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Jan 05
Worst Day Run
January in the Seattle area is usually cold and rainy. Sometimes high winds get thrown in to compound the misery. As I write this, some intrepid runners are gathering in downtown Bothell for the Worst Day of the Year Run. This is of a piece with other cold-weather lunacies, such as the assorted Polar Bear …
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Jan 05
A Bittersweet New Year
We attended the traditional New Year’s Eve gathering in the old neighborhood. Our host made soup with black-eyed peas, spinach, and sausage. (In the Southern US and in Northeast Seattle, eating black-eyed peas and greens foretell a good year.) Julian brought herring, which he considers a good luck food for the New Year. (Personally, I …
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Dec 29
Spamorama
We had lunch at a Japanese/Vietnamese spot today, Poké Café. Julian had a banh mi, I had a ramen bowl. After he finished the banh mi, he decided that it time to try spam musubi. For those of you in Sheboygan or Syracuse, Spam musubi is a quintessentially Hawaiian food. It consists of rice and Spam …
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Dec 25
Christmas Cookbooks
I think Julian wants me to fill up the new bookshelves. In addition to the five we brought home from France last week, I received these: For my part, I got him some implements with which to cook the recipes from these books. A local cookware store is closing because the owner is retiring.
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Dec 25
White Elephants
I went to two White Elephant holiday parties this year. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a White Elephant is a gift you’ll never use or desperately need to be rid of. Participants wrap the item and add it to a pile of presents from other partiers. You draw numbers and pick a …
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Dec 23
Last Day in Paris
Our last day in Paris was jam-packed. Bruce attended Mass while Julian and I went to the Grenelle open-air market. We always seem to go to these markets the day before we return to chain-grocery monotony. The displays of fish, meats, cheeses, and other foodstuffs were tempting. Julian bought a vegetable peeler and a tin …
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Dec 17
More Vacation Lessons
Nobody needed to visit an emergency room this year. We got to Charles de Gaulle Airport in plenty of time to catch our flight home. We had congenial companionship with our friend Bruce and Julian’s cousin Kitty. With the exception of the train ride back from Chartres, it was a very pleasant vacation. As usual, …
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Dec 16
A Train Wreck of a Day
We took the train out of Paris to Chartres on Saturday to visit the cathedral. Getting to Gare Montparnasse was a feat in itself, given the closures of many Metro stations due to the Gilets Jaunes (yellow vest) protests. However, we got to the station and reached the town around noon. Lunch was at Tomate …
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Dec 16
A New Title for the Trip
Julian originally called this trip “To the Barricades”, in honor of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests that have been occurring every Saturday for several weeks. The more apropos title might be “Aux Églises” (To the Churches). Here’s the rundown of the ones we’ve visited on this trip: St. Denis, Sainte Chapelle, Notre Dame de …
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Dec 16
Montmartre Revisited
In a post three years ago, I registered my reservations about the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur. We went there today after our sojourn to the Eiffel Tower. It could be that the neighborhood is growing on me, or at least the basilica is. It was much less crowded than in …
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