walking milly and a slice of cheesecake

 

milly's ear blowing in the wind . . 

before i walked milly today i rode a citibike downtown to visit the mah ze dahr cafe at brookfield place. i had seen on their instagram story that they were closing their counter at the food court and today was their last day. they used to have a storefront on greenwich avenue but they left that space a few years ago. (i had visited there many times with marisa, and also with korrina, morgana and chanda.) so today i thought i would go and have one last treat and cup of tea. a worker behind the counter mentioned that they might open a new space near hudson yards in september.

tea with janet

i had tea with janet today at mah ze dahr (one of their raspberry rose spritzers, actually, and ginger passionfruit). she had been away for two months in paris. she's slowly fixing up the small studio she purchased.

this is the second child i saw today walking along with a parent and wearing pajamas. maybe there was a sleepover somewhere?!

rose honey and saffron . . (with zuzu in the background) . . 

my delicious gifts janet brought back for me from paris.

at the vet

chanda and i took pluto to our vet today for an ultrasound.

he's been having blood in his stool off and on for awhile now and we're hoping to get more information.

i walked chanda to school . . 

and then visited mah ze dahr cafe for carrot cake and a latte (and to wait for pluto to be finished with the procedure). the book is days at the morisaki bookshop, by satoshi yagisawa, translated by eric ozawa. of course it was the cat on the cover that piqued my interest, however, there was never a mention of a cat. i still liked it very much. it's about a young woman's relationship with her uncle and how they help each other in a way they couldn't anticipate. the setting is  the uncle's bookshop and the author uses specific books and how the characters relate to the stories in an insightful manner. i highly recommend it.

i also found out that noon is a good time to visit this particular cafe with lots of available seating.

i took this photo because zuzu was perched on the other side of the armchair, but i wasn't quick enough and she jumped off right before i pressed the shutter.

anyway, the ultrasound showed a thickening in the ileum (the final section of the small intestine) which is indicative of the acute gastrointestinal problem, and it also showed enlarged abdominal lymph nodes, which (unfortunately) could point to cancer. so now they suggest an upper and lower gi endoscopy. we don't know yet what we're going to do next. (he's already on a special diet and has been for a year.)

coffee, tea and the weather

i miss having a morning cappuccino with morgan.
 

 

thankfully, the wind was quieter today so milly and i could walk by the river. we also went by the dog run (no french bulldogs today, but there was a rather beautiful and very tall great dane) and then walked cross town to meet chanda by mah ze dahr where she went in and bought some treats for us.

 

taking a photo with milly . .

 

(photo by chanda)

back at home . . 

time for my cheesecake and earl grey tea (chanda had a savory treat from the bakery with a sandwich she made here).

cricket on my novice sweater . . 

i'm sure he thinks it's for him.

later on he ate the icing off the cupcake i had brought back for greg and i to share from the knitting get together at the yarn store (kiana always offers some treats). greg and i had been talking in the living room and when greg walked back into the kitchen he couldn't get cricket off the counter and he said the sprinkles had gone everywhere and zuzu was happily snapping them up. the icing is my favorite part so i was a bit disappointed, but i painstakingly scraped a little off and ate what was left.

i'll end with korrina's thoughts about the latest weather conditions.

at the vet

i met chanda at the vet today as pluto wasn't feeling well. we discovered that he had some kind of lesion on his tongue. he had been drooling and wasn't eating and we think he may have chewed on a wire and possibly electrocuted himself . . it sounds dreadful, doesn't it? dr. park gave him pain medication through an injection and also sent some home with chanda for her to give orally every eight hours. 

we went to mah ze dahr cafe afterwards for coffee and to discuss the situation!

it was an incredibly warm day . . 60 degrees . . and it felt like spring.

photos from the expedition for carrot cake

the cherry tree on the corner is in bloom . . 

yum. (they also had rhubarb pie which i included for chanda.)