2021-04-24
Saturday morning was a lazy awakening with cold pizza for breakfast – a cuisine I very much enjoy.
We went through a couple pots of coffee as I wrote American Can Dispatch.
The predicted rain arrived.
This did not deter us from exploring the looming gothic structure on the eastern skyline, which I’d noted during the visit Laurel & I had made to Paul & Kathy’s last winter. A gloomy day seemed ideal for investigating what from this distance bore more than a passing resemblance to Dracula’s tower.
Saturday morning was a lazy awakening with cold pizza for breakfast – a cuisine I very much enjoy.
We went through a couple pots of coffee as I wrote American Can Dispatch.
The predicted rain arrived.
This did not deter us from exploring the looming gothic structure on the eastern skyline, which I’d noted during the visit Laurel & I had made to Paul & Kathy’s last winter. A gloomy day seemed ideal for investigating what from this distance bore more than a passing resemblance to Dracula’s tower.
We drove Paul’s venerable GM pickup. Up on the ridge we discovered Mount Storm Park.
An appropriately menacing name for the locale of a haunted castle.
An appropriately menacing name for the locale of a haunted castle.
This neighborhood is a mix of historic mansions well suited to any branch of the Addam’s family, and a scowl-inducing mélange of much newer McMansions. The brooding gothic structure on which our curiosity centered is an old church, onto which has been glommed unimaginative blocks of institutional residences, a convalescent community of some kind.
“No Trespassing” was the rule of the place. Our quest fulfilled, we came back down the hill and parked on the main drag of Northside, then walked up and down both sides looking for a public house.
Nada one was open this early on a Saturday, except for the literal last chance – The Littlefield. They weren’t yet open for indoor dining but we were seated upstairs on the deck and served cocktails and a brunch I quite enjoyed – a jazzed up rendition of an Egg McMuffin with thick maple pancakes for a bun.
Back at Paul’s we resumed listening to the David Bowie discography we’d begun with Black Star, his final release, which I hadn’t yet heard. Powerful stuff, and even with just one listen I’m tempted to say among his best.
We played go and listened to a succession of Bowie albums, and always knew when they were done because Spotify would play This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads – apparently the only other song in his particular Spotiverse that the algorithms could match to the genre he’d called up.
I published American Can Dispatch.
We walked back over to Northside, which was now generally open, and had a beer in a lightly populated local tavern. Then Paul got a text from Kathy and we returned to the loft to greet her.
Kathy and I caught up on how things had changed since last we’d met. For me, much that was in limbo at that time, but held considerable promise, has now blossomed in an overwhelmingly positive way. von Blitz Design LLC is providing not only a solid revenue stream, but a bonus of time and schedule flexibility I’ve not enjoyed in decades – it’s what makes this journey, and my many ambitions for it, possible.
Back at Paul’s we resumed listening to the David Bowie discography we’d begun with Black Star, his final release, which I hadn’t yet heard. Powerful stuff, and even with just one listen I’m tempted to say among his best.
We played go and listened to a succession of Bowie albums, and always knew when they were done because Spotify would play This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads – apparently the only other song in his particular Spotiverse that the algorithms could match to the genre he’d called up.
I published American Can Dispatch.
We walked back over to Northside, which was now generally open, and had a beer in a lightly populated local tavern. Then Paul got a text from Kathy and we returned to the loft to greet her.
Kathy and I caught up on how things had changed since last we’d met. For me, much that was in limbo at that time, but held considerable promise, has now blossomed in an overwhelmingly positive way. von Blitz Design LLC is providing not only a solid revenue stream, but a bonus of time and schedule flexibility I’ve not enjoyed in decades – it’s what makes this journey, and my many ambitions for it, possible.
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