Fed the cat and the birds, then ate my morning yogurt in the apple pool. Back at the house I put in a load of laundry and then went on a search for my package from Amazon, which (according to tracking) had apparently been delivered Saturday. No one in the office could find it, but then Terry remembered that UPS doesn't deliver on Saturday, so it had probably come by mail. Sure enough, it was down the road in the mailbox.
Terry went to Salida, Tom and Michael down to the row, and I spent the afternoon in the party pool, with: 9-month-old Elinore; twin spotted fawns; Michael and Mick (and their beautiful gray poodle Guapo) and their delicious hand-made caramels. I'd brought chilled peach slices in a Baggie, they brought peach slices marinated in grand mariner, and almond biscotti to accompany them. Glad I'd already told them I only had a kitchen because it came with the house: Craig, who had offered to help with the tree root; Bruce (who used to work at Dunton, and who we met at Orvis 3 weeks ago; Sandy and Greg with their hats. We all loved the song Mark taught Suzanne that Mick sang.
Around 6:00 we picked up Terry's sister Elinor (LOVE the house they built!) and then Elaine (90?) and headed off to book club in Bonanza. Knew some of the ladies (Ann, from the music festival, and Amy and Megan, from the Steel Horse) and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of Alice McDermott's "Someone". Good food, too! When we got back home Tom and Neil were finishing up that "wonderful" (NOT) movie, so we took that opportunity to wrap Neil's birthday presents. Then we finished off that chocolate pecan pie before heading off to bed.
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