Sat July 4th 7:30am, Run 28, race, Fallen Heroes 5-Miler, 1:02:47, 12:34 pace, 3rd of 11 in M70-99, followed by hash and eggs with friends at Silver Diner, very hot and humid, at the start: Sunny, 82°F, 28°C, Humidity 89%, Wind NNW 1mph, UV 3, AT 100°F, Activity Feel 100°F, 38°C
after 23 years.
June 16th, Rossini’s La Cerentola (Cinderella), the first of this year’s three productions of Wolf Trap Summer Opera. (Preceded by dinner at Anita’s New Mexican Restaurant, as always.)
July 15th: off to the opera again. This time Elspeth drove Cora and me to Anita’s Restaurant, where we met Tim for dinner, then got to The Barns at Wolf Trap in time for the 7pm dress rehearsal.
At Belmont today, other-duties-as-assigned included removing this fellow from the front entrance before the guests could see it. This was not my first snake assignment here. I used a broom and a janitor’s dustpan-on-a-pole. Snake handler certification pending.
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On May 13, Jack saw the owl again and got this photo:
Rhys’s third annual piano recital, Newark, Delaware.
We had a fairly busy day with no significant mistakes. We were strictly told to answer no questions about the amendment, not even to read it aloud. But none of the 1,786 voters had a question. The amendment failed in both Hartwood, Stafford County as a whole, and the neighboring Spotsylvania County, but it passed statewide by a slight majority. Eventually I suppose the courts will decide whether the amendment is lawful or not. [On May 8th, the Virginia Supreme Court said not.] At the general election last November, we had 1,902 voters, and 3,691 at the presidential election in November 2024.
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
The Fredericksburg Singers is a college/community group I’ve been thrilled to be a part of. In this concert, before the intermission, the chamber choir and the UMW chorus each performed some of their own pieces. After the intermission, at recording minute 33, the Fred Singers were added to those two groups to perform first the Aaron Copeland song Stamp your Foot, then the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzen, then the finale from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gondoliers. Our director is Dr Chris Ryder, and our accompanists (piano for four hands) were Dr Melissa Wells and Dr Robert Wells.