366 unusual things: days 84-88 (Take 2…)

Yesterday, I posted these unusual things.  Today, I tried to add a photo, and then another unusual thing happened.  My post disappeared.  Poof!  Fortunately, my husband, as one of my ‘followers’, had an email version that I could copy.  So let’s do this one more time…

24th Mar – My oldest son is 26 today.  This is the first time I’ve had such an old child.

25th Mar – Walked past a front yard that is all garden, lush and green and shaded by three big trees.  Through the luxuriance snakes a path of imitation grass.

26th Mar – Reading George Sand’s 1838 travel account, Un Hiver à Majorque – 181 pages.  Searched in the library for the English translation, Winter in Majorca, assuming it would be the same size, but found a thin 43-pager.  Dead authors are fair game for some translators.

Carthusian Monastery, Valldemossa, Majorca, where George Sand, her children, and Frédéric Chopin spent the winter of 1838/39

27th Mar – At my nine-year-old student’s house, she misheard my question after a woman unknown to me walked past the table:
“Who was that?  Is she a relative?,” I asked.
“She’s my grandmother,” she replied.
After a silent moment, she asked, “Why did you say that?”
“Say what?”
“That she’s irrelevant.”

28th Mar – Afternoon:  A tiny Housing tenant wandered into my yard and sat on my steps, his parents close behind.  We chatted;  it was pleasant.  Another ‘first’.
Evening:  An angry man shouting from mid-street threatened this same little family with unbloggable sufferings, until the police arrived.

366 unusual things: days 84-88

I’ve just accidentally deleted this post. Good thing I kept notes; I can rewrite it.
I had tried to add a photo. That was a mistake.

Wish I could undo the disappearance.

366 unusual things: days 79-83

19th Mar – Just read that Abraham’s first recorded words are his instruction to his wife to tell a lie, in order to save his own life.

20th Mar – Paid for access to George Sand’s Story of my Life.  Translated from French.  1585 pages, 72 chapters, 65 translators.   Apparently the largest group translation outside the Bible.

21st Mar – Heard Libby Holman singing Body and Soul (1930).  She occasionally uses the OSV word order – object-subject-verb:  ‘My life a wreck you’re making’.  Like Yoda from Star Wars – ‘When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmm?’

22nd Mar – Went to tutor at a house where nothing is thrown away.  Found a note to myself that I dropped in the yard last year, a reminder to get The Scarlet Letter from the library.

23rd Mar – Ran into a man who told me his wife, whom I’ve known for 10 years, is teaching French at the local primary school.  As a Francophile, I wondered how I could have known someone for 10 years and not known she speaks French, so I had to ask, ‘Does she speak French?’.  ‘No,’ he said, ‘she’s learning it at the Alliance Française.’  Hope she’s a few lessons ahead of her students.