News of the week of May 23, 2023

• Josquin, Mille regrets
• Senfl, Es wollt ein Fraw zum Weine gahn
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Dowland,  All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Purcell, Five reasons

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

The Tuesday, June 6 meeting is cancelled. People are urged to take advantage of all the Boston Early Music Festival events instead.

There is a bathroom. I have cleared enough boxes from the dining room that we could actually meet there, but the boxes that are currently where the refrigerator is going to go will probably move into the middle of the dining room. (They also have to be unpacked into cabinets they are currently blocking access to.)

Eversource is saying “We cannot come this week, but we will surely come on Tuesday.” When they come, there will be a bathroom with hot and cold running water.

The occupancy permit is apparently quite close. My contractor is still vague on what he’s claiming when he applies for an occupancy permit, but he thinks it needs the gas hookup, the bannister for the stairs up to the second floor, and the appliance (or at least the stove) delivery. If the gas company really comes on Tuesday, this could in theory all happen before our next meeting on June 13. Stay tuned. In any case, we can have meetings there even without the occupancy permit, if we get enough boxes out of the way.

I’m getting a puppy. He’s currently scheduled to leave Arkansas on June 6, and get here 4-6 days later. They’re calling him Fred at the moment; we’ll see when he gets here what he wants to be called.

Some people say that his current striking blue eyes are likely to turn some other color, but other people say that if he still has blue eyes after more than two months, they’re likely to stay blue. Possibly a darker blue.