1. After the early afternoon’s mix of rain, hail, and snow that didn’t stick, vividly blue skies in the late afternoon. In Seattle. In January.
2. Shopping for and installing shelves and a work surface in the closet of our third bedroom, aka the home office. One giant step for our plans to decrease the disorder in our house.
3. The video of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing the theme from Shaft at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Really, this is a big, laugh-out-loud joy, not just because Shaft played on ukuleles and sung by middle-aged white Brits is ridiculous on the face of it; they throw in obscure folk music jokes, too! Seriously, these folks are talented. If Shaft isn’t your cup of tea, they also play (around with) Handel, and David Bowie: