Rotten Teeth

A very busy week.  I had an hour and 45 minutes appointment with my dentist that left me shaking. I have to have three teeth fixed. It’s very expensive, so it’s lucky that Woody got a bargain on his lightly used car. We had a strict limit, and Woody came under it  so we can pay the dentist for everything she is doing on my teeth. If course, that long in the dentist’s chair normally lays up me for a couple of days with a back too painful to endure—but what choice is there? I’ve had terrible teeth since childhood – never went to a dentist till I took myself to one when I was 17.  Low protein, high sugar diet growing up.  I’ve spent enough on my teeth over the years to cover college education.

The garlic was very late so as the apology, Territorial sent a couple of orders and only charged for a single order. The Mount Hood and Siberian hard neck garlic had immense cloves – the bigger the clove, the more chance of good healthy garlic at harvest. There’s more than will fit in the plot Woody prepared.  He’ll have to plant some down below in the bean garden. Hard neck garlic is the best flavored. And bigger cloves, less waste, easier to deal with. Soft neck is what’s grown commercially and available in supermarkets.

The book came back to again with more comments. I finished Thursday and sent it back. Also sent a bio, dedication, and acknowledgments. Are we ready to go to press? We’ll see.

We’re having Bonnie and David over tonight. They just moved into the house in Wellfleet where they had in the last few years been spending spring and fall and renting it out in the summer. They lived the rest of the time with friends in a big house in Brookline. They finally cleared that out, friends who shared it found other places to live and now prepped it for selling.  Moving here was an enormous task and knocked them out. They bought their Wellfleet house from people who gardened, so they have a fig tree and lots of productive bushes and trees and pretty ornamentals.

For hors d’oeuvres, we’ll have some good cheese, crackers and mixed olives.  I’ll make a spoon roast, potatoes lyonnaise, mushrooms in a cream sauce and Woody will make a salad. This morning I’m making a triple chocolate mousse. 

We began feeding birds two weeks ago. The goldfinches and chickadees found it with two hours of the feeder’s going up loaded with birdseed. We have constant feeder traffic visible from where we eat, one feeder on the north side of the dining room and one on the south side. Both ae swarmed all day.

Dale is off all week in New Hampshire with his partner Stephen. It’s late for leaf peeking but the mountains ae always gorgeous and they are staying in a nice fancy place.