The kids and I will be gone for 9 days. We'll be enjoying some R&R at Karen and Brent's next week. Today will be spent packing and preparing. The cicadas are relentless these days around here. It's hot, muggy, sunny...a true summer.
Cap and I had some alone time in Manhattan this week and spent about an hour browsing here. It was a version of heaven for me.
I caught up on the first season of Mad Men and enjoyed it.
Hosted a lovely co-op dinner Wednesday night: Finnish carrot pancake, purple cabbage cole slaw, African peanut kale-pineapple-peanut stew, brown rice, chocolate chip cookies and iced peppermint tea with agave. Yum.
My first set of DPNs (double pointed needles) are purchased and waiting for me to cast on to knit my first hat (this one's for Gem). Wendy forwarded me the link to the website of the folks who made the needles and it is worth sharing here for this photo.
Travel plans have unexpectedly and quickly coalesced. Barb and Audrey are flying me out to Oakland in September because B's back is not predictably well enough for her to plan to travel east this fall, and Cap and I will use our time share week (a family gift) for a weekend away in Atlantic City of all places, later on in the fall :-)
(I wanted to go somewhere with ocean and good food, that was not more than a couple hours drive and was somewhere we'd never been before. And, of course, had to have a participating hotel.)
2 comments:
Hi:
I've been wondering where you've been. I see you've been busy. Maybe I'll get to see you when you're up here.
How have you been liking Mad Men. I taped the marathon on AMC and watched it all in about one week - which was probably a little too much. But i really enjoyed season 1. That said - I'm not sure if there is a single character on that show that I actually like! Funny.
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