1. Yeah, I would have preferred being outdoors, but the house needed spiffing up and so that's what I did today along with some grocery shopping. It was a good move. The house is even more comfortable and peaceful now that Charly's hair is vacuumed up, the sinks are clean, and there's a little less clutter around.
2. Carol and Paul hosted tonight's family dinner and Carol had the fun idea of serving a Mitford Family Dinner -- a meal based on food in the stories in Jan Karon's Mitford Series.
We started with a hot buttered brandy featuring apple cider (or was it juice?) and apple brandy. It was just the right drink for an October evening. Along with our cocktail, Carol and Paul served toasted pecans and roasted almonds.
The dinner was awesome. Carol has a Mitford cookbook and out of it she prepared a green salad with oranges and scallions, pork roast, cooked apples, roasted red and sweet potatoes with rosemary, and angel biscuits. Carol also plopped two bottles of wine on the table from Colter's Creek Winery of Juliaetta, ID: the Juliaetta Rose and the Koos Koos Kia Red.
We had a lot of catching up to do with each other -- so much going on! Christy's plumbing got fixed; Carol and Paul went to a PTO wine tasting in Wallace; Christy had reports from the Mullan pool where she goes to water aerobics; the library in Kellogg had a book sale; and there was more.
It was a great evening.
3. I arrived back home in time to watch the last few innings of the Astros and Yankees. When I joined the action, the game was tied at 2-2 and remained that way through some suspenseful innings. In the bottom of the 11th, however, Carlos Correa slammed a dramatic howitzer over the right center field fence, the Astro fans went nuts, the Astros broke into a raucous celebration at home plate, and now the series takes a day off and resumes at noon on Tuesday in Yankee Stadium. This series has the potential to be an epic one.
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