A BUNCH OF RAINY DAYS

It's been raining for almost a week. I haven't been able to cover up the car and have had to leave it out on T Street so it isn't under any trees. The tulips John planted are starting to come up. The picture only shows the blue and pink ones because we took it a week ago. Now there are yellow ones too. People stop and look at them because they kind of look like easter eggs on the corner there and they are sort of the only cheery bright thing in the neighborhood. You can get a little hint of the new house colors in this picture, too. It has also been cold, probably less that it's really cold and more because it just seems cold because it's gray and overcast. I still have a cough and I still have the pain in my chest. So it was a nice treat when I saw in the paper that the people who put on the antique market under the freeway on the second Sunday of the month have added a flea market and craft fair. I had a two-for-one ticket, but John is busy staying home worrying about his surgery tomorrow, so I went down by myself. As I started down there, I didn't think they were having it because I couldn't see any cars parked. Turns out it was over on the other side of 21st Street, while the antique market takes up from 20th to 22nd. Because of the bad weather and because of the apparently small number of exhibitors who showed up, they were only charging a dollar admission instead of $3. There wasn't much there of interest, though I did find some interesting animal heads at one stall and they were only 50 cents apiece. Zoe gave me her season ticket to see the play Master Class. She gave me the ticket a few weeks ago, but I seem to have lost it, so I had to go to the play early so I could get another one The play this afternoon was absolutely wonderful. I just took a picture of the stage because I got there so early to be sure I got my seat that I took a picture. This is an often-performed play, and the writing is so tight that it's just wonderful. Janis Stevens played Maria Callas, and she WAS Maria Callas. She still emanated diva, even though she was delivering diva past her prime. Made me want to read her bio (Maria Callas).

At least the weather was nice enough today that I was able to walk to the theater and back without rain.

Tomorrow we have to get up at 5 a.m. for John's cataract surgery. He got a new hearing aid so after he has his cataract surgery tomorrow he will be like a 30 year old again. Of course then he's going to see how old and wrinkled I am.