The Big Green House

Monday, May 05, 2003

 

I can explain

Here�s what happened. Thursday, I couldn�t log on to Blogger, for whatever reason. Friday, I was in absolutely no mood to write anything that anybody would ever want to read; even if all other written material mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth in some bizarre alien abduction and all that was left was my little blog and the starting roster for the 1982 Seattle Mariners, people world-wide would be fighting to read the line-up and ignoring what I would have written.

So that was Friday.

Saturday and Sunday were spent at Science Manor, relaxing, looking at birds (there is a Western Tanager nesting in our backyard), walking the dog, etc. Oh, and we went down to Pike Place Market & poked around. (Note well, those of you who may, at some time, visit Seattle: it�s not �Pike�s Place�. Calling it that will only mark you as a tourist and/or rube. The locals are too polite to laugh directly in your face, but believe me, they�ll certainly be doing it in their heads.) We stopped into DeLaurenti�s for the first time since they remodeled. I�d forgotten what a great deli they are. The case was full of prosciutto di parma, bresaola, soppresata, coppa� can you tell I like antipasti? And the cheeses! Science Girl is a real cheese lover; I thought she was going to climb over the counter and embrace the wall of cheese behind it. Plus all the lovely little tidbits you�d expect in a decent Italian deli � a bazillion different types of anchovies, olives galore, roasted red peppers, bags of arborio rice just waiting to be made into risotto con funghi (yes, they have the funghi, too), polenta, pastas, gnocchi� I tells ya, a wannabe Eye-talian like myself has to be very careful in such a place or they�ll go home with more food than they could ever hope to eat in one lifetime. I was a good boy, though I�m planning some future meals.

And that brings up to date, more or less.

bmarkey 5/05/2003 10:15:00 PM