father's day

 it has been quite awhile since i've sat at my friend janet's table and helped her sew costumes.

 maybe it's been a year? she always has lovely things lying around . . homemade pottery, celery plants sprouting in bowls, avocados and apples waiting to be eaten, and an old bottle of wine waiting to be boiled down . . i never found out for what.

 she was desperate today for some sewing help, so when i called asking for advice in regard to my airbnb woes and she had to quickly hang up for a costume emergency, i decided to just go over and discuss my problems while i helped her with her's.

here she is madly searching for a missing dress . . happily, it was found!

 hot! it's been hot again after a respite of three days.

 beautiful flowers along the path home . . 

 since it was father's day, chanda and i made greg one of his favorite meals: sautéed broccoli rabe with faicco's chicken sausages. chanda went with me to faicco's and i guess it's been awhile since we went together. our faicco's worker looked at her and asked if she was my daughter. he was surprised by how much she had grown. he's been at the pork store since 2004, which is a year or two after we first began shopping there. we talked a bit about how the time goes and that all the children he knew when he first started working are all grown up now.

 since it was father's day, greg got to choose the game: dix-mille, from a box of die that he bought about a year ago (just to have extra die on hand).

 hermione melted while we played . . 

 the cats' fur floats around the apartment these days . . and when i pet them or pick them up, their hair sticks to my eyes and nose and mouth.

 you score with ones (worth 100 points) and fives (worth 50 points) and rolls of three: 2's being 200, 3's 300, etc. a roll of 4 of a kind equals 1000, a straight equals 1500.

 chanda rolled a straight!

 and i managed to get four of a kind . . 

 greg was happy because he pulled ahead of chanda's lead and won the game.

 pics of our hallway renovation which has been going on for three months now (too long!) and which i sent to morgana. 

 they've had trouble with the new stair treads that were ordered and had to try a new type. we have not heard when they will finally be installed.

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morgana is traveling once again . . back to munich to catch a plane to nice to see our neighbor victoria. she really enjoyed her audition in innsbruck. she worked privately in a workshop with a voice teacher and an acting teacher. the school had changed the audition date to a different weekend, but she already had her train ticket and insisted on going.  it was nice they still worked with her.

 on the train . . 

 she had a few hours in munich before meeting her austrian family for lunch. they were on their way home from greece where they had spent four days. the children were happy to return to papa (he had remained home to work). it had been their first time on a plane. the pic above is from a cafe she found in a technical school in munich. she had heard about this cafe, but didn't have any information on it except that in was in the school. she wandered around the building until finally running into several people with coffee cups in their hands. i think they directed her through the last few turns.

 she had heard about the beautiful view the cafe had overlooking münchen . . 

it did not disappoint . .