Short Notes on a Long Weekend
Three work friends & I conspired last week to each take a personal day on Friday & have a picnic out by the water in Branford, east of the various Havens. The whole weekend was perfect for this sort of thing, in fact, mid to high 80s and sunny; the three-day weekend has stretched out like it was on some kind of temporal hammock.
Saturday evening I took a city bus to the fully lovely Quinnipiac River Park, over in Fair Haven, where the barge-based American Wind Symphony docked to give a low-key kind of concert. (Robert Boudreau, conductor. I'm quite sure we saw this group in Pittsburgh about a decade ago.) They play on a barge designed by Louis Kahn in 1961, and it looks futuristic as of 1961. It was a pleasant but not very interesting happening; laying in the grass during dusk was mostly the high point. Eventually a friend joined me and we chatted through the back half of the concert. But again, it was a perfect weekend to settle into a grassy field around dusk.
If you really want to stretch out a Sunday, then minor league baseball is the thing to do. The independent-league New Haven Cutters play at the appropriately ivy-decorated university baseball field, which held today a pretty tiny crowd (several hundred, I think). The Cutters were schooled pretty badly (9 to 3) by an outfit from Nashua, New Hampshire. If there was one big disappointment, though, it was that they didn't do a seventh-inning stretch, which is just mind-boggling to me. Also their mascot sat in my lap between the first and second innings, though I was able to take that more or less in stride. (Little kids, on the other hand, love mascots, even minor-league mascots. And they're cute with mascots, since they all want hugs or to have their baseballs autographed.)
There was time enough for a couple of nice bike rides this weekend, of course, and a little bit of reading on the deck, too.
Tomorrow: work again! But only a three-day week, due to another personal day on Thursday (gotta use 'em before the end of June) and the company picnic on Friday. Also I really need to start packing in earnest for the apartment switch. Eventually I hope this will be a less annual occurrence. At least right after that comes Narragansett with the family.
Saturday evening I took a city bus to the fully lovely Quinnipiac River Park, over in Fair Haven, where the barge-based American Wind Symphony docked to give a low-key kind of concert. (Robert Boudreau, conductor. I'm quite sure we saw this group in Pittsburgh about a decade ago.) They play on a barge designed by Louis Kahn in 1961, and it looks futuristic as of 1961. It was a pleasant but not very interesting happening; laying in the grass during dusk was mostly the high point. Eventually a friend joined me and we chatted through the back half of the concert. But again, it was a perfect weekend to settle into a grassy field around dusk.
If you really want to stretch out a Sunday, then minor league baseball is the thing to do. The independent-league New Haven Cutters play at the appropriately ivy-decorated university baseball field, which held today a pretty tiny crowd (several hundred, I think). The Cutters were schooled pretty badly (9 to 3) by an outfit from Nashua, New Hampshire. If there was one big disappointment, though, it was that they didn't do a seventh-inning stretch, which is just mind-boggling to me. Also their mascot sat in my lap between the first and second innings, though I was able to take that more or less in stride. (Little kids, on the other hand, love mascots, even minor-league mascots. And they're cute with mascots, since they all want hugs or to have their baseballs autographed.)
There was time enough for a couple of nice bike rides this weekend, of course, and a little bit of reading on the deck, too.
Tomorrow: work again! But only a three-day week, due to another personal day on Thursday (gotta use 'em before the end of June) and the company picnic on Friday. Also I really need to start packing in earnest for the apartment switch. Eventually I hope this will be a less annual occurrence. At least right after that comes Narragansett with the family.
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