Saturday, June 07, 2008
Posted at 9:12:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Wow!!! It's raining really hard and it's SUPER LOUD in the hangar! I wish I was in the tower, though... I bet it's even better there, especially if there's lightning to watch. Lots of thunder rumbling and rolling.
We flew to Block Island with our hounds today to escape the heat, but when we got there it turned out that Dean's hound had a flat tire (thorn in his paw??) and we didn't have the proper tools to fix it (no wrench). So we made lemons into lemonade and walked to town instead. It was very fun! Froozie's was open (even though they were supposed to close at 3:00, and it was about 3:30) and we got drinks and shared a non-grilled pondsider, then checked out the new cheesecake place across the street (didn't eat any; it was just for future ref.) and walked around checking out potential dinner spots and the great bookstore next to Harry's, then walked all the way to the end of the big rock breakwater thing near the harbor where the ferrys come in.
Dean found the perfect spot down in the rocks that was sheltered from the wind, and we lounged and read stuff. I noted about ten thousand lobster roll joints in the BI dining guide (I should circle them all with red pen for Future Self), but a lot of them don't have anything Dean can eat. I took photos of the beautiful flowy seaweed down below and the minerals in the rocks. Some of the rocks had really cool black quartz (or something). We ate dinner at Eli's because Harry's has a lobster sandwich on the menu but only at lunchtime, so I wanted to save Harry's for that. Eli's had a rhubarb dessert! It was good although not that rhubarby.
Friday, June 06, 2008
It's supposed to be 95° tomorrow... the poor Essex Shad Bake! All those people! All those huge zillion-degree shad bonfires! Yuck!
Posted at 11:21:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
It was 60° today. 60 to 95 overnight? Yikes.
Along with the cool it was very gray and overcast and dark, and the acoustics in my Beag were so so good. Ordinary songs sounded incredible. I kept thinking of Hawaii.
I had to hang around this morning waiting to sign for Dean's replacement Palma, and couldn't do anything noisy because I didn't want to miss the doorbell. I was very very sleepy since it was so dark and since I had to wake up early to wait for Palma, and since I had to wake up early yesterday for Dr. Neck, after no sleep the night before. I was afraid I'd doze off, so I lay in a daze on the couch right near the front door so I could leap up when the doorbell rang. It was actually quite nice, especially since I am normally completely incapable of taking a nap.
Palma was finally delivered around 2 PM-ish, and I went to Klekolo and had an absolutely sublime single bohemian, light on the syrup, heavy on the thick, smooth foam. There were pink and caramel-colored streaks mixed in with the foam at the bottom of the glass. Beautiful.
My locker sign arrived, at NECA! Orlena gave it to me, and I installed it myself. I will have to take a photo when I get my Palma back. It says "PETIX." Ha.
We had dinner at Forbidden City Bistro in Middletown, and it was really good. I was hungry. Everything was good: the weird twisted Asian sweet rolls (I liked them so much, Dean let me have one of his), the edamame dumplings, my duck-and-mushroom scraps on a huge lettuce leaf, my melon-and-shrimp, and icy pomegranate sorbet (it was actually granita, but they called it sorbet) for dessert. They should have rhubarb granita. Rhubarb granita would be amazing.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
I am so hungry today. Does not being able to sleep make one hungry?
Posted at 7:51:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Orthopedic Surgeon: Do you have this book?
Me: No.
O.S.: It has all kinds of good advice, like... (flips though booklet to photo of woman with her head craned back on salon shampoo sink) don't get your hair done... (flips more, to photo of goofy-looking guy reaching overhead with roller brush) don't paint ceilings... (same guy cradling phone with shoulder) don't talk on the phone...
I couldn't tell if he was serious or being funny. I liked how he kept using the word "spells," though. My neck has spells.
I miss Palma!! It's so weird without Palma.
Even though I was super-exhausted from not sleeping, I still went to NECA, so now I'm even more super-exhausted. (And hungry.) I really really like my locker.
Maybe I'll be able to fall asleep early tonight!
I feel like eating pudding.
I kept dreaming/half-awake-hallucinating that my neck was all better, but it's not.
Posted at 9:41:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Last night for dinner we had the most perfect artichokes of all time. I bought them for their beauty (so huge and round, with thick long stems; it would've been a crime to pass them by) and they were as good as they looked. I could barely cram the two of them into my largest pot, the one I'd use if I ever made lobster. Steamed them for three hours. I don't even remember where I got them (just a normal grocery store; noplace special), but they were magnificent. I should've taken a photo, but I didn't think of it until after we'd pulled them apart leaf by leaf and scraped every last bit of flesh until nothing was left but an enormous pile of scraps. Artichokes are definitely the lobster of vegetables.
Dean's Treo is messed up, so he's borrowing mine. I miss Palma so much, already!
I like construction paper a lot, especially the marbeled kind.
Artichokes are a really strange color green.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Wow, drawing giant squid is super fun. (I wonder if colossal squid are as diverting?) Jellyfish and brittle stars are nothing to sneeze at either.
Posted at 12:23:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
I decided to use June's birthday card on Hunter and Hunter's on June. Seemed reasonable.
My New Testament "A Child's Bible" with the cool Charles Front illustrations finally arrived. I didn't finish the weird Old Testament yet, though, so I can't start it. It's highly colorful, although not as phantasmagoric as the Old. (Not surprisingly.)
Ella is getting leaves! (!!!) Now! I was about 90% convinced she was dead. I sure hope Gifford follows suit.
I have a giant crick in my neck that just appeared. Or maybe it's a colossal crick. Pretty much I can't tilt my head to the left.
Sunday is World Ocean Day! I didn't know it's June 8th every year, but it is.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Wow, that is bad news. Damn. Jan Høiberg's The Band website is shutting down! :-(
Posted at 10:53:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I didn't post about this at the time, because there was too much going on and I didn't have a chance, but I got the coolest piece of mail on Thursday.
Posted at 12:06:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I'd grabbed the stack out of the mailbox on my way to meet Dean at MMK, then shuffled through it as we were driving together to the bike trail, and was bewildered to find an envelope from Cafe Routier addressed to me. We didn't fill out anything when we were there, and we'd paid with cash, so what was it?? I opened it, and inside was a handwritten note, on Cafe Routier stationery, from the owner of Routier, saying that he came across my blog when doing a search online and really enjoyed it! It's the nicest note, thanking me for what I wrote about Routier and complimenting my writing. (!) It even includes a Roast Meat Hill Road in-reference. :-) How often do you get a handwritten piece of real mail from someone regarding something you wrote on the web? That's just plain classy. Anyway, it's still sitting next to my keyboard, so I keep thinking about it and smiling. If you are reading this, thank you very much Mr. Parri!
Sunday, June 01, 2008
This morning I had a long dream about a miracle fruit taste trip! I can't remember it very well, but it was detailed and great. I was trying the effects on all sorts of stuff... I remember grapefruit and rhubarb, both of which were amazing. Near the end I was chomping enthusiastically on a whole raw onion and said it tasted delicious like an apple. (I have no idea if miracle fruit actually effects the taste of onion, but in my dream it sure did!) My subconscious mind just made up the idea of miracle fruit + rhubarb, but then today I read that that is an incredible combo! Dean thinks we should find miracle fruit for real and get some.
Posted at 9:22:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I like the Jeep guy Tower. He's nice and has a nice voice. We went to Rick's in Orange County today and had pie. There was only one piece left, and it was ours. Rick's pie is the best. I don't even like pie, but I like Rick's.
