I’m sloooow today, and I think I’m okay with it. I’ve got my open mic in Catonsville tonight, Star Trek in the background at the moment. We’ll probably go food shopping. Little mechanical Living things are a’foot. The cat’s watching birds on the porch, the gear is waiting, cooling down from an absolutely joyous show at Dark Horse last night and I’m somewhat awake, but no more so than I need to be.
And the world is covered in snow.
I Love it. The bite of the weather outside, the creak of straining against it. The icicles and the obfuscation. The crackle and the crunch. The cat begs to go outside, takes one look and retreats to the centre of the house, as far away from all the doors to the horrible outside as possible. Then an hour later he begs again, expecting we’ve fixed it. But there’s nothing to fix. I Love it.
Food shopping while the world is in a tizzy. Nothing will ever compare to the strange surrealness of shopping in the depths of the Pandemic, but there’s been enough a return to normalcy that the stress of the grocery store is out of place. Too many people shopping. Too many people home sick. Too few cashiers to go round too many customers.
We come back home to our frigid trenches, shuffle cars around, dodge icicles, and still I’d have it no other way.
Last night we played the Dark Horse in Annapolis, and for as much as I was kind of dreading coming out of hibernation and going from 0 (just Live from the Lairs and open mics) to 90 (3 hour bar gig in which you don’t really ever slow down PLUS setting up the sound and running it LOUD) literally overnight, my body, voice and mind rose to the challenge, and t’was a joyous show.
… SEVERAL DAYS LATER…
Friday morning, more snow. Still Loving it. Hoping I can draaag Kristen out for a walk (SNOW WALK = SNALK) at some point today. Shoveling means I get to DO something that makes me feel like I checked off my “exercise today” box. Fine snow’s still misting down and I’m vaguely worried about getting out to run sound for Laura Baron’s CD release tomorrow, but will joyously do it if I can! Far more snow than I think we were expecting, and Loving it. Fine white and fluffy!
