Dinner at home
On the menu tonight:
fresh trout from the river;
potatoes from our friend's garden with chives and parsley from our porch;
yellow tomatoes from the farm stand, grown just over the mountain;
cole slaw made with cabbage from our friend's garden;
squash fritters from our own garden;
a glass of wine;
table set with our wedding china;
my favorite daisy napkin rings and cloth napkins;
new pottery bowl in the middle of the table (gift from Paul to me);
a birthday song led by my girl;
family around the table, happy company.
Lovely lovely dinner.
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- " You could build your own life on the observation of it." Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
- "...the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the final ranks were indistinguishable from sky. It was as if all the world might be composed of nothing but valley and ridge." Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
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