After C’s shower for her soon-to-be daughter-in-law yesterday, it’s a quiet Sunday today. We went to the community garden with Merrill who brought some tomato cages for us. The tomato plants and the pepper plants are the only ones that survived the flood from the rain. Our lot is at the lowest part of the whole area and the extra rain just totally rotted out the other vegetables that Leo planted. We met Dick whose lot is more to the middle and his garden is so beautiful full of grown plants and free of weeds. He said he goes to the garden 3 times a week. No wonder! Later, Leo cooked the beef stew and I made the Foccacia bread from Michael Chiarello’s recipe. The stew was great but the bread was a bit disappointing. I didn’t leave it enough time for the last rising before I put it in the oven so it’s not as risen as it could be. Will try again next time.
C did a wonderful job for the shower. She transformed her living room into a blue heaven. Three round tables decorated with blue ribbons on the chair and blue napkins. Jan made center pieces with white hydrangea in a box with blue ribbon and there is even a blue martini (name My Blue Heaven) to boot. We did line dancing before lunch and J did a impromptu singing of the song for her wedding dance. Lunch was also a very tasty lettuce salad and chicken and apple and fruits. And after the gift opening, the guests left. The five of us cleaned up and everything was in order in a short time. She really put in a lot of time and effort for the planning and a lot of work getting everything decorated and food prepared. Wow, what a wonderful job.
I’ve got the dancing bug lately. Couple of times a week, I have the urge to go dancing. It would be nice if there is a group of us that can go dancing together. It would be fun to have some real dancing friends so you know you will have a good time when you go. Watched a lot of reality TV tonight. Senseless and a waste of time which makes me long to go dancing even more. Guess I’m restless today.