Mark and his son and son’s girlfriend are off at Lollapalooza, leaving me and Rachael to have what Rach has started calling the “longest sleepover party of the summer”. I’m just trying to have some normal weekend fun before the new distance student’s bootcamp starts on Monday morning.
We started with a pedi, after work – I have shiny purple toes now.
Purple toes – color #59 at the salon
A friend – Peter, the architect, came over for dinner. He’s in the process of selling the house in the country where he lived with his former boyfriend David (a librarian), buying a new place, and moving there – farther out in the country. For apps, I made zucchini butter tartines, the zucchini butter I made yesterday, spread on grilled bread – really good. Then I made this crazy Heidi salad with way too many ingredients, a kind of cabbage slaw with green beans (I used frozen), yellow raisons, croutons, toasted walnuts, slivers of cheese, and a homemade mayonnaise with cream & hardboiled egg yolk. we ate it on mixed greens, instead of arugula. I’ve made it before – seemed to go together easier this time. We ate huge bowls of it, and then had Ben & Jerry’s ice cream – Willie Nelson peach cobbler and coffee heath bar crunch – with giant raspberries.
Giant raspberries
I forgot to chill the wine so we made spritzers, with ice & wine & elderflower liquer & lemon fizzy & lime wedges.
Tomorrow, AM – farmer’s market, a little yoga, a few errands. A little cooking for a brunch to be delivered on Sunday morning, that I raffled off in the SLIS silent auction in April for National Library Week.
Somehow I thought I’d finish posting the Tour de Jen tonight – but uh uh – think I’ll go crash on the couch instead. Here’s one more:
Stop sign squirrels
