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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

BlackSalt

It's a fish market and restaurant in DC where my daughter and I had our last dinner of this visit. http://www.blacksaltrestaurant.com/dinner-menu/starters/ Check out the loveliness of this menu! I had soft-shelled crab over a bed of some sort of vegie and ham stew(not on this menu), after an appetizer of a very good crab cake. For dessert, we shared key lime pie. She had a snifter of Grand Marnier, too. Up front, there are cases full of wonderful fishes of many kinds resting on crushed ice: you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Stories of England

My daughter enjoyed her trip, came home full of stories of adventures in Amsterdam and London. There was a restaurant that served them 16 course of terribly haute cuisine, each plate a fancy bite of beautiful edibility. There was a ride through Hyde Park and a very large-footed horse. They saw Shakespeare's RICHARD III starring Martin Freeman (aka Bilbo Baggins, aka Dr John Watson). Finally, they went to see Monty Python's Live Reunion (Mostly). The "mostly" refers to Graham Chapman who died... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Up and running... here's Cooper!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ I have been told that Cooper is not allowed to chew tennis balls any more, as it damages his teeth. So... the one he had half-stripped of its fur has now mysteriously vanished. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Cooper

It's a beautiful day! Here it is, afternoon, and the temperature is cool, the humidity is moderate, and the sun is shining. Cooper and I were out in the yard for a while, playing with a ball he found on one of our walks. He loves to play ball! He noses the tennis ball here and there, pushing it between my feet so I will take the hint and throw the ball. He catches it at a dead run, brings it back and flings it 3 feet at me: "Again!" He is so fast on his feet, so quick with his mouth, it's just... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Keeping up with Charlie

He's got himself a blog at blogspot. It promises to be quite entertaining. http://projectprospero.blogspot.com/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Dancing feet!

At the Irish fest, I caught a few moments of Granddaughter Zoe's flying feet... and the next day, her mom, my elder daughter Anne participated in some middle-eastern dancing in Baltimore. Find them here, among the flowers... and the rising moon, over a couple of Irish bands. https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Annapolis Irish Festival

Life seems to be one festival after another this summer. Daughter Anne and Granddaughter Zoe are both into folk dance, Irish and Middle-eastern particularly. Today's festival was more of bands and vendors, and some of the more obvious merchandise I was looking for was not there. I want to find McGrath's Irish Breakfast Tea... but there was nothing of the sort on offer. And I want to find a Clarke's tin whistle, the original penny whistle. Again... no one had such a thing. Well, the tin whistle... Sign in to see full entry.

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PRIVATE LIVES

is a play by Noel Coward: very witty and funny with rather obnoxious characters you can actually like! Annie and Zoe and I went to see it on stage last night. Zoe, 11, laughed and enjoyed it--I asked if she was laughing because the jokes were funny to her, or because we were laughing. She said, A little of both. Dinner last night was at a place called Pho DC. and it also was very good. Some flavors, though, it is hard for the mouth to get enough of them: the bowl is empty long before the mouth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 11, 2014

poor puppy!

Ripley is not a small dog: he is some sort of mastiff-cross with a big head and a lanky body. German shepherd is likely another large part of Ripley. Ripley suddenly was walking three-legged night before last, not whimpering--just not walking on his back right leg. His brother dog, Cooper, has had torn cruciate tendons of both his hind legs, repair of which cost thousands of dollars in surgeries. Well, an x-ray yesterday determined that it is indeed now Ripley's turn. We drive him out to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Like random imaginings...

As we came home last night, in the yard, suddenly were little drifting sparks... Fireflies! And that reminded me of this poem I wrote a few summers ago. LONG ISLAND SUMMERS I’d go back for just a moment, perhaps as long as one day and a night, enough, I think, to relish what I loved about Long Island summers: Scents of ragweed, seared grasses, almost-too-sweet roses in the heavy summer air… Glittering waters, hot, hot sand and tiny shells hiding in the drying seaweed margin of the tide… Early... Sign in to see full entry.

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