I took the day off yesterday
Jun. 14th, 2007 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomMostly because I had what I knew would be a long-ish dental appointment in the morning. So I decided to also take my car in for maintenance, visit the Green City Market, and just generally hack around. The weather certainly cooperated; it was glorious.
I dropped the car off first thing, and then got a bus to the dentist. There, I had a cleaning, X-rays, and a stern lecture from the hygienist about coming in more regularly. I was not allowed to leave without scheduling my next appointment! Also had a chat with my dentist about Venice, as I hadn't seen her since I'd been back.
It was my first visit to the Green City Market this year. They had garlic scapes, which I love, so I bought a bunch. Also asparagus, green tomatoes, good bread, a couple of ribeye steaks from Heartland Meat, and a bunch of heirloom sweet peas with the most beautiful aroma. I had a ribeye with mushrooms and garlic scapes, and asparagus, for dinner tonight. Yum.
After picking up the car, I came home to a bit of excitement. One of the little boys who lives across the hall from me had told his mother that he smelled smoke. So everyone was going around sniffing, and the fire department was called. Fortunately, nothing was on fire, and we think that, as we had the hallways painted the day before, he might have been smelling that. Anyway, better safe than sorry!
After some errands, I lazed about, reading a book on the back porch, paying bills, etc. Then I went out to the Chicago Hand Bookbinders meeting, which was at the Adler Planetarium. Taking advantage of the weather, I decided to bring my camera, go early, and wander about the Museum Campus taking pictures. Saw a bunch of cute bunnies, and a predator or two.
As they did with cows and furniture in past years, the city is doing a public art project, this year with globes. But these are political - all about global warming. There are a lot on the museum campus, and they go all along the downtown lakefront. I took a bunch of pictures of these Cool Globes, as the project is called, and expect I'll take more as the summer progresses.
The meeting was grand. Nothing better than looking at old books, old prints and old astronomical instruments. We saw an ephemeris by Maria Cunitia, bound with scrap vellum from a music manuscript, a fifteenth-century astronomical/astrological manuscript with volvelles, a telescope dating from shortly after the invention of telescopes, a very interesting book in which someone re-invented the constellations as biblical and Christian religious personages (which, obviously, never caught on!), and a set of prints juxtaposing the Newtonian view of the universe with the scriptural (or at least scriptural as viewed by the Muggletonian sect). Digression: And a very interesting sect they were, too! While preaching toleration, they themselves were persecuted as dissenters, being anti-Trinitarians. A private gathering at a local inn or tavern with a reading or two from the Bible, and the singing of the "Divine Songs" to traditional tunes over a few beers would be considered a "service", says this source. My kind of church! ;-))
There was a concert at Northerly Island, which messed up the bus routes, so I wound up taking the train home, with Eugenie and a new member who also lives in Hyde Park. (If CHB isn't careful, we'll have a south side branch. ) Eugenie is a most interesting person. It seems we caught our train at the same station at which she and her husband first arrived in Chicago as refugees from Nazi Germany. So she began to reminisce about how they had arrived here in February, having been first in New Orleans, and how they walked, dressed for NOLA, in a Chicago winter, to the station where they had to catch another train. It's a wonder they stayed here! And I can listen to her stories of Chicago bookbinding history forever.
I dropped the car off first thing, and then got a bus to the dentist. There, I had a cleaning, X-rays, and a stern lecture from the hygienist about coming in more regularly. I was not allowed to leave without scheduling my next appointment! Also had a chat with my dentist about Venice, as I hadn't seen her since I'd been back.
It was my first visit to the Green City Market this year. They had garlic scapes, which I love, so I bought a bunch. Also asparagus, green tomatoes, good bread, a couple of ribeye steaks from Heartland Meat, and a bunch of heirloom sweet peas with the most beautiful aroma. I had a ribeye with mushrooms and garlic scapes, and asparagus, for dinner tonight. Yum.
After picking up the car, I came home to a bit of excitement. One of the little boys who lives across the hall from me had told his mother that he smelled smoke. So everyone was going around sniffing, and the fire department was called. Fortunately, nothing was on fire, and we think that, as we had the hallways painted the day before, he might have been smelling that. Anyway, better safe than sorry!
After some errands, I lazed about, reading a book on the back porch, paying bills, etc. Then I went out to the Chicago Hand Bookbinders meeting, which was at the Adler Planetarium. Taking advantage of the weather, I decided to bring my camera, go early, and wander about the Museum Campus taking pictures. Saw a bunch of cute bunnies, and a predator or two.
As they did with cows and furniture in past years, the city is doing a public art project, this year with globes. But these are political - all about global warming. There are a lot on the museum campus, and they go all along the downtown lakefront. I took a bunch of pictures of these Cool Globes, as the project is called, and expect I'll take more as the summer progresses.
The meeting was grand. Nothing better than looking at old books, old prints and old astronomical instruments. We saw an ephemeris by Maria Cunitia, bound with scrap vellum from a music manuscript, a fifteenth-century astronomical/astrological manuscript with volvelles, a telescope dating from shortly after the invention of telescopes, a very interesting book in which someone re-invented the constellations as biblical and Christian religious personages (which, obviously, never caught on!), and a set of prints juxtaposing the Newtonian view of the universe with the scriptural (or at least scriptural as viewed by the Muggletonian sect). Digression: And a very interesting sect they were, too! While preaching toleration, they themselves were persecuted as dissenters, being anti-Trinitarians. A private gathering at a local inn or tavern with a reading or two from the Bible, and the singing of the "Divine Songs" to traditional tunes over a few beers would be considered a "service", says this source. My kind of church! ;-))
There was a concert at Northerly Island, which messed up the bus routes, so I wound up taking the train home, with Eugenie and a new member who also lives in Hyde Park. (If CHB isn't careful, we'll have a south side branch. ) Eugenie is a most interesting person. It seems we caught our train at the same station at which she and her husband first arrived in Chicago as refugees from Nazi Germany. So she began to reminisce about how they had arrived here in February, having been first in New Orleans, and how they walked, dressed for NOLA, in a Chicago winter, to the station where they had to catch another train. It's a wonder they stayed here! And I can listen to her stories of Chicago bookbinding history forever.
