“Friends and New Relatives”
Diana made a last minute trip to California to take care of her Mom. It’s hard for her with the sciatica and long plane trips, but she’s a trooper and muscles through it. The good news is that Clorinda was released from hospital after a few days and was happy to be home again.
We had an exciting new addition to the family this week. Heather and Michael’s baby, Hamish, arrived at 8lbs 1oz and “very long.” Everyone is doing well as evidenced by these pictures. Not sure the dog, Milo, knows what to make of it all.
Neffie and Shaun and kids arrived on Thursday night late, on their way to New York to support another kid dancing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. They are nuts to drive!
Kenny came over on Friday and we hung out for a while before lunch at Shaya. Always so amazing – the lamb ragu hummus is still the best I’ve had.
We stopped at Mignon Faget on the way to lunch so that I could do some early shopping for the holidays. That ended up taking way longer than it should have – you know how patient I am with shopping expeditions.
Saturday was an excellent music day for me, thanks to Kenny, Kara, and Colleen. Kenny got us on the guest list for his cousin, Tim Laughlin’s, concert with Tom McDermott at Tom’s house. Here they perform my favourite Scott Joplin rag (Pineapple):
It was a bit unusual being in an artist’s home with bedroom and kitchen all open plan to the group attending the show – at the same time very intimate and welcoming. I think Tim is a huge talent.
We followed that with a visit to the Kingpin to see the Iguanas perform. These guys were a huge local band about twenty years ago. Our friend, Derek, was a member back in the day.
I gave up on “The Bee Sting” this week. I just can’t deal with the complete lack of punctuation for hundreds of pages – no periods, commas, or quotation marks. Why? What’s the point the author is trying to make? I can parse it and read it, and I persevered for a while. But no more. This is the first book that I’ve given up on in several years. Disappointing. All of you reviewers that raved about this book need to rethink your opinions!
An interesting new take on a classic that I first heard done by David Coverdale and Whitesnake over forty years ago:
I know the Robert Palmer version of this, but had not heard this classic take:
A great sound:
Coexist peacefully, with patience and kindness for all!