Jville Wears Green

We drove up to the country Friday and only had a little traffic on the FDR to the GWB. This was our first trip in our new car, a graphite gray Subaru outback with black leather interior and every bell and whistle you can imagine. It was getting dark as we arrived, so we couldn't see the yard. We unloaded and started on dinner, spaghetti and white clam sauce. I fell asleep at the table, while Marty went into the living room and crashed on the couch. I put the perishables away and went to bed.

What a surprise in the morning to look outside and see how lush and beautiful everything was, just spring in neon green with touches of color from the blooming trees and small flowers carpeting the edges. It was raining, but that only made the brook more vociferous.

I went to yoga and picked up a book at the library, the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Marty installed pantry shelves, and we geared up for guests. Doug came with his crew and plenty of ice, limes and tonic. We had ensalada caprese and spanikopita to start. Well, there wasn't any spinach in the spanikopita because they were really knishes. It became the running joke of the evening, harking back to an earlier mix-up where Doug was going to make ice cream in his ice cream maker and there was a bug zapper in the box instead. Dinner was great, grilled veal chops with spice rub, shrimp on the barbie and asparagus risotto. We took a walk to town after dinner and had ice cream, then returned to the house for coffee and German butter cake. A new German bakery opened in town and they bake whole grain rye bread and yummy pastries.

I called Mark to see how he did at his track meet. He'd run a PB, 3:43 in the 1500. He's ranked 9th in the Eastern region and 30th in the country. He also proudly reported his grades: 2 B's, 2 B+'s and an A in Spanish. He's one happy boy and I'm a very proud mom.

Sunday was more of the same weatherwise. I painted a curio cabinet we'd found on the street near our old apartment, we put a deposit on a "harvest table" for the apartment and picked up some things for lunch.

We went to the gym when we got back to NYC. Marty did a spinning class and I biked for an hour. We ordered in pizza and watched part of the Yankee game. I went to bed when they were losing 5-4