A Most Memorable Meal



G and L invited us to a meal which turned out to be a beautifully prepared seafood feast. Appetizers began with broiled oyster with lime and habenero salsa. Second course with sizzling scallops, gai-lan, and nutty brown rice. Then steamed dungeness crab with scallion infused rice bran oil. A intermission of apples and oolong tea- ending with a beautifully carmelized pear upside down cake.

Happiest Girl in East Bay



All year I've been hopping up and down about replacing our suspicious toilet- twice as old as me.

C has been surprisingly resistant saying it was too much work and perhaps he would do it in February. C is a wiley one. On Friday I came home only to be shocked at a brand new shining unused toilet all plumbed and installed- the only time C has heard me screaming and jumping up and down. There is nothing more wonderful than having a toilet "all accounted for" as Suse puts it.



The house is under official prepare for coziness state as Big J and bro-in-law S-man will be here in no less than 2 days. An official welcoming wicker chair has been procured for the porch. Tomorrow I'll dig out my finest linens(supplied by J of course).

Sofbok and the true tales of Safari



Ms. Sof came back from her South African vacation, all smiles. She knows what she wants now. A boyfriend. It's always good to know what you want.

How to do whatever you want. If anyone objects, just say "You are not the boss of me!"