How is your summer time going to this point? Proper now Anton’s touring along with his dad, and I miss him a lot! It’s a hard part of being divorced, however I’m attempting to work on it like a muscle and lean into different issues. So! This previous weekend, Toby, Freddie, and I drove upstate to go to buddies. When Freddie got here to select us up, he made us chuckle with this signal.
Right here’s the view from their porch! So cool to have a pool within the entrance yard.
Our good friend Jimmy made linguine with clam sauce (NYTimes reward hyperlink) for dinner — “However I used recent shucked clams, not canned,” he advised me, “They’ve a greater style and really feel.” — together with Alison Roman’s spicy breadcrumbs, or “savory sprinkles” as his children known as them. Soooo scrumptious and lemony.
Afterward, we performed Ono 99 (a really enjoyable, rousing sport that’s simple to study), and I cherished these expressions when these two realized they had been going to lose.
Bear in mind Sharon?
We additionally went to a close-by cheese shop with the funniest little indicators. This one made me chuckle: “Wonderful gouda of unknown windfall and undetermined age. Purchased from our Belgian cheese man, who supplied no supporting documentation and isn’t answering his emails. In all probability Dutch, possibly Belgian.”
Lastly, my fantastic good friend simply bought surgical procedure and requested for fast humorous podcasts whereas recovering. I remembered this old round-up — what would you add to the checklist?
Hope your summer time goes effectively, though after all it doesn’t must be! As Zora Neale Hurston wrote, “There are years that ask questions and years that reply.” What have you ever been as much as? Right here for all of it, and sending love, as at all times. xoxo
P.S. A number of extra pick-me-ups:
* fun break-up advice from Gemma
* delicious boxed brownies and cool $40 sandals you can hike in
* asking long-time friends to hang out (made me chuckle)
* sneaking potato chips into recipes and meeting the neighbors
* the difference between hotels and Airbnbs, hahaha
(VW bug photograph by Grace Cady.)
