It’s quite a lovely day today.
Food and flowers
Jon tells me all my recent posts are about food. He’s right, and it’s probably because when I cook it’s the only time feel creatively engaged at the moment. Not that I don’t have stuff to do – I’m trying my hand at film editing, for example – but when I cook I often feel sense of satisfaction, of skill. Not so to dtae for the flick, and I really have no idea how the celebrated bourgeois writers of the ast century madfe time or desire for writing in the face of leaky windows and moldy walls.
In ameliatory fashion, all four flowering fruit trees on our proppity have burst forth. The lord of them, a tall cherry in the back yard, has a distinct and lovely fragrance.
Burrrrn
The spots on my right hand where I foolishly, and twice, attempted to grasp the handle of a dutch oven containing our ham are mighty discomforted.
Ham
We made a bunch of food today. I burned the heck outta my hand getting the ham out of the oven.
La Rustica
Tonight we braved the wilds of westernmost West Seattle for a tasty sunset meal at La Rustica, a place I’ve often wished to try.
We enjoyed a delicious appetizer of broiled oysters with spinach, cheese, and pixie dust. Viv had some chicken deal, and I had a wild boar chop, wrapped in bacon. It was very good.
Viv variously enjoyed and was blinded by the setting sun over the waves. I personally ejoyed looking at my wife as she was brilliantly illuminated by the sunset.
On the drive home, Viv noted the neon in motion of a traveling carnival in the south parking lot of Northgate Mall. It’s cold tonight and they did not appear to be doing big box office.
Bick's
Viv did indeed eat the heat.
Mo comet
Viv and Tod giving me a hard time at the Comet, three pitchers in.
Chez comet
Tasty Sierra
gCal
Today’s the day! Google Calendar.
Windows
Viv and I are just now heading to the halfway mark of the third hour of a 60-to-90 minute visit with an in-home sales rep for a window replacement company. He’s estimating in the range of 20k to 30k for the project, which would cover nearly all of the windows on the upper floor of the house. That wouldn’t include some skylights and set of doors.
UPDATE: time check, 10 pm, still here.