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| Alice made scones and poppy-seed cake. |
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| Pastry at Kerrytown yesterday morning. (OK, the baked goods are not fabulous any more at Sweetwaters) |
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| The coffee is ok. But we probably won’t choose to go there as much as we once did. |
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| This morning: Local peaches with pancakes: always a favorite in August. |
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| Alice cooked chicken and vegetables for a delicious dinner. Ice cream bars for dessert. |
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| One Sandhill Crane was wading in the pond. Michigan is now home to around 25,000 cranes, with many more present during migration. Cranes were almost extinct 60 years ago, with a dramatic turnaround in the 1970s. |
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| Spring flowers were beautiful. |
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| A sale of garden plants was taking place in one of the greenhouses. |
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| We didn’t want to plant sneezeweed, but it’s a great plant name. |
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| Pork chops and snow peas with mushrooms. |
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| I’m finding it hard to follow this book, which varies from one location, from one set of characters, from one mindset, and then switches to another place, time, person, scene. When I began reading Tokarcuk’s Flights, it was a relief to read well-formed sentences and well-thought-out phrases, no stupid analogies (see next book)! But then I bogged down and only read half. |
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| Free book from amazon.com. It stinks. Bad writing, bad characterization, bad in every way. I tried hard but only read around 30%, |
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| An insanely long book (over 700 pages), but maybe I’ll read it all. |
