we plan to spend a day or two at our hosts' Airbnb sixty miles west in the mountains at Dillon Reservoir. The bike will probably come out of the trunk. After that I wouldn't be surprised if we deadhead home.
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidate's debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose
Matty and I are sitting on a sofa on a Monday morning in Denver watching the snow come down. Half a foot so far with a couple more hours-worth to come. Since this is Denver and not Portland Matty still plans to drive downtown to the art museum. I will take a short walk since I resemble the Michelin dog in snow.
Yesterday, Matty went with his hosts to the museum of natural history. Excellent exhibits on dinosaurs, animals as machines, and space. He only took one photo he thought was very Coloradan. It was of an animated testing of hemp for its tensile strength. One more trivial tidbit and then I'll be done. When describing the resident of a geographical area beginning with "O" you add "an" unless the name of the area is Spanish in which case you drop the O and then add "an". Examples: a resident of Chicago is a Chicagoan, a resident of San Francisco is a San Franciscan.
Tomorrow the temperature will bounce up to the fifties and the sun will come out and we plan to spend a day or two at our hosts' Airbnb sixty miles west in the mountains at Dillon Reservoir. The bike will probably come out of the trunk. After that I wouldn't be surprised if we deadhead home.
Here's a bit of trivia for you, Precious. Oregon will pay out the first of the marijuana taxes to "schools, public health, police and local governments." How much? $85 million. That would buy a lot of hemp rope. -- Barbara, a Portlandan and an Oregonan
ReplyDeleteGood catch on the resident bit. Post has been amended.
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