Trying to muster the courage to leave my hotel room and venture out into the summer heat to get to the Whitesox / Royals game across the street (and by that I mean I-70).
Cooking a coq au vin. Mine is never as photogenic as the ones in the cook books, but the taste... Also drinking wine.
Too late for the coq au vin, poor thing didn’t last long, but I do have others. Its time to upload them I think.
Getting ready to start a musical evening - streaming a few of my favorite pieces: 1. Appetizer - André Watts plays Liszt Grande Etudes - #3 La Campanella. 3½ minutes of kickass piano. 2. Entrée - Ricardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony - Beethoven Symphony No. 9 3. Dessert - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto #3 - Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic
I’m having a sit down with a coffee to let my back recover from the tidying. I’m about to go start dinner, a pot roast that will take eight hours to slow cook, should be ready for half six.
Stuffing towels on the windowsills on the north side of the house. When the storm is this fierce, the strong winds blow rainwater through the window seams.