Day 494: Book club
Jul. 22nd, 2021 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeTonight was book club, at AF's, which is always fun because we walk down through the neighborhood park then let ourselves in through a gate from the park into their yard, make our way through all the vines and branches of their garden, then sit on their elevated deck surrounded by trees and potted plants (the latter were mostly tomatoes and a small coffee tree). There were just five of us - our hostess, JS, T, and LL (who is Italian and very entertaining). JS lives a bit beyond the neighborhood, so I invited her to park at my house so she could get the full "walk down through the park" experience, and T. met us at the end of the street for that part of it.
As usual, we didn't talk about the book all that much. LL had just bought an electric bike, which she used to ascend the steep hill to Spencer Butte Park (the butte is the hill in my icon). We're at 535 feet above sea level and the top of the butte is around 2000 feet; the steep hill climbs much of that to the butte's parking lot. Anyway, she reached rather shocking speeds coming back down the hill after!
We start at 7 pm and are usually done by 9, but this time we were still going at 10. The four of us walked back through the park together, with several attempts to photograph the full moon, and some very entertaining stories from T. about a strange tradition they'd had in her sorority involving carrying a fake coffin through campus and singing a song to the music of "American Pie" about a legendary young woman whose wake they were pretending to hold.
As usual, we didn't talk about the book all that much. LL had just bought an electric bike, which she used to ascend the steep hill to Spencer Butte Park (the butte is the hill in my icon). We're at 535 feet above sea level and the top of the butte is around 2000 feet; the steep hill climbs much of that to the butte's parking lot. Anyway, she reached rather shocking speeds coming back down the hill after!
We start at 7 pm and are usually done by 9, but this time we were still going at 10. The four of us walked back through the park together, with several attempts to photograph the full moon, and some very entertaining stories from T. about a strange tradition they'd had in her sorority involving carrying a fake coffin through campus and singing a song to the music of "American Pie" about a legendary young woman whose wake they were pretending to hold.