We begin our retrospect of my week last week with last Sunday.

Why am I writing like I am a script writer for the Twilight Zone? I have no idea.

Maybe I’m just going a little squirrely because our area is still experiencing rain, cold, and wind instead of sun and warm days that I can spend on my front porch reading.

I was able to do that one day this past week and it was lovely.

We were, however, immediately plunged into cold again.

But I am jumping ahead. Let me go back to last Sunday when my family went to see The Husband in a play in a town near us.

He played a couple of different parts in a play based on the radio show War of the Worlds by Orson Wells.

It was a small cast of five very talented people who pulled the play off in brilliant fashion. It was a play within a play so it was a radio program telling the story of the original radio production of A War of the Worlds in 1938 and the aftermath. The director of the local play then tacked on a very interesting ending about how radio was a major source of news before that broadcast and then became even more of one in the subsequent years. The ending also touched on how news has become a 24/7 business now with it constantly at our fingertips, which isn’t always a good thing.

My parents were able to attend the play with us and it was the first time my mom had been out of the house since before Christmas because of her health issues and the weather.

She looked great and had a lot of fun. Dad did as well.

He found a vintage-style hat to wear for the occasion and afterward, I grabbed a photo of him and The Husband in their hats and a few photographs with Mom and Dad as well.

I also recorded a small “review” video from them afterward which was a lot of fun to make.

I’m, of course, sharing it here for you:

Dessert and drinks were offered during the play held in a large room in a community building in a town used for various events.

The Husband played an announcer and then a newspaper reporter, which was pretty much up his alley considering that’s his actual job. A former newspaper editor, a former boss of mine, portrayed Orson Wells and a couple of other parts.

When we first got there and my mom saw the program, she thought they had left The Husband’s name off and she was very indignant until I showed her where his name was.

She’s very defensive of her son-in-law, obviously.

On Monday we hoped to see some of the eclipse, even though I was nervous it might blind my children, but right when it was supposed to start, dark clouds moved in. We watched it on the TV instead and watched it get very dark outside. We were in the about 95 percent totality range where we are in Pennsylvania.

It was a very interesting experience, but would have been more interesting if we could have seen it live, I think.

The weather we could have used on Monday came Tuesday when warm, sunny weather set in. Little Miss and I spent much of the afternoon and evening outside doing schoolwork, reading, and for her, making a blanket fort on the porch swing.

By Wednesday it was raining and cold again and stayed that way the rest of the week, including today.

Luckily, we didn’t really have anywhere to go so we mostly stayed inside and did some schoolwork.

There was one creature who didn’t stay inside, however.

Wednesday night our neighbor sent us this photo:

It was taken from their doorbell camera and shows their backsteps and yard, which is about 15 feet, maybe, from our back porch.

Our neighbor told me what time the photo was taken and it was about the same time I had let our dog out the night before. She was sort of growling at something (the dog, not the neighbor) and now I know it was the bear.

So that was unsettling to find out. I now make sure to lock our outside screen door, the hinge of which was broken in some high winds a month or so ago and has been blowing open in the wind and the last thing I want is to open the inside door to look out to see if the bear is on the porch and be face-to-face with it.

While this past week was boring, next week should be a little more interesting since The Husband is on vacation and we plan to take a couple of day trips and simply spend some time together as a family. One trip will be to Reptile Land, which my daughter absolutely loved going to in the fall. She’s been waiting for months to go again.

So far, the weather is looking like it will be much warmer next week and less rainy. We will see, though, since Pennsylvania is always throwing us curve balls when it comes to weather.

Today we will be baking cookies with my mom and dad in the afternoon, after The Husband takes The Boy to see a friend who recently moved 45 minutes away.

The Boy will be spending the night and will be back tomorrow afternoon sometime.

I hope to spend my evening sipping tea and watching Lark Rise to Candleford or Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman with Little Miss since The Husband will be working.

How was your week last week?

If you are in the U.S., were you able to see the eclipse?

Did you have nice sunny weather where you were?

I’d love to hear/read about it.