All winter, my mother has been giving everyone she knows a huge bucket of persimmons. I happily eat them, they are really good. My mom packaged a bunch of them and shipped them here and there – all the way to California. The tree is so large now that she can’t pick the ones from the top, but a bunch of tree contractors spied them and asked to pick the ones from the top and look how laden the tree is with fruit. There must have been over 1,000 persimmons! I have at least 20 of them in my tummy. I’m glad those got picked. My mother hosted a delicious dinner for us on Friday night and we had a good time and yummy food, but Jeremy said…I feel slightly not well which was a bellwether for things to come.
Jeremy spent a lot of the past week outfitting Elka. It has dropped below freezing for a few days and Jeremy bought Elka a jacket.
Then Elka got salt in her paws and it hurt her, so Jeremy got her shoes which she didn’t like very much but mostly tolerated.
Sunday night, we celebrated Katherine’s birthday Sunday night by hosting a party at the house. Jeremy made a delicious chicken dinner from all the recipes from a book that Katherine had made notes in. It was delicious and the party was generally a success – but Jeremy was feeling under the weather and, therefore, the mask. He asked his parents if we should reschedule, but they demurred – so we went ahead. He’s still not feeling well today, fingers crossed no one else got sick. Maybe I should get a quieter tablecloth? This is our regular tablecloth because it’s easy to wipe down and you can spill and entire spaghetti dinner on it and not really see it.
