Summer Journal 2012, July 27

Does your Doag Bite - (I thought of  the Peter Sellers line yesterday at the beach.)  Our niece, Mary (who is my age) has a little nervous Dobermanish dog that she has been toting to the beach and doting over for two years.  Of course, he/she? is a magnet for little kids.  Yesterday her doag bit a little child on the beach and because the bite broke the skin and there was blood, she and the grandfather of the child had to find the pediatrician, who I think only put some antiseptic on the wound.  Mary was really rattled, but this was just the beginning, because when she went back to the beach some litigious older woman started screaming at Mary saying that dogs were not permitted on the beaches - there was regulations and people were going to sue and Mary was going to have to pay a huge fine.  She was really upset.  Stell and her husband, Ioannis told her to keep the dog at the apartment where she lives, but she says if she leaves it alone it barks constantly and the neighbors complain.  Dog Catch 22.

Here are a couple of little girls sitting at the bar who will really miss the little dog:

Niki and Friend

The set for Medea by Euripides

Last night I went to see the play, Medea.  Outstanding.  I read it online before going.  So many of my friends were perfoming.  First Stell and I went to this little church service for St. Pandelimon's Day, and then Stell skipped the play and went to eat with the Fat Cats at Toristico, but I went to the play and sat with Yiannis and Katerina Foras.   It was packed.  I had taken a photo of the plastic chairs set up earlier in the day.

Demetri as Jason

My friend, Demetri (son of Pericles and Despina), played Jason.  He was hilarious and a superb actor.  Because this was a modern translation, part of his role was to imitate Michael Jackson dancing which included the Moon Walk.  His costume was wonderfully outrageous.

Maria's twin sister

Before the play we walked by the New Elysee Sweet Shop hoping to get a picture of Maria for Chris. We thought we had taken it, when the young woman in the photo explained that she's Maria's twin sister (can't remember her name), and that Maria would be arriving later.  They are identical!  I don't know if we will ever catch up with Maria because we don't frequent this shop, but at least we caught her twin. 

Does she need new bluejeans?

I'm almost a 100 pages into Lost Prophet:  The Life and Times of Bayard Ruskin.  Today we are going to hear six of Stella Kokini's students do botany presentations about the herbs and other plants found on Halkidiki that were here at the time of Aristotle.  She likes us to critique her students.  Amazing because I only know I like herbs a lot.