1. Molly and Brian arrived safely today in Boise. Soon 🤞they'll find a suitable place to move into and, before long, Molly will start her new job. So far, so good.
2. For us oldsters in the family, Molly and Brian's departure means fewer people around the board at family dinner, just Carol, Christy, Debbie, Paul, and me. Tonight, Carol prepared a superb beef roast (in the chuck roast family of beef cuts) with mashed potatoes, Christy prepared awesome candied parsnips and carrots, and I assembled about three quarters of the Yokes' produce department 🤣🤣🤣 in a large bowl and brought a jam packed green salad with a honey lemon mustard vinaigrette I threw together -- and a bottle of Litehouse Blue Cheese dressing.
It was a perfect dinner and we had a lot to talk about, especially with Debbie preparing for a two week trip to New York and the suburbs of Chicago. She flies out of Spokane on Saturday.
3. While I was in the process of buying out Yokes' produce section, I have no idea who the somewhat older than I am man was who stopped at the asparagus display, saw me assessing onions, and began to tell me about his uncle in Arizona who grew such delicious and costly asparagus that he hired armed guards to protect it. He also instructed me about the fine points of asparagus in the Twin Falls, Idaho area and told me things I'd never known about wild asparagus and driving around looking for it with scissors in the car and leaping out and snipping stalks upon finding some.
Then we each toddled off.
I was marvel struck.
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