Saturday we met my sister, her family, and our folks in Newport for a celebratory birthday lunch. I'm trying to remember the restaurant, because their fish and chips were very good. Mark got calamari, which weirded out my niece. Afterward we went to the Newport south beach and flew kites. My old moon-rainbow-sun shield kite is aging, and I was a little too rough assembling the batons--so the moon ripped out a little. The kite was still able to climb into the sky, which I think I haven't seen in about twenty years (for the longest time it hung from a picture window in our old rental) -- and I was transported to the old Carleton College Rec Center which stood on a slope overlooking a soccer field. I also drew geometric figures in the sand with my beach compass. We got home after eight, and the cats were slightly annoyed with us.
Sunday night was almost-full moon, so I took a moment to sit in the newly constructed brick circle in the backyard and realize that the southern sky is pretty much obscured from within the circle. It was possible to see the almost-full moon through the branches of the cherry tree--if one sat and held one's head the right way. Cicero appeared, and we had a few black-cat/full moon circle moments where I wondered what Black Cat in the Northeast or Black Cat in the South meant. The other day I read the phrase "bête noire" which translates as black beast, so I've taken to calling Cicero that.
Sunday was a Deep Cleaning Day, with lots of dusting, rearranging, vaccuming, and mopping. I found $1.72 in change in the davenport, along with Lego Mini-figure accessories, a fortune cookie fortune ("You are enterprising--make the most of it"), Jamie Hynemon's mailing address, and about a half-pound of cat-hair and lint.
Monday we visited the rose garden and a local veteran's memorial. We also read the bill of rights and constitutional amendments. Then The Child and I went to see Infinity War, which was very comic booky and kind of grim at the end.
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