Yesterday I saw that Duolingo has announced a Yiddish course. I signed up for it today. My father’s parents were native speakers of Yiddish. My father knew a fair bit of it, but I don’t think he was ever fluent in it. He didn’t speak much of it around the house. On the other hand, …
Tag Archives: Pandemic year
Back in Whole Foods
In the next step of emerging from the pandemic, I went food shopping at Whole Foods. In what some people call “the before times”, Arlene would go shopping there three or more times per week, buying what she wanted for that day’s meals. During the pandemic we have had virtually all of our food delivered, …
Quick Notes Apr 4
We went walking in Rock Meadow, a conservation area in Belmont, with Charley, Maija, and Ari. Part of the idea was to give Patsy some time alone when she could concentrate on her thesis. Arlene and I used to go birding in Rock Meadow often, but we’ve only been there twice in quite some time. …
TJs second time in a year
This is definitely an “emerging from the pandemic” post; the big event of the day was that I ventured to Trader Joe’s to do some serious grocery shopping. Arlene and I had been there once before since the start of the pandemic; it was during special early morning hours (and we had got up early …
Working on statistics
I also watched a few you tube videos about grafting apple trees. Maybe it will work! My vegetable patch is now all turned over; a bit more raking and it will be ready for planting snow peas. Near the beginning of the pandemic I started working on a web site to look at some of …
Lumber Yard trip
I went out to National Lumber today — another BIG DEAL “emerging from the pandemic” thing — and got two 2x4s to support our cellar stairs, a clear pine 1×6 6 feet long — the guy actually said he gave me a 7 footer because that’s what he had, and at clear pine prices that …
Birthday Party for Anne
We went over to Charley’s backyard for a birthday party for Anne. Everyone missed proper birthday parties during the pandemic year. We did have something for family in that backyard for the grandkids, but since no school friends were there, I’ll stick with saying “not proper parties.” Today Arlene called in an order for sushi …
Walked along Charles
We met Charley’s family at the Shaw’s parking lot on River Street in Waltham and walked along the river. The shopping center (strip mall, more like it) there was built back when I was a first year (maybe second year, but I don’t think so) graduate student, back maybe in the spring of 1966. That …
Emerging from the Pandemic Year
Yesterday, March 15, 2021, was two weeks after my second dose of COVID-19 vaccine (the Pfizer one, so it was three weeks after the first one, which was February 8). That means I had two weeks after the second one for my immune system to do as much as it was going to (or at …