At the end of the day, after a productive family zoom-type meeting, I was feeling like I wanted a ‘hattan. It wasn’t quiiite cocktail hour so I was heading out to the back yard to read for a bit. (I’m just starting in on “Betty”, more on that in a future blahg.)

Before I got even halfway through the kitchen, the beach urchin who organized and “ran” the meeting texted, “Can I come over for a ‘hattan?” Yes yes yes yes. And so she did. When she got here, we were both a bit confused by the GG’s whereabouts. I heard him slam down the bathroom window (not in anger, just because it’s a cranky old window and slams of its own accord), then I lost track of where he was. Somewhere in the back yard maybe? Lizard had tried to text and call him with no success. I wasn’t really worried but, like, WTF. Oh. Here he is. Riding into the back yard on his eBike. And he had left his phone behind…

As we were drinking our ‘hattans, I mentioned that I had eggplant parm in the hopper for dinner. And asparagus and garlic bread and pesto couscous salad, an impulse purchase from the prepared food section at the Plum (it was good!). Don’tcha know, the beach urchin stayed for dinner.

Thanks to blahg commenters and off-line folks for TV suggestions. Tonight we are not watching anything. Mr. Chainsaw Man is super tired although he may not know it and I am just chilling out like I do at this time of the evening.

I posted about turkeys on the moominbeach a while back and here is a better pic including a Thanksgiving looking turkey dad. Embiggen him a couple times! Why do they seem to be living there? Is our neighbor-cousin feeding them? Stay tuned.

P.S. Don’t get me wrong. The family meeting was really good and the ‘hattans were NOT to de-stress. Any stress we have over these zoom meetings is because of distance. It would really be better to just GET TOGETHER in person. But it is what it is…

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