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partying hard tonight
Friday, October 27 2017
This evening I got out of work early so Gretchen and I could meet up with Susan & David at the Garden Café partially in celebration of Susan's recent birthday. Gretchen had worked for some time in the kitchen to make little cream-filled muffins resembling Twinkies (in flavor if not shape), since Susan likes trashy desserts. The evening was cool, so there was no dining outdoors. I had the panini portobello sandwich and the vegetable-kale soup, which was a bit more than I could comfortably devour. [REDACTED] I also had a Southern Tier 2XIPA, though I was the only one at the table drinking. David is still on some form of his acid-reflux-fighting diet, so his idea of a drink was a cup of chamomile tea. "We're partying hard tonight!" I declared.
After dinner, we went back briefly to Susan & David's place to see all the new landscaping around their house and Susan's studio. It was a mix of river birches and Norway spruces, perhaps a few too many I thought, with some big dramatic rocks dragged over from other parts of the property. They also had a gorgeous new bluestone patio outside the doors from their new(ish) basement bedroom, with more trees planted out in the field beyond to block the view of a house back there. Before we left, Susan gave Gretchen a bunch of food that had been languishing in the refrigerator, some of it because it was a few days past the "best if eaten by" date. (Susan takes that stuff as seriously as a Juicero.)
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