20 June 2014: Friday ... A Gorgeous Day ... Sherry subbed for Pamela ... Home Depot for Draino & kitchen bags ... Skeesha's arrival ... dinner at the Farmhouse

The Farmhouse Restaurant at Loch Nairn, a favorite haunt of ours on an irregular basis. Bruno, the waiter, was there (I'd forgotten his name, unfortunately) but did not serve us. Lisa served us, our waitress and at the end of our wonderful meal I'd promised to share some of my Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake but did not. I owe her. It was absolutely fantastically decadent (which was the name of Doug's chocolate dessert).


Reading-glasses positioned prior to dinner. 


Showing off pics from home in Georgia.


Group selfie after dinner. 

12 April 2014: Saturday ... visit from Ana Steele and John Clark this glorious Saturday afternoon ... wonderful dinner with 7 at the Judy & Tom Papenhagen's ...

Wonderful visit from John and Ana (Steele) Clark this beautiful Saturday afternoon. They were traveling from Princeton, NJ, where they saw John's 90-year-old brother, and then a HS reunion for Ana at Ursuline where she graduated early at the age of 15 and went to college. Here, they display one of their 91 picture albums (they still take film photos) that focus on their many grand nieces and nephews, courtesy of brother Art's eight children. They are extremely close to many of them and know their activities and pursuits in life. So good to see them and so nice of them to stop by and see mom and me. 

(Took this photo as Ana and John entertained Mom with photos of their grand nieces and nephews. I did not ignore them but did spend a littler personal time with my dog, who entranced the Clark/Steele pair convincingly with her loving nature.) Dancer truly dislikes being picked up but she is thoroughly huggable and I took this selfie of us as she bemoaned her seated position on a chair. — with Dancer at Our home in Limestone Gardens, Wilmington, Del

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• Carol Seay Witzell, Vicki Gaither Proefrock, Sandra Eargle Sanders and 23 others like this.
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  Susan Louth I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off of her, that's for sure.

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  Karen Shields you took a good picture. I don't think i could do it.

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  Harriet C. Brantley You two have such a fun time together! Beautiful.

12 November 2013: Tuesday ... what a day of parental care finalized by mom cooking her famous flounder and carrots and dad eating two helpings ...

My Dancer post for the day during the dinner prepared
by mom tonight. Liz loves her and calls her "Princess".

• Carol Taylor Well, it's about time you posted a Dancer pic!

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  Rudy Nyhoff You, Ms. Taylor, are the reason I take blood pressure medication. You keep the pressure on and I feel it, daily, literally. But it's good for me ... keeps me going.

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  Carol Taylor Don't you know that Daily Dancer pics are you number one priority???

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  Rudy Nyhoff I know that now, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! 

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  Carol Taylor I'll let the couple of days of no Dancer pics slide this time. . . Just don't let it happen again. 

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  Rudy Nyhoff Yes ma'am.

Love of my classical music life ... Hélène Grimaud ... liked her many Facebook pages and made some
extolling comments about her artistry and her beauty and her humanity and love of nature.

I posted this YouTube link on FB --

            Hélène Grimaud plays Mozart (Trailer French)

Watch this trailer about Hélène Grimaud's new album marking two 'firsts' for Hélène Grimaud - her first live DG recording and her first ever Mozart concerto recording. 

Hélène Grimaud considers the concerto in A major "probably the most sublime concerto Mozart ever wrote", with a slow movement that is "an extremely deep and painful expression of longing, where you find the real Mozart." The concerto was a 'must-have' for this collaboration. The concerto in F major K459 is less well-known, but with a very special vitality and a virtuosic finale that is for Grimaud, "pure pianistic pleasure".

Besides the two concertos, the album includes the beautiful concert aria for orchestra, soprano and piano 'Ch'io mi scordi di te', sung by Mojca Erdmann. The aria was Mozart's declaration of love to the soprano Nancy Storace, his Susanna in the world premiere of "Le nozze di Figaro". It was composed in 1786, the same year as the Piano Concerto No.23 which it joins here.

Had the privilege of helping dad with shaving (he did it all, I just got his water ready and watched over the process) and with helping him into the shower in mom's bathroom, that claustrophobic chamber where the water temps are switched and where the pressure is so sensitive.

Clipped mom's toenails this morning. Helped make her bed after Liz ran the sheets in the washer and I placed in the dryer and then she washed the big quilt and we finished making the entire bed that evening, after mom's preparation of the fish and the carrots. More to come with photos.

Mom prepares her special sauce for the flounder and the carrots.
A rare but welcome event ... gathering around the dinner table for mom's flounder and carrots. 

Good walk tonight with Dancer ... walked into Maplecrest and Owen Drive to Milltown and left past St. John Church and School for a total of 2.67 miles. The night is chilly as a cold front moved into the region today and we actually had a few snow flurries but nothing on the ground as it was too warm.