{"id":2172,"date":"2017-07-04T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:51:30","slug":"moving-out-moving-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/moving-out-moving-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving out, moving in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was kind of like watching a tennis match.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Belana&#8217;s parents were supposed to arrive at Chicago O&#8217;Hare at about 2:00 in the afternoon. Belana and her friend Kiera decided to take an early bus Chicago, so they could have a couple of hours downtown, then ride the blue line out to the airport and drive to Madison with the parents. Rach was here to teach a grant-writing working at MATC, so at 6:45 we were all in my car, taking the girls to the bus and Rachael to her office. I was in PJs, because I could come back home and bike in &#8211; I had a meeting at 9:30 so I had &#8220;lots&#8221; of time. I puttered around and got to work just before 9:00.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, of course the German visitors plane was delayed &#8211; they spent about 4 hours in the airport in Montreal. They didn&#8217;t get to Madison until about midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, that meant Mark and I could go to Ken Lonnquist&#8217;s 60th birthday bash. Ken, who&#8217;s played with about everyone for about forever, booked a bar, and put on what he called Geezerpalooza. Ken did a lot of music for kids, and had a gig doing environmental education in the schools with music, and that&#8217;s where the Bat song came from. When Al was about 7 years old he was a pretty big Ken Lonnquist fan, and loved the bat song, and since Al has a late October birthday I have lots of Halloween themed cookie cutters. I remember showing up at Ken&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve performance at Olbrich Gardens, it must&#8217;ve been either 1995-96 or 1997-97, with a tray full of bat cookies, in the hopes of getting him to do the song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/224108795\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/224108795\">Ken Lonnquist &amp; friends perform &#8220;Bat&#8221; at Geezerpalooza, Ken&#8217;s 60th birthday celebration<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user18764540\">Debra Shapiro<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I made a recording so that I could torment Al and it worked perfectly &#8211; when I showed it to him on Saturday, he couldn&#8217;t even take 10 seconds of &#8220;Bat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We took everyone to the Farmers&#8217; Market Saturday morning, and it couldn&#8217;t have been a more perfect trip. Not too crowded (we got there early), not too hot. We pulled apart a cheesey bread and and some morning buns while sitting on the grass, and called it breakfast. Mark and Rach and I went home, and Belana and her family continued touristing. Kiera came down to meet them. They all seemed to have a good afternoon, except Belana got a little sunburned.<\/p>\n<p>I biked to the co-op to get the rest of the non-farmers-market groceries and when I got back, Al &amp; Emma had arrived. They had an appointment to look at houses, and ended up finding one they liked enough to consider making an offer.<\/p>\n<p>Since there were all these people coming and we weren&#8217;t sure when, I decided to use my mom &amp; brother&#8217;s approach to feeding houseguests &#8211; I made a big pot of vegetarian pasta sauce, so that within minutes of their arrival we could be eating pasta.<\/p>\n<p>Well, since they arrived at almost midnight, we didn&#8217;t eat pasta on Friday, but we had it on Saturday. Along with creamed chard, salad &#8211; with sugar snaps and little tomatoes from the market, and choice of French blue cheese, cranberry vinaigrette, or garlic aioli dressings, homemade baguette, and I made a batch of cookies so that we could nibble some, and they could take a bag with them on the road. The big excitement was while getting stuff down to set the table, I knocked a glass into another glass, and it basically exploded. Emma swept, I wiped off counters with wet paper towel and shook out rugs, and Rach vacuumed while I was in the shower.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, my plan was to just put out breads and fruits and let people help themselves, and that all worked pretty well too. By 11:00, Belana was all moved out and by 1:00 Al was all moved in.<\/p>\n<p>After everyone left, the weather was weird &#8211; rumbling thunder but no rain; one heavy downpour, and then intermittent rain. But the basement didn&#8217;t leak, and I just hung out and kept washing sheets and towels and putting stuff back in it&#8217;s rightful place. Picking up and cleaning after all the houseguests, Belana&#8217;s move out, and Al&#8217;s move in.<\/p>\n<p>I made a cherry clafouti, a dessert that I often don&#8217;t like. They&#8217;re supposed to be quivering and creamy and usually seem dense to almost rubbery. But I used David Lebowitz&#8217;s recipe, and he seems to have the same feelings about clafouti that I do, and this one was pretty good. We walked to the movie theater to see Wonder Woman &#8211; so as not to risk parking our bikes in the open and get rained on &#8211; and then had clafouti for dessert when we got in. I didn&#8217;t remember that Wonder Woman&#8217;s origin story was WWI; I guess I tend to think of all those D.C. Comic heroes as WWII. I think she&#8217;s in that <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/JmpU1p\">big Jules Feiffer book<\/a>&nbsp;of comic book heroes that my brother got for Christmas in 1964 or 5, but it mostly talked about how she was a lost Amazon who had departed their secret island to aid the world of men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cherryclafouti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cherryclafouti.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cherryclafouti-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cherryclafouti-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monday I went for an early walk, worked a bit, did still more laundry, and spent time trying to finish the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/RPLK7k\">Underground Railroad<\/a>, because I thought it was due. But around 3:00 when I was getting ready to bike to the library, I checked and I was able to renew the book. Which I was pretty happy about because I was felt kind of worn out, so I tried to compensate by eating a lot. Houseguests, still recovering from my cold, emotional highs &amp; lows of kids moving out &amp; moving in &#8230;. Weird Tuesday 4th of July schedule, too, no doubt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2180\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2180\" class=\"wp-image-2180 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/july3dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/july3dinner.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/july3dinner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/july3dinner-454x450.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">July 3 dinner &#8211; Spanish rice and calabacitas, the New Mexican corn and zucchini dish<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was kind of like watching a tennis match. On Friday, Belana&#8217;s parents were supposed to arrive at Chicago O&#8217;Hare at about 2:00 in the afternoon. 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