voting day

we made plans to meet with korrina this afternoon for early voting and then had lunch together at home.

it was a typical lunch for us with italian bread, provolone and oil cured olives from faicco's pork store - and salami, avocado, kalamata and garlic stuffed olives from the coop. we also had some chicken liver pate from the butcher and an arugula salad . . 

with genmaicha tea and cookies for dessert. 

perusing cookbooks . . it was nice to relax together.

we spoke with morgan last night - harley has been on a business trip in prague and morgan has been at the nursery in stockwell. morgan is also running sound and lights for a friend's play that goes up in a few weeks. they had a rehearsal this evening. 

below is a cat who lives around the corner from them and who popped out to say hi one day as they were walking by . . so pretty!

also, morgan voted by mail a few weeks ago:

voting day and spring flower photos

pluto this morning . . 

and here are the three of them before chanda and i went out to vote.

it was a special election as our local council member was elected to the state assembly and we had to vote for his replacement.

look who we met up with . . it was a voting party.

the neighborhood is looking beautifully festive with all the spring blooms . .

and greg and i ate at tartine. we figured out that the last time we ate here together was when the restaurant had a different name, which neither of us could remember. we asked the current manager who also couldn't remember, though he knew that it was in 1991!! i have eaten here several times since then with janet and with morgan and chanda. one time we met a colleague of greg's from his work, which was interesting as i cannot remember how we figured out that she knew greg since he wasn't with us. maybe chanda remembers the story.

halloween day

morgan and i were out bright and early for a special halloween parade . . 

to see this special little firefighter . .

also, chanda, morgan and i met korrina at the local middle school for early voting . . 

it was nice having morgana here to vote with us (greg was at work and will vote on election day, tuesday, november 4th).

next up on the agenda was dressing up for janet's halloween party . . morgana and i were cats cricket and pluto and chanda was our vet . .

at the party we had a nice time talking with janet's friend about london, theatre and traveling.

korrina was at work where they all dressed up in different andy warhol wigs and korrina added her knitted gremlin hat . . 

and my sister and brother-in-law made a jack-o-lantern and handed out treats to the very many trick or treaters they had.

toby cat didn't quite understand what all the hubbub was about. 

meanwhile, greg was stuck in traffic after picking the car up from the shop and missed the party. he was very tired and simply made himself a sandwich and went to sleep.

good night! happy halloween!

morning shenanigans, baking and postcards

zuzu's morning routine . . 

making a plum cake with plums bought on monday (after korrina had texted me to let me know they were available at the green market) . .  

so i walked over and purchased eighteen of them . . and made a proper cake (i had tried it with round plums and it just wasn't as good.)

a favorite breakfast . . 

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i stopped at the rubin museum in the late afternoon as it's their last week. they're closing their nyc space and will now have specific exhibitions in different cities all over the world. i think their current exhibition will be moving to san francisco once it closes on sunday. i colored a flag for their sunday evening good-bye flag ceremony.

dinner was steamed sweet potatoes and bok choy with brown rice . . 

and thankfully i found the roll of postcard stamps that the cats had been playing with (it had rolled under my desk). i wrote out fifty postcards to georgia voters from the organization students for voting justice.

a zoom and voting day

family zoom today at 12:30 . .

chanda's photo of last week's strawberry moon . . 

photos from a hike she took . . 

(that's a deer in the top right corner . . )

protecting a piping plover nest . .

a newly published book she found at the library about tackling the problem of invasive flora and fauna around the world. 

voting with korrina today . . 

and pastry and a cold lemon yuzu soda afterwards . .

(at the sleeping cat cafe . . )

walking home i passed a city worker trying to fix a broken traffic light . . 

(car horns were honking . . people were not happy).

birthday dinner with kendall at balaboosta . . (they have such good food) . . 

(baklava with pistachio ice cream gone too soon.)