{"id":88467,"date":"2025-05-14T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=88467"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T00:32:08","slug":"theater-day-2-the-staircase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=88467","title":{"rendered":"Theater Day #2; The Staircase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finally finished the Mother’s Day website for 2025<\/a><\/strong>. It takes one or two days to select from the 110 images I took with the camera and prepare some of the overheard chatter into captions. It’s fun to go back and see the images years later.<\/p>\n

Today was Wednesday, and that means bodily punishment complete with whips and chains. This morning, we got there a little early, and I rode 4.89 miles, losing about 150 calories along the way!\u00a0 We are happy to report that no bones were broken, nor were any tendons snapped; we made it out alive.<\/p>\n

We stumbled back home, and Mary whipped up a breakfast\/lunch so delicious it could win a Michelin star! I half-expected the Egg McMommys to start doing the cha-cha.\u00a0 Out new toaster does an amazing job and it even handles bagels!<\/p>\n

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A new type of Egg-McMommy was served along with a fruit salad.<\/p><\/div>\n

The cleaning staff rolled in around 1:30 p.m., so we had to channel our inner tornado and clean the house before they showed up! It was like a race against time\u2014who knew dust bunnies could move so fast when you\u2019re trying to shoo them away?<\/p>\n

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They even dress up around our house.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the afternoon, my resident artist took to her perch and worked on Binx the Cat.\u00a0 I took the opportunity to sit with her and we watched more “The Blacklist”; we are now half way through the 288 episodes.<\/p>\n

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QUIET PLEASE: Artist at work!<\/p><\/div>\n

We are off to the Silver Trumpet again tonight, and I plan to have my one martini and then eat light so I will stay awake during the play.\u00a0 We had an amazing dinner, and I managed to order small portions!\u00a0 The lamb lollipops were fantastic.<\/p>\n

BTW: The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by\u00a0Sarah Josepha Hale<\/a>\u00a0on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident<\/p>\n

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Oh My!!!! Out of this world!!<\/p><\/div>\n

I was going to do my secret rendition of chopsticks but alas, we ran out of time!<\/p>\n

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The player piano was doing its thing!!<\/p><\/div>\n

Dinner was delightful, the martini has bid us farewell, and we’ve got 20 minutes to waddle\u2014yes, waddle\u2014across the street to the theater! If we don’t make it in time, we might just end up starring in our own comedy show right here!<\/p>\n

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Summary:\u00a0 A Mother and Son spend their evenings playing cards and retelling stories of Hawaiian legend. Better those than their own, which lurk below the surface. When Son\u2019s former sweetheart resurfaces, both he and Mother must choose how they will embrace the future. A mysterious tale about holding on, letting go and the curious force that pulls us back home.<\/p>\n

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We all enjoyed the play, albeit quite different from what we expected.\u00a0 The dialogue was funny yet serious.<\/p>\n

We ventured back to the restaurant to rescue our cars from the parking lot prison, then zoomed home like we were in a high-speed chase\u2014minus the cool car stunts, of course. Overall, it was a delightful evening filled with laughter, good food, and the strange realization thatwe will be back on the 21st to see Tom Jones!<\/p>\n

Paula and Dan are Mary’s financial advisors and keep her in cash!<\/p>\n

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