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Welcome to ANI In The Air, Under The Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings ons, ins and arounds, arts and ideas at Mary School.
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So today was a pretty beautiful day.
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It was actually a little, slightly cold under the tent, a little bit of wind, but quite
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warm in the sun.
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Looks like some students have chosen to use the dappled shade of our artsy umbrella in
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the middle of the field, so that's kind of cool to see.
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There was some more Gaga Ball playing today.
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Had a nice JC run by a student today, was trying it for the very first time, and hopefully
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we'll be happy to continue, it sounded like it went well.
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And we had Article Club, a little post-modernist piece that was actually a pretty challenging
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read and quite a philosophical conversation.
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So that was kind of fun.
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So then, what else, I don't know, I feel like I've been in meetings all day long, but it
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seemed like everybody was having a great time.
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Lots of eating outside, lots of talking, we had a couple of students who have come in
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from online and come today for the first time in a long time, and earlier in the week we
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had another couple that came in from being online, and yeah, so our numbers of in person
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are, well, seeing people we haven't seen in over a year, it's kind of nice.
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We are people who are obeying our medical policies, so they're self-quarantined after
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some travel or some other kind of COVID questionable scenario, so we appreciate that, but we are
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sad to not have them here in person, but of course it's just a short quarantine.
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So no COVID cases are at all reported to us, so don't mean to alarm that.
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What else, yeah, our blossoming trees along the Walther Avenue are slowly losing their
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flowers and becoming green-leaved.
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That's fun to watch, I guess that's about it.
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So it's Thursday, so tip of the week Thursday, let's say that you have a little balcony,
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shall we say, just a random example with awning going over it and maybe an iron railing, and
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maybe you'd like to have that screened in.
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Now the proper way of doing that is probably with some kind of wood structures and some
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window meshing and nice rigid and all well done and way beyond what I'd prefer to do,
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but you could also just get some gazebo mosquito meshing and attach it to the frame and see
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how it goes.
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That's what I did over the weekend.
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So far it's holding up, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when we get a storm
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of wind, the wind is picking up, it's getting excited to try to tear it all down.
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I guess we'll see, I'm hoping because it's netting that the wind will kind of mostly
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whistle through it and not be too strong on it, but it's been, well, I mean sitting out
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here under the tent I don't have any bug problems right now, but I am anticipating that this
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will be a great thing, particularly when those cicadas come out.
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I'm not particularly fond of having cicadas all over my balcony, probably have a lot over
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my yard, I've got a number of trees and, or used to have a number of trees, so we'll see
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how all that goes, but anyway.
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And as I think I mentioned in a previous podcast, I will not be doing a podcast tomorrow, it's
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my birthday, and so I take the day off, and I take a 24 hour period of both silence and
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fasting.
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It's exciting.
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So I will say farewell for the week to you now, it was a good week in terms of the weather,
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and the chickens love to get out and strut about, looking at one right now, oh chickens,
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and yeah, just excited to see springtime arriving and lots of activity out in the field, and
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yeah, well, I guess that's about it, I've rambled enough, have a great one, and I will
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see you when I see you... hopefully Monday.