20 November: reading, talking, eating

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Again, Allan and I went to Salt Pub, this time for brunch with Our Kathleen.

Allan’s photo

an intensely rain and windy day

our view

a Bloody Mary

and eggs Benedict

Allan’s brunch

The sun came out! (Allan’s photo)

After a long catch up (we had not seen Kathleen since before the horrendous day of Nov 8), I finally had time to sit and finish a book I’d been pecking away at all week.

This reminds me of our good fortune in finding our “other halves”, Melissa and Dave of Sea Star Gardening:

I think it is rare to find another coupled pair with whom one can be completely at ease.  I’ve tried before and run into the problem of one half of the couple not liking us as well as the other, or us not liking one half of a couple as well as the other!  We seem to have found the perfect match now for our weekly dinners.

Below: A description of how women have to get things done (and it is not right):

Even though reading is going slowly because of having to keep up with the news, I had time to begin another book, this time a satisfying suspense novel set in Seattle.  Much of it made me happy in its descriptions of my former home town (age birth to 38).

Because I grew up in both my parents’ Craftsman house and my grandma’s much smaller Craftsman cottage, I loved this:

Cliff Mass, weather blogger, came onto the Seattle scene after I moved away.  His forecasts figure large in my storm season life down here.

Skooter helped Allan read a book on his Kindle.

And later Skooter was to be found napping in the dryer.

on nice warm about to be unloaded clothes (Allan’s photo)

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1995 (age 71):

Nov 20: 1:30-4:30  Spent some time trying to organize my garden books.  Then went outside and cut back plants in Tam and CTFB and picked up leaves and still have more in that area to pick plus all other areas.  So far I’ve got about 10 bags to shred.

1998 (age 74):

Nov 20:  Again peeled apples but I miscalculated and only had enough to fill 6 quarts.  Also peeled enough for 6 more trays to dry.