LRRH con't'd

Readers: What kind of date do you think Big Bad Wolf has in mind?

(Spots by Pascal Lemaitre in Sept. 27, 2010, The New Yorker)

Wouldn't Mag have loved this? (See this post) as do I!

Fungi

T and I took a fall hike into the hills in Montville, the Frye-Hogback Section of the George's Highland Path. Fungi was abundant. It was a lovely day for a seven mile hike. As T said, "Delightful lunch (he packed it), delightful woods, delightful weather and delightful company." Because we need a new roof, we are unable to take the Spanish/Portugese hike we had planned so instead we're capitalizing on what's close by. Besides, we got away from the pound-pound-pound on the rooftop at home.

Passé

HEY TAVI!!!


Having another sleepless night, I turned to a newly discovered blog . It thoroughly depressed me. It is hip and funny, clever, smart, compelling, savvy and stylish. It is driven by the same blogging unit I use- blogger- and yet it is in a whole different league. It doesn't appear that any money has gone into design, just creativity and knowledge. Here's the killer: The blogger is FOURTEEN years old, the magnificent Tavi. She's au courant at 14 and I'm passé at 65. Check her out.

Two Big Handfuls

Syl and family moved from their 3,200 sq ft house with 5 br/4.5 ba to a modest 2 br/1 ba house this weekend. I helped for the payment of photo of me with the boys. I'm not sure which was harder; rustling the boys to stillness or packing up and moving. Any activity involving these rascals is fraught with constant motion. This was the best we could do.

T's FIFTY-NINTH!

We did a ton of grocery shopping in Freeport and Portland, ran into an old friend I hadn't seen since the eighties, picked up Pete at the airport, met Steve and Patti at Street + Co. for a birthday bash for dear T. Pete, T and I shared the lobster diavlo and still had leftovers for lunch today. Now T is in the same decade I am, at least for a few years.

Queen Bees Take Third Place!

Our spelling bee team, Queen Bees, went down on "sacrilegious." Don't you love a guy who will go in drag for the sake of the team?? That's our TOMasina!

Newly Installed Clothesline

I did it myself (well, almost)! Following Martha Stewart's step-by-step instructions, I bought the hardware and installed this clothesline with pulleys and line separator and line tightener. My motivation was to launder and air out four European damask duvet covers and pillow shams that had been sitting in an old building for at least a decade and smelled rather moldy, actually VERY moldy and mildewy. Dryers work no miracles on these babies.

The part I did not do myself was the biggest of all, sawing down the obstructing, no-account tree between the two chosen ones. T obligingly did that this morning at 7 a.m. I hope the neighbors didn't mind.