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It's been an immensely busy weekend and I'm utterly wiped. Good times, but I'm going to have a nap, then call it a night and sleep as late into the morning as possible.
We attended a dance-by-definition Plus square dance event in Dillsburg, PA (just north of Gettysburg) all day Saturday. The two hour drive north required us to depart home by 7:30am which in turn necessitated getting up around 6am or so. I'm not a morning person, especially on weekends. This was a challenge.
On the good side, it was a fun day trip and we knew another dozen dancers from DC, Baltimore & Philadelphia among the seven squares of dancers who registered. Our merry group descended on the Baker's Diner for lunch and scooted over to Carlisle, PA, during the dinner breaks: the meals and shopping together was just as much fun as the dancing itself.
As for the dancing, caller Bill Harrison ran us through a lot of interesting & challenging formations. As a C2 dancer, I've seen most of these before: "coordinate" and "folow your neighbor" from t-bone formations, fractionalized calls such as "circulate," "split circulate" and "scoot back," etc. One move I hadn't seen before was calling "relay the deucey" from parallel right-handed & left-handed waves: it worked, but it required some of the arm turn trades to be a partner trade. The more experienced dancers had to think carefully through it, and I suspect a lot of regular Plus dancers never quite wrapped their heads around the entire concept. Still, there is no growth without effort and I'm glad to have experienced it.
We were home by 11pm or so. I crashed nearly immediately.
I slept as late as I could this morning, but we were on the road again by 1pm, this time for a friend's birthday pool party in Arlington, VA. I really like lounging in a swimming pool, letting my mind go blank and staring at the clouds. Sadly, I'm too damn cheap to get a pool myself and rarely have enough time to enjoy one anyway. What I need are more friends with pools so I can mooch off them in rotation.
Good new: I carefully monitored my solar exposure today so I'm not bright pink or red. Bad news: I really should have stopped eating one burger earlier but the food was so damn good that I couldn't resist. Damn you, tasty food!
I have a dozen things I should get done tonight but I'm really too tired to do much. I'm going to keep my eyes open as long as possible, but I expect to be sawing logs by 10pm. G'night!
We attended a dance-by-definition Plus square dance event in Dillsburg, PA (just north of Gettysburg) all day Saturday. The two hour drive north required us to depart home by 7:30am which in turn necessitated getting up around 6am or so. I'm not a morning person, especially on weekends. This was a challenge.
On the good side, it was a fun day trip and we knew another dozen dancers from DC, Baltimore & Philadelphia among the seven squares of dancers who registered. Our merry group descended on the Baker's Diner for lunch and scooted over to Carlisle, PA, during the dinner breaks: the meals and shopping together was just as much fun as the dancing itself.
As for the dancing, caller Bill Harrison ran us through a lot of interesting & challenging formations. As a C2 dancer, I've seen most of these before: "coordinate" and "folow your neighbor" from t-bone formations, fractionalized calls such as "circulate," "split circulate" and "scoot back," etc. One move I hadn't seen before was calling "relay the deucey" from parallel right-handed & left-handed waves: it worked, but it required some of the arm turn trades to be a partner trade. The more experienced dancers had to think carefully through it, and I suspect a lot of regular Plus dancers never quite wrapped their heads around the entire concept. Still, there is no growth without effort and I'm glad to have experienced it.
We were home by 11pm or so. I crashed nearly immediately.
I slept as late as I could this morning, but we were on the road again by 1pm, this time for a friend's birthday pool party in Arlington, VA. I really like lounging in a swimming pool, letting my mind go blank and staring at the clouds. Sadly, I'm too damn cheap to get a pool myself and rarely have enough time to enjoy one anyway. What I need are more friends with pools so I can mooch off them in rotation.
Good new: I carefully monitored my solar exposure today so I'm not bright pink or red. Bad news: I really should have stopped eating one burger earlier but the food was so damn good that I couldn't resist. Damn you, tasty food!
I have a dozen things I should get done tonight but I'm really too tired to do much. I'm going to keep my eyes open as long as possible, but I expect to be sawing logs by 10pm. G'night!
