What's Going OnWe had friends over (!) for dinner last night. I made Cauliflower Curry from the Vegetarian Epicure cookbook. I served it with whole grain pita wedges and basmati and wild rice with chick peas in it. For dessert, I made vegan brownies which I served with vanilla Soy Dream and vegan chocolate chips. I also put out some Connecticut grown strawberries. Our friends brought a bottle of wine which we all drank. We had a nice time.This morning I got up and watched the French Open. Kind of "blah" finals this year. It was pretty clear during each match that both Henin and Nadal had it in the bag. I watched another Poirot video. I'm now onto Disc 10. Then Sweetie and I went to the cemeteries to check on the flowers. The impatiens at my dad's grave are doing great (the alyssum isn't but there isn't much of that anyway). I gave them some water and also checked out the footstone (not just a "marker") with his name, dates and the fact that he was a Corporal in the US Army during the Korean War. The footstone looks really nice. Too bad I forgot to bring my camera. We also went and found my great grandparents' grave.Then we went to the Catholic cemetery to check out Nana's grave. The flowers there look all right so far. I gave them a lot of water and then pointed out another grave to Sweetie because it is planted really nicely AND because I was struck by the fact that two children predeceased the parents by quite a few years.On the way back from the cemeteries Sweetie's car broke down. I called for help on my cell and then these two women came over and said they would help us push the car out of the road. They were so quick, and I was so blown away that I didn't help them at first (Sweetie was steering), but then I recovered my senses and ran over and joined the pushing. I think I said "thank you; that was so nice" about five times to them.I had a really bad stomach ache all day, but it finally went away while we waited for the tow truck. Since we were in the parking lot of a Blockbuster, Sweetie went and got some trail mix and a lemonade. There was copy of the New Yorker in the car so I read part of an article about Manny Ramirez and part of an article on a Chinese political prisoner, Zha Jianguo.We rode in the tow truck to the service station. Sweetie had already scheduled an appointment for an oil change there tomorrow anyway. Then the driver gave us a ride most of the way home, which was nice. We're only about 2 miles from the service station, but still he didn't have to go that way.Now I'm going to go sit outside and drink a Reed's Extra Ginger Brew and read the rest of the article about the Zha Jianguo.Labels: family, food, friends, life at home posted by Miss Rachel 6/10/2007 05:09:00 PM . . .
Labels: family, food, friends, life at home
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