A Full Day

I’m leaving for Nebraska tomorrow. I’ve had a list of things I want to do before I go. As of yesterday morning, the list was almost done. On the list: filling my spare tire with air. I filled it, but it had a leak from the valve. I took it to my regular place, Mr. Tire at Harford and Taylor, and the guy looked at it, fiddled with it, and it was fixed. No charge! I love that place!

That was done by 10am, leaving me the whole rest of the day. What would I do? I decided to go to a shopping place called The Rotunda. It had a quirky comic book store that I went to years ago, and I was curious to see it again. Interestingly, the entire shopping center has been converted into the lobby of the offices for a new apartment complex that has been built around the original Rotunda. The theater that used to be there is gone too, but a new theater is being built with the apartments.

The apartments are hip and young looking. This wall was part of the scene. It says “Before I die…” and had chalk for people to write ends to the sentence. Most of the answers were thoughtful and nice.

I did not write anything. My list is a page on this website.

There was still a lot of day left, so I wanted to do something else before going home. I’ve heard a lot about the Cylburn Arboretum, and it wasn’t very far away, so off I went.

The arboretum is nice. There were lots of beautiful flowers and mature trees. The centerpiece of the property is the mansion. Unfortunately, it wasn’t open yesterday.

It looks like a house from a movie.

When I got home, I had a few garden things to attend to. I got a few goldfish for my pond. It seems like I stock it every summer, and every spring there aren’t many fish left. Either they’re dying, or something is taking them. The pet store sold them for 35 cents each, so I got twenty.

Hopefully these will make it to next summer.

I also had a bunch of seeds that I bought in the spring, but never planted. Since I’ll be gone for a few weeks, I decided to just sprinkle the seeds here and there, and find out if any of them have grown when I get back. It will be fun to see.

Some of my favorites.