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Haircut. Karen ran the mini-lawnmower around. Very satisfactory results. Continue reading
Category Archives: Food
2/8/2021 – Monday – first missed Orton sibling chat in more than ten months
Didn’t know about comics in the Washington Post
Lots of work on describing capitalism for talk with Jonathan. He sent me PowerPoint for his next lecture. Also replied at length to Cindy Weisbart about financialization and monopolization of the economy. Continue reading
1/31/2021 – Sunday – steak for dinner
Continued very cold.
Shopping before breakfast. Bought some sausages for breakfast. Scrambled eggs.
NYTimes then more work on OldDodgeVan. Zoom with Leiden.
Sunday drive. Catskill and environs.
Octagonal house off Division St. Hidden behind trees.
Steak for dinner. A new monthly ritual. 
1/28/2021 – Thursday – more old photos
More work on scanning old photos. 
Jonathan and Andrea in the loft bedroom 266 Western ~1977.
Helped Linda with her online grocery shopping.
Brief chat with Ryder and Erin at UTMH
Tennis lesson. Offense, Neutral, Defense. No noticeable pain.
Made a ton of roasted veggie gorp with sausage. Spicy. 6 lbs leftover.
Drinks with Karen. Moving family history project to olddodgevan.com
More Jack Irish series.
1/22/2021 – Friday – Bernie Sanders and his mittens
- Walk first thing. Didn’t go further than 6th St.
More work on Things That Matter essay.
Library matters. The personnel policy fiasco. Met with Emily to plan for special board meeting.
Bernie Sanders is all the rage for his old winter coat and mittens. Continue reading
1/17/2021 – Sunday – Noah and Kiara visit.
Sunday NYTimes
Short walk for me; longer walk for Karen. Hips and knees bothering me.
Noah and girlfriend Kiara Guyton came by. Mostly chat about their upcoming semester at Penn. Then brief Zoom with Leiden division before they left. We stayed on for a while. Spoke at some length about the white supremacist fascist insurgence here.
Karen attended some sort of book publishing webinar. I went shopping for a few things for dinner soup.
Made spicy sausage with asparagus confit to go with the butternut squash soup.
Dave and Hazel came for dinner at 5pm. Butternut squash soup with confit. Garlic bread. Dave brought homemade butter pecan ice cream.
More George Gently!
1/16/2021 – Saturday – library board meeting, knee problems
HAL BOT mtg.
Talked with Emily about family health insurance for new hire. Then spoke with Caitie Hilverman about board development work and board meeting.
Board meeting was active and engaged. Caitie, Charlie, Annamaria, and others showed real energy.
Tennis with Ted. Knee continues to be troublesome. Good hour.
Made butternut squash soup.
Chat with Anne, Ted, Ellen Feldman. Ted is in Redhook.
1/15/2021 – Friday – Karen gets first COVID 19 vaccination
Karen off to CG Community College for COVID vaccine. 
Very efficient. 45 minutes.
Shopping at Shoprite. Then I went off to Shoprite again for forgotten cranberry juice. Gas up car. Bank for cash. Wine. 
Nap.
Esther chat. Always buoyant and entertaining.
More George Gently.
1/12/2021 – Tuesday – various – helped Linda Larson with online food shopping
Group Photos project. Made it back to 2004. Need Karen to help out.
UTMH team meeting.
Talk with Carol Pledger and Emily about family health insurance. Big financial implications.
Karen made meatloaf.
1/2/2021 – Saturday – what do we eat during the pandemic – drinks
Nan asked what we have been eating during the pandemic. This provoked the expenditure of lots of time and energy to create an answer. Food During The Pandemic (opens new window)
Some thought that it might dry enough for some tennis. Temp reached 44. But nets have disappeared probably until end March.
Went to Fairview Wine. Bought exactly the Bordeaux’s that Ted and Anne served a few weeks back.
Need to do a lot of cleaning on the markorton.com site.
Ted and Anne came for drinks. They were happy with the heater even though temperature outdoors was 35 degrees. Anne talked about her childhood and her father. Not so happy to be sure.
More George Gently series.