Sunday I was going to host a dinner for an old friend<\/a> who was in town for a few days …. her husband died last summer, and, even though they’d been living in Europe, Paris and Amsterdam, for almost 10 years, his parents are in Milwaukee, and they still had boxes in storage at another friend’s house.<\/p>\n Anyways, she’s allergic to cats, so I was going to vacuum thoroughly, then stash the cats in the back bedroom, but she’s too allergic for that. So we moved the dinner out to Waunakee to the home of the other friends with the boxes. Schlepping food – it was like School Woods<\/a> again. I made roasted chicken with garlic and rosemary from the back deck, and a vegetable ragout with corn and potatoes and tomatoes and romano beans, and ice cream sandwiches from a recipe that I made a few years ago, for a dinner when the neighbors with the three little kids came over. I remember doing something that made it work better back then, but dammed if I can remember what that was now. Might’ve been using parchment instead of the foil the recipe says to use.<\/p>\n Rach got here while I was out in Waunakee, and we had a good week. Several walks, and we went over to Al & Emma’s on Thursday, and toured the new house, and ate salad: chicken salad made with the leftovers from Sunday, black rice salad, and some of the ragout, on greens. Both Al & Emma picked out the romano beans.<\/p>\n It was a long week, though – Monday was the iSchool faculty & staff retreat, Thursday was new student orientation – and I was cranking on courses, lots of days working till 5:30 or 6:00. Today I worked until almost 6:30, in fact.<\/p>\n And, oh yeah, John was here for work and he and I and Al and one John’s co-workers had a nice pizza and salad dinner at Lombardinos, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Then it was the long weekend. We went to see Garrison Keillor at Breeze Stevens Field. It was a little sad – Prairie Home Companion refuges – even Garrison said so – and kind of a small crowd. Nice moon though. I smashed my finger in the stall door of the women’s bathroom, and then talked my way into the cocktail tent for some ice. It was a wristband only area, and the wristbands cost $7 which also included your first drink, but the security cop let me in when I said I just wanted ice, and the bar tender asked if I needed an EMT. No thank you, just ice.<\/p>\n It doesn’t hurt too much now, but it feels like the nail might fall off eventually.<\/p><\/div>\n Moon over Breeze Stevens – soft focus, because I had my phone in a plastic bag because it was kind of rainy<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/smashed.jpg\")
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