\nI finished the “Da Vinci Code” this weekend. I highly recommend it to you. I’ll have more to say in a following entry, but anyone who has every read anything about the pursuit of the Holy Grail will be interested in this book. I was so fascinated that I went to the computer to surf to see if I could discover what parts of the book were fact and what were fiction.
\nI’m trying to finish up quilting projects that have been waiting for my attention for years! One of my nieces has been waiting three or four years for her quilt. It’s on the frame and needs two or three nights of hand quilting, some machine quilting of script in the border and a binding, and it will be done. She was hoping she might have it in two years when she turns 16. I told her I was shooting for her 21st birthday. I created a quilt top about twelve years ago with the signatures of two generations of my family. It’s been languishing in the closet. I finally decided to pull the pieces together and send it off to be quilted. I’ve been making it for my mother, who will be 87 on December 7th. Today, she saw me working on it, and asked who it was for. I couldn’t come up with a lie fast enough, so the cat’s out of the bag. Oh well.
\nWill you be handing out candy on Halloween? Each year I buy it, and each year we get to eat it. We’ve had one trick or treater in fourteen years. We have a very long driveway with a “dog-leg” bend in the middle, lined with trees. I guess kids are too frightened to make the trek up to the house, or more likely, they figure it’s too much work for a little bit of candy.
\nHave you seen the stamps with the drawing of the Alaskan tundra? I was so delighted with the drawing that I bought one. A sheet has ten stamps, and each of the stamps is a small part of the picture. Check them out.
\nWe had a guest to dinner last night. We served flank steak, peas with onions, shoepeg corn, Italian bread, a salad composed of romaine, red cabbage, julienned carrot strips, diced red pepper and cherry tomatoes. It wasn’t until we were contemplating dessert that DH mentioned that the baked potatoes were still sitting on the island in the kitchen. None of us had missed them. I sent our guest an e-mail today listing the different kinds of potatoes we would have the next time he visited: double baked, mashed, potato leek soup, French and American fries, potato pancakes, German potato salad, hash browns, etc. He was a really good sport about our gaffe. We cut the potatoes up tonight and used them in Potatoes Anna.
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