8-1-2010 A home weekend

The weather broke again on Friday and got much much more tolerable. There was a huge storm in DC, Va and Md last Sunday (killed 4 people, put out power to 275,000) and after that, the weather on Monday was less humid. But it quickly got back to nasty. And then Friday came - we went out of the house on Friday morning to go to the gym at 5:15 and it was so fresh and cool we decided to walk instead. We've been doing that when the weather allowed us. It's getting lighter later so this is probably the last time we can do it. A great walk, up into town and then back along the river. When it's nice, it's very very nice.

On Saturday we went to the Farmer's Market for our fruit fix and then, at about 10:30, headed to downtown DC, driving no less, with an $8 parking coupon in our pocket. We were going to go first to the Portrait Gallery to see the Norman Rockwell exhibit but it was closed. So down to the Building Museum to see the Lego display - Legos used to build scale replicas of the largest buildings in the world. Long line, lots of kids - not the time to see the exhibit! So we poked around an exhibit on DC history and then went back to the Portrait Gallery.

The Rockwell exhibit was very interesting - he really had a way of using light in his art - it is much better to see his paintings than the magazine covers. We also toured the Christo exhibit, about the 15 mi white drapery that was spread across Marin county in the late 70s.

We left and went to Pot Belly for sandwiches and then to the Corcoran (it's free on Saturdays) to see the exhibit of Chuck Close prints. He makes large prints using small pieces of color or grey tone. We both were pretty tired by the end of our foray. But another good day in DC. Went to Famous Dave's to get takeout for dinner, chowed down on BBQ and fresh watermelon.

Sunday was a down day. We did our second St. Vincent de Paul visit to someone needing help. Did the first one Friday afternoon. Then cleaned up the house, did some computer stuff (like these blogs), looked at possible new rentals if our rent gets upped soon. Quiet days are good too.