July 18: a quiet day in SF

Dear Friends and Relatives,

Healing from my gopher hole snafu and a resultant achy left rib cage and a right leg that is trying to mend, I distracted myself with Maureen yesterday evening by watching two episodes of "The Crown" last night.  We will continue our viewing by tackling episodes 3 and 4 this evening.  

I was almost catatonic by the time 11:00 p.m. rolled around, and quickly called it a night and went to bed.  I slept an uninterrupted, much-needed sleep until almost 8:00 a.m. this morning, and then joined Maureen for coffee, English muffins and the whole milk, Jersey cow yogurt which we had bought yesterday at Marin French Cheese.  Then we departed for Maureen's St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Foster City, for the 10:00 a.m. service.  The congregation is filled with a very diverse group of  individuals of Indian, Japanese, and  Filipino origin, to name but a few of the nationalities represented.  A lovely service, with a coffee hour afterwards, and Lizz and Brian Klammer were there as well (she had  taught science at St. John's for many a year).  As she and Brian had much catching up to do with us, we went to a Burger restaurant named Counter, where we learned that they will be on their way to Greensboro, North Carolina, where Lizz will be teaching science at the Canterbury School, a private school in the city.  Before they left, Maureen and I invited them for dinner on Monday night.  

After we left them, Maureen and I went to three different stores to put together the ingredients for dinner tomorrow.  More about that dinner when we actually prepare it tomorrow.  

Where Maureen lives, the breezes were light and the temperatures hovered around 84 degrees--a very tolerable climate.  However, all the suburbs around us which are any distance from the ocean or SF Bay were as hot as 98 and 100 degrees.  We were totally exhausted from our grocery trek, and were grateful to get home to Maureen's cool aerie, where we took a nap and then had a wonderful "summer supper," which Maureen created in remembrance of the summer suppers they had when she was a little girl in upstate NY.  Her dad had planted many and varied vegetables in his copious garden, and we had three of them in tonight's menu--fresh corn on the cob; zucchini dredged in flour, salt and pepper, then fried; and fresh tomatoes.  After watching more of "The Crown" tonight, we will have some fresh pineapple for dessert.  A quiet day, but I can surely use it for my rib cage/leg recovery.  A good evening to all!  As ever, SV