No rain, but sun. Amazing. It’s winter in the Northwest.
This interesting thing about the church in the woods is that you find yourself sleeping much later than you do elsewhere. I think it’s that the sun is filtered through the woods before it hits the church. If you waited for full sun it would be eleven in the morning.
This morning, in addition to the lox, bagels, and cream cheese for breakfast, I used the last of the pie dough to make five little tartlets. Two of the tartlets were the remaining salmon pate mixed up with the remaining cream cheese spread, and the other three were the left over sauteed white asparagus and sweet onions minced up and covered with a couple of small slices of really stinky brie — using the last of that up as well. Gourmet left overs. Back for thirty minutes and yum, yum, yum.
This afternoon I spent a couple of hours this afternoon at Sue and Dons — love drinking champagne in the afternoon! She also has decided to buy some more of my equipment:
- Nikon slide scanner — standard file size created from a slide — 50megs, great piece of equipment
- Video Projector — both computer or DVD/VHS input for those presentations you need to do.
- And as a gift I gave her my 250mg Zip driver for getting all those old files to a new system (also handles 100meg discs as well).
Her daughter and various kids were running around, but we did get the archival ink setup put on the big plotter I sold her – it was easy — I should have done that when I owned it! Even did a couple of test prints etc.
Dinner tonight is the left over Osso Buco (off bone at this point) served over rice, black-eyed peas for luck, a green salad for prosperity, and I think there might be some wine involved. I’m already into having my first Manhattan of the day — thanks to the Vya Sweet Vermouth that Lynne brought last night. Life is so hard.
So, today is New Year’s Eve. The bottle of champagne for midnight is chilling in the fridge. We’ve received cancellations from Misha and Jameson. It’s just us three boys tonight. And I’m fine with that — it’s kind calming. There seems to be a large collection (some of it mine) of old Hitchcock movies here at the church — somehow it works.
Happy New Year! It was fun seeing you today- we should have had another bottle! Thanks for the ink! With the screwy instructions I was sure it was going to be a pain-but once again you had the confidence to just do it. I printed several things and they turned out great-
The kids are off tomorrw and as much as I love them it will be nice to have a couple of weeks quiet (and a chance to clean the house) before the next batch arrive. Let us know when you are on the island-we’ll grill somthing I’ll get the next batch off to (the same address as before?)in a few days.