6/7/2015

Weekly Update 6/7/2015

Book club met on Monday. I started to sew some sundresses, since I need something new to wear. I saw a picture of Sarah on prom night on fb. I had a go-round with the management at MP. A long, long day. 

 

Sarah and Erica

Tuesday, I had an appointment to get my hair cut. I haven't had someone else do my hair since Debra moved out of the condos years ago. But I had this opportunity to have it done by a hairstylist-to-the-stars who was in town to visit a friend I've met through the lunch bunch. At first I really liked it, but the glow soon faded. The picture I took last year is not very good, but is the pricy hair cut really worth it? 

free haircut thanks to Mme. Wilma

$60 haircut by Dennis

 

That evening, Donna and I went to a lecture about the raising of the CSS Georgia. The CSS Georgia was built in Savannah in 1862, and originally designed to be an ironclad warship. It is unique because it was built with iron railroad tracks, one of only two during the war. The Georgia never fired a shot in combat. On Dec 21, 1864, the confederates chose to scuttle her rather than abandon the ship to General Sherman's Union troops as they seized the city she was built to protect. It is now located roughly five miles from Savannah, off Old fort Jackson on the north edge of the Savannah Harbor navigation channel. The 1200 ton ironclad is being removed as part of a more that $700 million project to deepen the Savannah River channel. Over 8000 artifacts have been collected so far. Each is sent to Texas A&M for analysis. Once everything has been cleaned and studied, they will all be sent back to Savannah to be placed in a museum here. The lecture was a little too technical for me, with lots of info about how to recover small artifacts and the mechanics of an underwater archeological dig. But it was interesting.

I watched a lot of tennis this week, since it was the final week of the French Open. I saw some amazing tennis, and heard much inane chatter from the commentators (which I hate, so I usually have the volume muted). Congrats to Serena and Stan! I worked at sewing the sundresses, and finished them all by Wednesday. They look better on the hangers than they do on me! Thanks, Suzy, for letting me use your machine.

three new frocks

 

Thursday, Donna and I drove all around Savannah, mostly southside, in the vain search for something to wear to Sarah's graduation picnic next month. I don't like the way I look, and it's pretty depressing to try to find something that I think will be “just right”. I came home empty handed, but still have a while to find something. We also did some errands - the the Apple Store to have her phone tweaked, to the bagel shop for my fix, to the post office, and to Armstrong University. We had been told that seniors are able to audit courses at the university for free. We've heard a professor, Christopher Hendricks, speak at various places and different times, about architecture in Savannah. We had hoped to sit in on one of his courses, and perhaps find something else there that might be interesting. I think it may be too much, however, and you need to be a Georgia resident (Donna is not), and you need to have college transcripts (where would I get those?). We may decide to look into it further at another time.

Friday was typical - DH, followed by meeting with friends for a drink at 17 Hundred 90. I decided I really, really like key lime martinis!

Saturday, the ceiling in my condo was finally repaired. The family upstairs moved out the first of the month, so workers were up there re-painting (and I think replacing the carpet). I went up and knocked on the door and asked if they could maybe fix my damage while they were in the area doing work. And they did come on Saturday. I'm glad to have it done. It's not perfect, but better than having a huge water spot on the ceiling. I have other issues with our management company, so I didn't want to have to let this go a lot longer, and involve Lanier. I'm really glad it is done, and hope it doesn't happen again. I thought I would watch the Belmont Stakes, since there was a chance that history would be made. Telecasting began at 4:30; and the race began more two hours later. And there really was nothing to watch during all the hype leading off to the 2-minute run. The Women's Final at the French Open lasted about that long, but at least there was some action! Since I didn't do anything else all day Saturday, so I treated myself to an evening out and went to the performance of Big Fish at the SCT. As always, It was wonderful.

Sunday, I needed to be at BC to answer questions and hand out maps. I was surprised it wasn't more busy than it actually was - until 4 pm, however. As soon as it was time to close, lots of tourists came in. But that's ok. There's nothing on PBS this time of year anyway. 

nicely done, again!