korrina came by this afternoon after her japanese class to pick up her gifts that chanda brought back from prague.
actually, one of the gifts was from london: a hat from the globe theatre.
the other gift was lemon curd from fortnum and mason. our jar has already disappeared. sadly.
even though it was really hot today, i made an eggplant parmagiana, as i didn't want my eggplant to go bad. yes, we're in another heat wave and i finally turned on the air conditioner since it's been 82 degrees these past two nights. my excuse is that hermione is doing very poorly and looks so hot lying on the rug in chanda's room. i was so busy cooking and talking that i didn't take a photo of her with korrina. when we first adopted hermione and madeline, hermione was korrina's kitten, and madeline was morgana's. as chanda grew older, she claimed xena as her own (we had adopted xena a year or two before getting the kittens). xena was my warrior cat and kept away all the mice.
greg was home by 5:30, enabling us to have dinner together before korrina had to leave.
isn't this picture amazing? my friend janet sent it from her travels in british columbia, where she grew up. this was taken near the athabasca glacier, where she and her family walked 17 kilometers one day and 15 the next!
chanda asked me if the grey was mist or smoke . . and i'm actually not sure. they've had very bad fires, but it must be mist because i don't think they could do all that hiking in such smokey air.
the athabasca glacier which looks like it's melted quite a bit.
on tuesday evening greg and i walked to chelsea market and ate at mokbar which korrina had recommended to me last time we had browsed through. she has never eaten here, but brian has and we were impressed. we had a cold noodle dish and a vegan miso ramen. both were incredibly delicious.
it was nice that there was a place to sit (chelsea market can get very crowded) and the server we had was friendly and adept.
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korrina's selfie that she took with hermione monday afternoon . .
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I have been at that glacier with my father in 1987! Has not changed much, but we did not have those horrible wild fires. We read about them in Kingston, ON, and saw it on TV there. I think they had a state of emergency for B.C.
ReplyDeleteMy friend said it was the worst she's ever lived through, and for the first time was apprehensive.
DeleteNice that you've been to the glacier! I haven't been that far north, though I did visit Banff with my parents in 1980.
DeleteI saw a moose standing under a sprinkler in downtown Banff on my way to church!
DeleteOh, that's a wonderful and funny memory!
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