My bucket list when this is over:
Sushi at our favourite August 8
Haircut
Pedicure
Cleaning lady
Dinner at Canoe - we promised this to ourselves this week
BFF lunch
For Signs 2 I've been doing bathroom signs, just click on toilet in the tags/labels below this post.
We had a Zoom conversation with John's daughter and family.
John ventured out to Costco, he went during senior hours and left before 8 AM and finally got in the doors at 9.
On his return, he is really good at dividing all the meat into meal size packets.
John's memoji.
Ontario extended its state of emergency to May 12 during a special sitting of the legislature this week. The bill extends the order closing all non-essential workplaces, outdoor amenities, including parks and recreational areas, bars and restaurants. Social gatherings of more than five people are also prohibited.
I can see this billboard from our place. A house replaces the maple leaf on our Canadian flag.
LEARNING
As I continue cleaning and decluttering our photos I am also learning about some of the sculpture pictures we have taken. This week I have learned about Sergio Bustamante as I sort photos from Tlaquapaque.
NEW WORD
WHAT DOES SMIZE MEAN?
To smize is to smile with your eyes, usually in a sexy and playful way.
Together we have been working our way through The Blacklist.
For light-hearted, we have been watching Kim's Convenience, filmed here in Toronto.
I watched a documentary Children of Shame - How the Catholic Church Hid Away Hundreds of Irish Children.
Nuns and priests should be held to fully account for these atrocities, such a money making scheme condoned by the highest of the clergy of the Catholic church.
Pot roast leftovers with Indian spiced chickpea flatbread. This worked very well, I only made half the recipe and used onion and garlic powder, I'm lazy. Oh, and it's gluten free since it is made with chickpea flour! It is very thin so John suggested maybe we make the whole recipe but in one pan.
Ham potato au gratin and sauteed cabbage
Ham leftovers Thai steak salad wraps the marinade was very good but the salad dressing was rather bland.
My afternoon coffee, made by my barista, John. My tablet is missing for my reading.
I haven't baked as we are working on using up some stuff we have first.
I made chicken soup with the freezer leftovers. I added kale, onions, garlic and ham to it for lunch. I had bought a BIG bag of chopped kale a couple of weeks ago for $2.50 and frozen it.
A friend dropped off a package of homemade goodies which I froze.
I finished Pretty Girls and it was certainly a surprising ending!
Finished The Chain (a 7 day library loan), and it is definitely a page turner so far. McKinty is an Irish writer that I've read before. The first half was extremely interesting, but the second part became predictable and was a letdown.
I also started Holding Still For As Long As Possible, a Canadian writer. The story tells of a trans EMS worker in Toronto and spans a year in the lives of some twentysomethings.
Since we cancelled our extended winter trip because of the pandemic and we can't make plans for the foreseeable future, I am going to go into our archives and pull up some photos from other trips.
The miracle of the “Swallows” of Capistrano takes place each year at Mission San Juan Capistrano, on March 19th, St. Joseph’s Day. Swallows migrate 6,000 miles from Goya, Argentina to San Juan Capistrano in large groups.
In his book, Capistrano Nights, Father St. John O’Sullivan, Pastor of Mission San Juan Capistrano (1910-1933) tells the story of how the swallows came to call the Mission home.
Father O’Sullivan saw a shopkeeper, broomstick in hand, knocking down the conically shaped mud swallow nests that were under the eaves of his shop. The birds were darting back and forth through the air squealing over the destruction of their homes.
“What in the world are you doing?” O’Sullivan asked.
“Why, these dirty birds are a nuisance and I am getting rid of them!” the shopkeeper responded.
“But where can they go?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care,” he replied, slashing away with his pole. “But they’ve no business here, destroying my property.”
Father O’Sullivan then said, “Come on swallows, I’ll give you shelter. Come to the Mission. There’s room enough there for all.”
The very next morning, Father O’Sullivan discovered the swallows busy building their nests outside Father JunĂpero Serra’s Church.
Mission San Juan Capistrano received the nickname the “Jewel” of the Missions because of the Great Stone Church. Upon its completion in 1806 (9 years of construction), it was considered a modern marvel, an architectural gem. No other church compared in size or beauty on the West Coast of California.
Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano opened in 1986 and is located just northwest of Mission San Juan Capistrano. The church's design is patterned after the Mission's original stone church, which was destroyed in an 1812 earthquake. The interior was designed by historian Norman Neuerberg, who painted much of the decorative and sacred art which adorns the walls. The church was granted the status of minor basilica in 2000, and that of national shrine in 2003.
A prominent feature of the basilica is the Grand retablo, a 42-foot-high (13 m), 30-foot-wide (9.1 m), 16-ton altar-backing carved in cedar and covered in gold leaf which is stylistically reminiscent of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish colonial and Mexican colonial retablos. The retablo's focal point is the Trinity, composed of the crucifix, God the Father depicted as an ancient partriarch, and the Holy Spirit depicted as a dove. Beneath the Trinity is Our Lady of Guadalupe. Four saints included on the retablo are Saint Francis of Assisi - patron of the mission's founding order, Saint Joseph, Blessed JunĂpero Serra - the mission's founder, and Saint Kateri Tekakwitha - significant for the area's Indian population. The Retablo was designed and created by 84 artisans in numerous parts at the Talleres de Arte Granda in Madrid, Spain.
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