Worldle, Podcasts, and Echocardiograms

Welp, I finally finished another podcast here.  Lately Maddie has been listening in here and there as I've been running through these podcasts about history.  We started out with podcasts that followed each President, even William Henry Harrison.  After that, a podcast on the different Amendments of the Constitution, which was actually pretty fascinating.  The story behind the Twenty-Seventh Amendment is pretty funny and interesting, and some of the other stories have been very intriguing.  The "cruel and unusual punishment" Eighth Amendment brought us back to Parchman Farm, which the made me go back and watch once more the movie, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"  

The latest was a podcast called "Moonrise," which has a whole lot of behind-the-scenes info on the Space Race, and a lot I hadn't heard before.  It's been interesting stuff.  Maddie listens in sometimes on the way to taekwondo or school or whatever.  Despite all you know, there's always more to learn.  I've got so much information about the Space Race in my head, about individual astronauts and missions and locations and incredible stories, but this was a broader overview about the leadership and motivations to go.  It's been good, anyway, and makes me want to watch the old Disney television shows about some day going to the moon and beyond.  I like listening to music and whatnot on the treadmill, but there are a lot of interesting historical podcasts to listen to as well, and there's always something else new to learn.

It was a quiet day.  The birds are here in force, including the yellow rump pine warbler, which seems to love the grubs Mom puts out as much as those bluebirds.  And yes, the bluebirds are here and it's nice to see the guys feed the girls some grub they found.  The male cardinal does that too, and the onlookers from inside the house sit there and go, "Awwwwww!"

We were out to various thrift shops today, looking for costuming material for the apostles and Bible characters.  We were looking for leather belts and straps and even satchels and purses.  And along with the trip to the thrifts shops, we were out looking for various fabrics too, which Mom got a lot of for sewing together some of those costumes.  

I had an echo cardiogram today, which is one of those things where they scan your heart in this nice little quiet room.  I was there at the second floor of the heart center in Gainesville, and there wasn't much of a wait, although there was a good bit of people there waiting for various appointments and procedures.  Mine was just a routine check on things to make sure all was well.  The pictures came out well, from what I understand, although my blood pressure has been up lately.  I attribute that to the immense amount of stress of the production, the new series, the current series, and not really having any down time at home.  At least not that much.  I have to go and hide sometimes, which I don't like to do in my own house of course.  But it is what it is.

We had a productive day today.  One amusing thing that is growing a lot is our group's obsession with the game "Wordle."  Each morning we start out, and Mom and I are doing the same word that Maddie is working on a little later, and all our other friends are online attempting to figure it out as well.  It's not uncommon to get a random text that just says, "THREE!"  And I know exactly what that is - the person sending that got the word in three tries, which is pretty good!  Maddie has been right there along with all of us, sometimes befuddled by a word or sometimes bragging about solving it so quickly, just like the rest of us.  

We had taekwondo tonight, both leadership and black belt classes, and the classes are getting pretty full.  It's great to see such a thriving comeback after the last few years of pandemic challenges and online classes and so on.  Now it seems fuller than it's ever been, and Maddie's right there in the middle of it all, helping other newer students and improving upon her own skills.  Nana and I sit there and watch while Mom has been at home sewing costuming together for Easter.  There's still so much to be done there, and it's quite stressful, which may account for the blood pressure issues. 

Anyway, tonight we read from our adventures with the Kingdom Keepers, and after that we prayed.  It was a quiet day, but some of us got Wordle in three, so it was a good day.