it was that time of the summer when we meet ellen for ice cream. this year we met at morgenstern's, which isn't far from where ellen lives. i had raspberry lychee sorbet and vietnamese coffee, chanda had strawberry guava sorbet, and ellen had mint chip and burnt honey vanilla ice cream (which is one of my favorites and which i had with espresso in march before lockdown - actually, it was in february! the post is here).
it was very hot day, but, fortunately, not too humid.
as you can see . . it was a quiet afternoon at the ice cream parlor . .
it was nice to catch up on each other's news. ellen has been trying to figure out how to have her dance classes. she has a few students sending her videos which she critiques with them, and she's trying to decide if she can have one on one sessions in a studio.
chanda ran off to meet emily and ellen and i visited the new bread shop on prince street. vesuvio bakery reopened with a new owner and i bought an olive rosemary bread.
we also tried the soft serve vanilla gelato with olive oil and sea salt sprinkled over it. chanda had raved about it, and we both loved it.
i said good-bye to ellen in washington square and passed this cute kitty at bigelow pharmacy on my way home.
dinner this evening was chicken drumsticks with a beet salad i've been making for many years . . from cynthia lair's feeding the whole family cookbook. it uses the beet tops and i mixed in some onion, sunflower seeds, walnuts and feta cheese.
mah ze dahr bakery is open again, and i stopped on the way home for carrot cake . . which they didn't have. i settled for cream cheese cake . . but it wasn't as good as their carrot cake. supposedly, they won't have carrot cake again until the fall . . ah well, i need something to look forward to in the fall! (wow, i had a lot of desserts today.)
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here are a few pics from korrina's ferry ride to the beach today:
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here are a few pics from korrina's ferry ride to the beach today:
Maybe there is a shortage of carrots?
ReplyDeleteSo many desserts and they all look good. I have been making popsicles every day for several months now. They are gone each day.
I think our studio is doing private lessons in person again. Charlotte's maks requirements for the fall are really complicated. She needs masks with filters and has to change them nine times, so she will need nine masks each day! I know I could not dance one minute in one. I think I would just quite dance.
That sounds horrendous, I think I too would quit dancing! Wearing a mask round the supermarket or dropping stuff off at the hospital is enough for me. Looks like we also have a second wave on the horizon, really hope Dave is out of hospital before it hits 😞. All the desserts sound great apart from the gelato with olive oil and sea salt! The weather here has been terrible I think we are going to get a 10c temperature swing by the weekend. I love warm weather but struggle to adjust to such rapid heat changes 🙂
DeleteYes, I don't know how she will deal with that! Peter just ordered a lot of masks for Jonathan and Charlotte. All the restrictions for the coming semester are unbelievable! I am glad that I won't be teaching. The only place on campus where you can take off your mask is in your own office when nobody else is present. That's it!
DeleteI do hope you will get a bit more sunshine and I do hope Dave will improve.
Nine masks . . all I can think of is: how wasteful! Unless they can re-use these masks? It sounds difficult . . very difficult to dance in a mask like that. I'm glad you're not teaching, Eva. Is that a recent decision? I don't remember you mentioning it. I have forgotten. And you won't teach online either? Will Peter have to lecture with a mask on? That's not easy as the masks muffle one's voice. (sigh). This virus is very strange.
DeleteThe college is alternating German and French because that way they only have to pay one faculty member and not two at the same time. Next fall is my turn again. No teaching for me this semester and next semester. Peter is teaching with a face shield.
DeleteP.S. Yes, they can wash them and reuse them.
DeleteIt's good to reuse . . that's interesting about the teaching. I know the pay is important for you, but at the same time it's probably a nice break in regard to time and effort.
DeleteIt was a good break. I will be teaching again in the fall. The college is thinking about reintroducing languages again.
DeleteThank goodness! Right? Studying another language seems so important . .
DeleteI think so too, especially when a college stresses global engagement.
DeleteEspecially when a college stresses global engagement.
DeleteI might have written a comment here before. Something along the lines of having a global perspective as a college should mean that you teach foreign languages.
DeleteDefinitely . . I have to laugh because . . of course!
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