Happiness for the holiday weekend is discovering that Goodwill is open 8:30 to 5:00 on Monday – so I don’t have to do my dirty job for the weekend, sorting clothes to be bagged to go to Goodwill, today, Saturday. I can put it off until tomorrow, and continue puttering, making tomato sauce, and cutting corn off the cobs to freeze and make corn salad.
I got the tomatoes for the sauce at the Saturday Farmers’ Market. Terese said in our meeting on Wednesday morning that she bought a 20-pound box for sauce; I got a 5 pound bag. They’re not plum tomatoes, they’re a small round variety. Some’re really ripe and a couple of them split while I was carrying them around the Market, and on the bike ride home. I didn’t even need to blanch those, the skin pulled right off. I made Marcella’s tomato butter sauce, but it took forever to cook down – those little round guys are meaty but not as dense as plum tomatoes.
Besides the tomatoes, I also bought a small, duck pin bowling ball size, Mark said, melon. And a mixed bag of plums, apples, and peaches, and a few small apples and a bunch of arugula. And 6 ears of corn to grill, Monday, I hope. Saturday night we had B.A.T.s, bacon, arugula, tomato sandwiches for supper with those last two tomatoes that were sitting in the plum bowl, and then went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron. Which as has been said by many a pundit all summer, was a big mess, yet entertaining. A fitting choice for a last popcorn movie of the summer. We didn’t have popcorn – we came home and finished last Sunday’s mixed fruit crisp.
It’s been kind of a weird week. Monday I got back from Chicago, and worked at home. Tuesday I thought I’d go for a walk first thing, but I took too long getting ready, so I biked to the library and returned a book instead, for a longer ride. I stayed at work until 6:00 getting my online classes ready. The hardware store called and said the screen I’d had re-stretched for the front door of the house I’m selling was ready, so I drove out and picked it up. I stopped at the pet store for catfood, but left without any. They didn’t have a good-sized bag of the kind I wanted, and the line at the check out was ridiculous. They only had one register open. There was a woman with a shopping cart with a puppy tied to it, full of stuff, all of which she was evidently returning. Two of the kids who worked there were having an earnest conversation next to the one open lane, but they disappeared into the back, without opening another register. I put the food back and left.
Wednesday was the first day of classes. I had a meeting to talk about REAP pie palooza, at Madison Sourdough, that I almost forgot, but remembered in time so that I was the 2nd one there – not late. I thought it was cute that both Miriam and Terese both got variant versions of a one egg breakfast: Terese had a hard boiled egg and a croissant – so the fat in the croissant – and Miriam had a fried egg with butter toast – so spreading the fat around in the butter. Ha. I had iced coffee and water, and then I had peach melba yogurt at work for my breakfast. I had online class at 7:00, so I left work at 4:00, and drove drove to E.. Wash and installed the screen. Class was OK.
Thursday was meetings all day. After work I biked over to an outdoor concert. Mark’s back was bothering him too much to come. I had a pork bun and a spicey tofu bun from the Umami food cart. Talked to a lot of people I knew, enjoyed Robbie Fulks much more than the headline band with a Neville brother in it, The Royal Southern Brotherhood. It’s the only one in the series I’ve been able to go to. Had a few Bilbo Bagginses from one barrel brewing – Al’s fave when he’s in Madison. I indulged in a third beer and felt justified in my choice because as I was walking away with it, I was accosted by three people waay drunker than me.
But going out on Thursday night (& that 3rd beer) meant I woke up at 5:00 AM Friday and couldn’t go back to sleep. So Friday was kind of a shitty day, too tired and worried about money. After work I biked over to E. Wash to check on things & dump the dehumidifier because the potential buyer was doing his inspection Saturday at 8:30 AM. I picked up a penny on the upstairs kitchen floor so I hope that gave me some luck. No word on the outcome of the inspection by end of the day Saturday – so I hope all the other cliches: “no news is good news” and ” bad news travels fastest” are all working for me too.
In fact I had no new emails at all between 4:30 and 11:30 Saturday when I went to bed and stopped checking. I’m so glad it’s a three day weekend.
