At another little shop beside the barn they had a mix of old and new. I bought this new necklace and these pearl vintage earrings both at ridiculously low prices so I didn't feel so bad about indulging myself.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
the gift shop
At another little shop beside the barn they had a mix of old and new. I bought this new necklace and these pearl vintage earrings both at ridiculously low prices so I didn't feel so bad about indulging myself.
tea time
On my birthday I had to go to Lockport (named for the locks on the Erie Canal) to visit a client for an hour. They knew it was my birthday and they had these pretty flowers waiting for me along with a couple cakes. I too brought cupcakes and cookies so we all sat down at nine o'clock in the morning and indulged in sweets. The rooster vase I bought later in the day at an antique barn.
This is Alex, the bookkeeper's son. He woke up with pink eye that morning so came to work with his mother. He kept me very entertained. He is a third grader.
At ten I met my best friend, Barb, at the Kenan Center. It is a mansion in Lockport that has been restored and used for community functions. We toured the house and appreciated the watercolor art displays throughout. I thought that I had left my camera at the restaurant on Saturday evening so I fretted about that for awhile and didn't take any photos.
Barb and I went to The White Linen Tearoom for lunch. There I fished around in the bottom of my purse and found my camera. Yay!!
timing our tea....I had monkey-picked. I was going to buy some afterwards until I found out it was $11 for enough to make about two cups.
This is our tea tray minus the scones that were on top because they were already on our plates when I took the pic.
Warm scones....sugar and cinnamon plum
We didn't touch our desserts....too full. So we took them home along with a little gift of three tea bags.
The tearoom was located beside an antique barn where we spent a couple hours happily browsing. This was the prettiest thing I saw. Pink and green depression glass.
This reminded me of my little blue "Burble" I had when I was a child.
one of the booths
unusual pale orange Depression glass
That's the tearoom you can see out the window
and unusual dark orange Depression glass with green stems
I bought the rooster vase and the urn shaped lusterware vase. I had been using the other lusterware piece as a toothbrush holder for years but it doesn't hold the new fat handled brushes so I thought this piece would work and compliment the other.
And I found this lovely brand new vintage long Formfit Rogers nightgown that fits me perfectly. It's so well constructed.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
dinner at moda
Our annual firm dinner is tonight at the Mansion on Delaware Ave. I have a number of dresses I could have worn but I ran into Macy's yesterday and quickly found this dress on sale. The rosy color of the fabric under the lace top goes perfectly with the pink ruffly shawl that my sister, Debbie, gave me for my birthday. Birthday earrings from B, black satin flats, a rhinestone bracelet and a cute beaded purse that was a gift from my mom complete the outfit.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
busy busy november
From the looks of my calendar November may be my busiest month this year. I don't even want to think about December and the C word. There are four family birthdays in November including mine and Bs. Our birthdays are two weeks apart exactly and I'm the one who robbed the cradle. This past Friday instead of our usual burgers(fake for me) and fries and a movie, we went to the ballet. All the dances were pau de deux. There were trois of these each about cinq minutes long and then a twenty minute intermission and then trois more and then another twenty minutes of intermission and then again trois short dances. I liked the dances but the evening was two thirds intermission.
Saturday we left at 10:30 for Rochester for the St John Fisher football game at noon. Because we had to leave so early I skipped my normal Saturday morning exercise class and run. (There is another reason I skipped class. I had to shampoo the carpet in my car because a few days earlier a gallon jug of milk had tipped over and leaked in the back of my car. I thought I had taken care of the spill but way more had spilled than I thought and I had been driving to work gagging over sour milk smell for a couple days. It ended disastrously with the purchase of new carpeting. What can I say.) I always enjoyed watching Fisher play football but my focus had always been on Jay and nerves had always been involved. Now that he is just helping to coach and I don't know these boys out on the field, I can focus more on paying attention to the game. This was an exciting high scoring game 49 to 55 with Fisher losing. :( Fisher kept us on the edge of our seats up to the very last second of the game when they threw a Hail Mary Surprise with the ball exchanging hands about six times.
After the game we went back to Jay's house to see the new patio we gave him for his birthday. He plans to landscape and build a shed come spring. We said hello to the kitties Tess and Brody and then drove downtown to a French restaurant called 2Vine. We had eaten here three years ago while attending the Rochester International Jazz Festival and I had been very impressed with the food and the ambiance.
We were having an early dinner so it's not very crowded in the pic but by the time we left the place was packed. We sat at the bar for a few minutes and ordered drinks and snacked on yummy dry roasted garbanzo beans and fava beans while our table was being prepared. Gazing at the drink menu I noticed that three or four of the drinks featured the Green Fairy - absinthe. I had actually thought this was a banned substance. The bartender showed me the eerie green liquor in a bottle that looked like it could have been purchased from Anthropolgie.
We placed our order. I was interested in the eggs du jour. A thin omelet with tomato concasse and parm. B said he would get up and walk out if I ordered eggs so I ordered the same thing I had ordered three years ago. Then I watched the sun set and dozens of crows swoop back and forth the across the skyline.
B and I both ordered the soup du jour. A creamy pumpkin soup with sage and bits of toasted walnut with sage creme fraiche. Yummy yummy but I burnt my esophagus it was so hot.
B and I both ordered the same roasted beet salad. Greens with a couple roasted beets, grapes, mango, and Maytag blue.
I had the mussels in a light fennel broth
served with pomme frites
Jay had the burger with pomme frites and would not allow me to photograph it. B had a duck dish.
Then I opened these beautiful green amethyst and diamond earrings and pretended that I had no idea what was in the package. We had bid on them and won them last month at the NCCC Scholarship Gala Fundraiser.
And a hoodie and Nike Vapor headphones from Jay. Finally a pair of headphones that don't fall out of your ears....secure, weightless, great sound!! I don't even notice I'm wearing headphones. I used them at work today and running this evening and pronounce them good.
And then it got darker and busier
And we asked our pretty little dark haired waitress to take a family photo of us to commemorate my birthday.
On Sunday I cleaned house most of the day. We had smoked turkey drumsticks, collards cooked in chicken broth with pancetta, olive oil and maple sugar meat rub seasoning and oven roasted fingerling potatoes seasoned with Penzey's Chicago steak seasoning. Then we watched Avatar again in Blu-ray on our big screen TV with surround sound. Who needs to go to the theater. That brings us to Monday....my birthday. But it is now way past my bedtime. We are going to an Emmy Lou Harris concert tomorrow night on UB Amherst campus. Rachel's (our favorite Greek restaurant) has a satellite restaurant on campus) I think we will meet there for dinner and then the concert. After maybe another late night will get me up to speed on my blogging.
Saturday we left at 10:30 for Rochester for the St John Fisher football game at noon. Because we had to leave so early I skipped my normal Saturday morning exercise class and run. (There is another reason I skipped class. I had to shampoo the carpet in my car because a few days earlier a gallon jug of milk had tipped over and leaked in the back of my car. I thought I had taken care of the spill but way more had spilled than I thought and I had been driving to work gagging over sour milk smell for a couple days. It ended disastrously with the purchase of new carpeting. What can I say.) I always enjoyed watching Fisher play football but my focus had always been on Jay and nerves had always been involved. Now that he is just helping to coach and I don't know these boys out on the field, I can focus more on paying attention to the game. This was an exciting high scoring game 49 to 55 with Fisher losing. :( Fisher kept us on the edge of our seats up to the very last second of the game when they threw a Hail Mary Surprise with the ball exchanging hands about six times.
After the game we went back to Jay's house to see the new patio we gave him for his birthday. He plans to landscape and build a shed come spring. We said hello to the kitties Tess and Brody and then drove downtown to a French restaurant called 2Vine. We had eaten here three years ago while attending the Rochester International Jazz Festival and I had been very impressed with the food and the ambiance.
We were having an early dinner so it's not very crowded in the pic but by the time we left the place was packed. We sat at the bar for a few minutes and ordered drinks and snacked on yummy dry roasted garbanzo beans and fava beans while our table was being prepared. Gazing at the drink menu I noticed that three or four of the drinks featured the Green Fairy - absinthe. I had actually thought this was a banned substance. The bartender showed me the eerie green liquor in a bottle that looked like it could have been purchased from Anthropolgie.
We placed our order. I was interested in the eggs du jour. A thin omelet with tomato concasse and parm. B said he would get up and walk out if I ordered eggs so I ordered the same thing I had ordered three years ago. Then I watched the sun set and dozens of crows swoop back and forth the across the skyline.
B and I both ordered the soup du jour. A creamy pumpkin soup with sage and bits of toasted walnut with sage creme fraiche. Yummy yummy but I burnt my esophagus it was so hot.
B and I both ordered the same roasted beet salad. Greens with a couple roasted beets, grapes, mango, and Maytag blue.
I had the mussels in a light fennel broth
served with pomme frites
Jay had the burger with pomme frites and would not allow me to photograph it. B had a duck dish.
Then I opened these beautiful green amethyst and diamond earrings and pretended that I had no idea what was in the package. We had bid on them and won them last month at the NCCC Scholarship Gala Fundraiser.
And a hoodie and Nike Vapor headphones from Jay. Finally a pair of headphones that don't fall out of your ears....secure, weightless, great sound!! I don't even notice I'm wearing headphones. I used them at work today and running this evening and pronounce them good.
And then it got darker and busier
And we asked our pretty little dark haired waitress to take a family photo of us to commemorate my birthday.
On Sunday I cleaned house most of the day. We had smoked turkey drumsticks, collards cooked in chicken broth with pancetta, olive oil and maple sugar meat rub seasoning and oven roasted fingerling potatoes seasoned with Penzey's Chicago steak seasoning. Then we watched Avatar again in Blu-ray on our big screen TV with surround sound. Who needs to go to the theater. That brings us to Monday....my birthday. But it is now way past my bedtime. We are going to an Emmy Lou Harris concert tomorrow night on UB Amherst campus. Rachel's (our favorite Greek restaurant) has a satellite restaurant on campus) I think we will meet there for dinner and then the concert. After maybe another late night will get me up to speed on my blogging.
Monday, November 1, 2010
lost in translation
It was one of those meals where everything starts out colorful and ends up the same color.
I simmered this colorful mix of cauliflower and broccoli stems, red cabbage and carrots along with a chopped bright red apple and a handful of pecans in apple cider. I baked salmon with maple syrup and black pepper. I dredged little red tomato slices in cornmeal and fried them in olive oil.
Every thing turned out the same shade of brownish yellow. But.....everything turned out delicious. So it just goes to show ya......beauty and deliciousness do not always go hand in hand.
I simmered this colorful mix of cauliflower and broccoli stems, red cabbage and carrots along with a chopped bright red apple and a handful of pecans in apple cider. I baked salmon with maple syrup and black pepper. I dredged little red tomato slices in cornmeal and fried them in olive oil.
Every thing turned out the same shade of brownish yellow. But.....everything turned out delicious. So it just goes to show ya......beauty and deliciousness do not always go hand in hand.
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