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Brian Bilbrey February 5, 2017

5 Feb 2017

A good weekend, as such things go. Saturday, I roasted some coffee. In the evening, we headed over to the Annapolis Shakespeare Company's new digs, and enjoyed a superb performance of Thorton Wilder's Our Town. Not a play I'd seen before. Excellent direction by founder Sally Boyett, and powerfully performed. Patrick Ryan Sullivan takes a very pleasing and strong turn as the Stage Manager, but my personal favorite for this show has to be the tender and heart-rending Emily Webb as given to the audience by the talented Laura Rocklyn. As each season with this company progresses, I see new…

Brian Bilbrey December 11, 2016

11 Dec 2016

G'day. What a lovely day. Well, not temperature-wise, as it was 24F when I got up and walked the dog this morning, and had barely crept up to the freezing point by noon. But, still a nice day. We took Linda and Mike to see the matinee showing of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, staged by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. It's running through Christmas Eve, so you have plenty of time to go see it yourself! This is the second year we've enjoyed this production. While some might say it's not the cheeriest of stories, it is…

Brian Bilbrey November 20, 2016

20 Nov 2016

Windy, cold day today. Quite a shift from yesterday's 70° loveliness. That's okay. I stayed busy all week and all weekend. Today, for example: Marcia is doing great. She's done with the cane, mostly. She did most of the laundry work today, other than the "carry bits up and down the stairs" part. Strength is going up, pain is going down, and she's weening off the last of the heavy pain killers in the next couple of days. Next up: Driving! We enjoyed watching the first episode of Amazon's new car show: The Grand Tour this week! I'd missed having…

Brian Bilbrey May 15, 2016

15 May 2016

According to the record books, this last stretch of rainy days ended at 15. But that was measured at a local airport. MY backyard meter got measurable rain on 18 consecutive days, with today being the first rain-free day. Yowza! And let me tell you how unhappy my plants are! They're not as unhappy as they might have been with a late hard frost, but too much water stunts and kills. The tomatoes haven't grown, and continuous moisture encourages early rust, which would be ... bad. The cantelope seedlings are dead. The happiest looking plants in my backyard (aside from…

Brian Bilbrey May 8, 2016

8 May 2016

I spent yesterday cleaning house, and half of today doing yard work. THEN Marcia let me know I was supposed to be doing that for my mom, not us! Wrong coast, be damned. Grin. Nothing much to report for the week. It was wet all last week, I think it rained every day. Even though today was sunny all day, it rained in the wee hours (very polite, that, if you ask me). The NOAA forecast for the week is, well, rain. Every day. The veggies that could be growing, aren't. The cantelopes are dying, sadly. We'll see if they…