The paper was slightly wet when I picked it up this morning, and the weather didn’t improve much all day. Fortunately, we didn’t have to go anywhere.

We’re looking at the parashah of the week during Torah Study this year with an attempt to tie it to the writings of Mordechai Kaplan; this week, we started Leviticus and went straight into a discussion of sacrifices and their relationship to how we pray. We didn’t get very far into Kaplan, but we’re going to continue along the same track next week. People are getting more comfortable with Zoom, too.

It wasn’t raining (much) after Torah Study so we went out for a walk before watching the Torah Service from Shir Hadash – it was the only walk we managed today.

We had to stay home in the afternoon because we were expecting a wine delivery from Tobin James Cellars in Paso Robles – UPS said it would arrive between 3-7pm and we didn’t want to miss it. While we were waiting, we called two of our local favorite wineries, Silver Mountain Vineyards and Muns Vineyards and ordered wine from them for delivery next week. Then we made dinner (a balsamic and fig chicken meal kit from Nob Hill Markets); no wine arrived, though, and UPS’s map shows the truck back at their depot in Sunnyvale. Oh, well – we’re not out of wine, so delayed delivery isn’t a problem.

I worked on my photos some more – I’m up to October, 2000 and a trip to England and Germany. Progress!

We ended the evening by watching the Ring Cycle – well, the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Ring Reduced (23 minutes). If only we’d watched that last week, we could have watched the Metropolitan Opera’s free stream of the entire Ring Cycle this week! Sometimes, you just get lucky.

Today dawned chilly, with frost on the roof, so we decided to postpone our morning walk until it warmed up a bit. Instead, we talked with our son in Boston – he’s doing OK and staying busy at work (in his room, of course!). He’s been doing movie watch parties in the evening – I didn’t know that was a thing!

We decided today was the day to do “big” shopping, so I warmed up the car and we hit Nob Hill and Lucky for sale items and things too heavy to carry home by foot. The Lucky shopping center has quite a few restaurants, most of which were open for takeout (although Yogurtland is closed for the duration); we decided to pick up another take-and-bake pizza from Tony and Alba’s and had it for lunch.

Earlier in the day, Diane’s ophthalmologist had let her know that they had submitted a refill for one of her prescriptions; it was ready right after lunch, so we walked to CVS to pick it up and then got a few smaller items at Lunardi’s.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that they were not going to start the season until September, so I spent the afternoon cancelling our hotels for our June and August trips to Ashland.

I’m still waiting for United to officially cancel our flight to Taiwan so I can get a refund instead of a credit – I think that’s what is required, and even then, I’m sure I’ll have to do a chargeback with Chase. If anyone has gotten United to cough up a refund, please let me know how you did it!

We took yet another walk this evening and stopped at Safeway for salad fixings; the store was pretty empty, which made me happy – it was easy to maintain social distancing. Like the other stores, they now will only bag into new bags, but since we only had three items, doing it ourself was easy.

And then we came home and sang along with Friday Night service from Shir Shabbat.

Shabbat Shalom!