sunday afternoon and father's day dinner

 chanda and i got a ride to the east village with ellen, her modern dance teacher, who had been in our neighborhood in the early morning for a visit to the whitney museum (a special exhibit viewing time for members only). we were meeting our friends lucia, tsameret and moriah who were in town from pittsburgh and who were having a trampoline gym class with their friend and teacher, rudy. rudy has been teaching nyc homeschoolers for about . . . thirty years. i remember seeing a gym class when korrina was three or four years old as it was held in the same space as a nychea meeting (which a friend had invited me to). today the class was at the international school on second street, just east of second avenue, right next to an old graveyard that is kept up so beautifully.

 and i neglected to get a picture of chanda with our friends for which i had purposely brought my camera! instead, here are pics from one of our favorite yarn stores: downtown yarns on avenue A.

 we talked with lettie and kathy (rita, the owner wasn't there today) and picked out some cotton yarn to make a ballet t-shirt, one of teva durham's patterns which my friend janet gave me in a book called loop-d-loop knitting.

 galler yarns, inca-eco organic cotton, made in peru.

 shibui twig, made in japan from linen, recycled silk and wool.

 at home, greg went through boxes of family documents that he's had in the closet.

 pictures, birth and death certificates . . 

 my mother-in-law and sister-in-law in 1984. he was working on his genealogical charts.

chanda studied her lines today and went to a twelfth night rehearsal. she's working on the play with several friends (she's playing viola) and they'll perform it in a friend's courtyard monday night.

 father's day dinner: homemade pesto pasta with salad and fresh zucchini from the farmer's market.

 and sorbet and gelato . . 

it was a late meal as we were waiting for the young people to get back . . though greg would have eaten much sooner . . morgana had been babysitting in new jersey and chanda and deychen's rehearsal went late.