Life has been good, Erci and I have simply been enjoying the good weather and using cool, sunny weekends to garden.
We tackled the section of yard in front of the attached garage. Pulling up crab grass has been very challenging, but we’ve rescued some monkey grass and planted more. We had Merrifield Garden Center install a “Forest Pansy” redbud tree, and we put in more Irises, Peonies, and Phlox. In the back I have added Lenten Roses, some wildflower seeds, and Merrifield put in a Cedar tree. It’s amazing how fast 5 cubic yards of mulch is getting used up.
Erci and I are dancing two places regularly now, Arthur Murray Tysons Corners and The Ballroom in Centreville. Both are excellent studios and each has it’s strengths and weaknesses. We spent last Saturday night watching the showcase routines (kind of like recitals) at a third studio, called the Dance Factory. Our friends Cindy, Anne-Marie and Susan were doing routines, and we got to see many more and made lots of new dancing friends. There’s a bit of a dance renaissance happening in the United States lately, and it is wonderful to see. We have friends who rave about a new Fred Astaire studio in Merrifield, we’re already overloaded going to two studios, but it sounds interesting too.
Get out and dance!
Erci and I are getting ready to try Argentine Tango, and we’ll showcase our first fumbling start at this new dance in Centreville on the 19th. We are also working on standard Tango together at Tysons for June 2nd and we’ll also each do our own routines then too with our regular teachers (Sutragirl doing Viennese and me doing Mambo).
Work has been busy, busy, busy, but less than it was three weeks ago. I am slowly catching up.
Liz, Bob, Erci, and I are heading out to Kalamazoo to attend The 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. I look forward to meeting Joann, Deb, and Steve at the congress.
We are still looking for a new pool service company who will come out to our neighborhood, but once the pool is open we plan to have a dance/bar-b-que/pool party.
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