Wanderlander 44

 Here’s what we’ll be eating the next few days with Jim and Meredith for their visit, thanks to my vigorous kitchen activities today.  Friday evening: Pot roast (prepped today and ready for the crockpot tomorrow am) and salad (totally prepped) Saturday morning: French toast (prepped four kinds of fresh berries today. Will prep the custard and bread and pan tomorrow at some point. Saturday afternoon: Sandwiches (thawing the turkey breast overnight so I can cook it in the crock pot tomorrow. Prepped the lettuce today) with crisper ( prepped today) and pretzels Plus carrot cake! (Thawed my homemade second layer that we didn’t use on Mom’s actual birthday. Plan to whip cream Saturday morning.) Saturday evening: Avi and Mom will join us for poached salmon (prepped the yogurt dill sauce today), broccolini (cleaned and dressed today and ready for roasting) and coconut rice (will do in crockpot Sat am.) Sunday Morning: Porridge w Berries and yogurt (finished a fresh batch of yogurt to...

 At 7:00 am the sun had only been up for a little bit longer than I had. Autumn is coming. I wore my overalls and a fuzzy jacket to go outside! But I still had bare feet…so it’s not here yet.   I moved a small lawn chair to the side path and watered the garden while I journalled. (I would have just hung the hose on the fence and let the “shower” setting do the trick…but the last time I forgot about it and flooded the whole garden all they way down to the back yard. So, I don’t trust myself to walk away anymore.) Did yoga in the basement with PJ, #4 in Adrienne’s “Move” series. Today is my first day back on the yoga schedule after a two day break. Before that, I think I had a 41-day streak! Tried to take care of K a little bit. She’s feeling very poorly today. Spending most of the day in bed. Took the dogs on a 4+ mile walk from the house, down to the tow path, across the ferry hill trail, back along the river and home.  Stopped to visit Emily at work and invite her and Av...

Today was a big day of mostly nothing. Relaxed on the sofa, read “Tale of Murasaki.” Attended a 60-minute ACFF zoom meeting with the Development Director Search Committee. We are offering the position to Jennifer Lee, the former executive director. I’m thrilled. This is the lightest lift for me, as she will need almost no training. Took the dogs for a very short, meandering “sniffy” walk around the neighborhood. Went to bed early. Tried not to feel remorseful about having spent this truly lovely late summer day inside. Otherwise, it was delightful.

Karen, Mom and I went to Chambersburg for the Plein Air Festival. They both took a ton of photos which I will be happy to have access to later. I just enjoyed the day. Overcast. Slightly humid, but with a light breeze. Never got above 78 degrees is my guess. It was thrilling to see artists working early in the day and then see their finished canvases on display after lunch. Some I loved had been, to my eye, ruined. Others which seemed like mistakes in subject and compositions turned out pleasantly interesting. I would like to be a plein air artist, but I don’t think I would like to participate in an event like this…to have strangers interrupting my work…and then be judged!  We had a truly delicious lunch at the deceptively named Falafal Shack.  Then drove just 15 minutes to the Lesher Dairy Farm to pick sunflowers. The peak must have been a little earlier this year. It wasn’t nearly as vibrant and spectacular as it was last year on the 7th, but since Karen hadn’t ever been bef...

I spent the morning mostly on the sofa, reading “The Wedding People,” a book Kendra (who owns our local independent bookstore, Four Seasons) gave me yesterday afternoon.   I finished straining the new batch of homemade yogurt I made yesterday and brought some over to Joanne. She’s been feeling low since she started taking antibiotics. I’m hoping these live cultures, plus the pro-biotic pills I took her yesterday, will help her recover her gut. I’m gonna have to make more homemade granola again soon, we only have a little bit left.  I guess I must have walked the dogs, and did some yoga, and all those regular things. I know I didn’t do any journalling, because I am writing this 2 days later. In the evening, I biked downtown for something called a “pop up book club.” It was just Kendra, three other people, and me…although Chassidy hung out with us for a little big when she finished her work shift up at the register. We met in the back room on the main floor, instead of ups...