Last night Mark & I had the “washer’s unbalanced” argument again. When I hear it thudding in the basement, I always run down and rearrange the clothes in the washer tub to get it spinning straight again, but he contends that it should be left alone, and will right itself. “If it’s really outta whack, […]
I made this salad on 4th of July – it’s from Plenty, the cookbook from London’s trendiest deli, Ottolenghi. Grilled zucchini, basil leaves, toasted hazelnuts, shaves of Parmesan, olive oil. It was really good freshly made, but I took the leftovers for lunch and the basil tasted like soap – I just closed up the […]
Went for a walk this morning and tried to document the heat wave. I followed the bike path to the cemetery and came back through the neighborhood. Things were pretty deserted – most folks staying inside, sealed up in air conditioning – but there were people out on the bike path trying – like me […]
I saw a newspaper headline today that said that the mid-week 4th of July holiday is confusing would-be vacationers & tourists – it’s too hard to make the Wednesday 4th add into a 3- or 4-day weekend, and nobody wants to burn the extra days off work, or figure out when to travel, when to […]