1/9/2022

 

Weekly Update 1/9/2022

Not a lot going on again this week.

I packed away all the nutcrackers for another year. They always delight me as I remember good times and good friends. But, putting them in storage, and then getting them out again is a wonderful way to be reminded each year.

I attended book club at TLC. This is the British Mystery Writers Book Club, and we read Martha Grimes Stargazey. It was ok, but since it was the first Richard Jury book I’d read, and it toward the end of the series, I missed a lot by not knowing some of the background of the characters. I didn’t like the book well enough to want to read others in the series, either. But I did enjoy hearing what the others had to say. Most had read nearly all of the series.

I also dialed into a Friends of Mt Hope zoom lecture. It was a fascinating true story of riots in Rochester following the assault of a 10-year-old German girls by an African American man in 1872.

The speaker had a vast knowledge of the event as well as insights into the way Rochester was at that time. There was also some mention of North Landing Road and the Dugway, where I grew up, and made me want to find out more. My internet search skills are not well developed, and I couldn’t find a lot. I did find some interesting articles by the Brighton town historian about the African American community in that area. The talk was well worth attending.

The Bills won, but it wasn’t pretty. They should have crushed the Jets, and the final score did not show how close the game really was. I have little faith that Buffalo will get very far into the playoffs. But at least they are ahead of New England.

Adrian continues to be perfect in every way. He is six months old now, and that’s so hard to believe.