Lovely day today. After having a leisurely brunch cooked by yours truly, Thom and I went to his friends Joy and Margaret’s housewarming party. They have a beautiful, historic home–full of character and details, especially compared to the newer construction in their neighborhood–in Purcellville, Va., about 50 miles west of where we are in Arlington. Good times. It’s a nice drive out there and back; some places just a few miles from the city feel like they’re way out in the country.
Before heading back home, since the weather was so nice I suggested we stop somewhere along the river and have a walk around. We went to Gravelly Point, a park just north of National Airport. There were lots of people out enjoying the warm evening, and in a far corner of the park a flock of Canadian geese seemed to be taking it easy as well. Since the place is directly under a flight path, the main attraction (or diversion, at least) is watching planes zoom excitingly close, directly overhead in their approach to the airport. Reminds me of when my parents and I used to go on short driving trips and would sometimes stop at SFO to watch planes.
Now Thom and I are back home, thankfully not caught in the rain (I heard thunder a few minutes ago), and while Thom plays his computer game, I’ll probably curl up in front of the TV either to watch a DVD or catch up on TiVo.
P.S. A couple of interesting things we heard on public radio during today’s drive: an amusing segment called “Marriage as Rerun” (introduced thusly: “Many couples eventually encounter this problem: one person in the couple trots out the same story over and over, and the other person has to just listen…”) from a This American Life episode entitled “Reruns,” itself a rerun, appropriately enough (originally broadcast in 2002); and a segment about Robert and Clara Schumann on Studio 360, whose theme today was the creative lives of couples. There was something about the story of the Schumanns–how music was so much a part of their lives, for better and for worse–that got me a little misty-eyed by the end.