Eating with Bob and Suzette: November 9, 2024 breakfast - chocolate croissant. Lunch - Posole. Dinner

Sunday, November 10, 2024

November 9, 2024 breakfast - chocolate croissant. Lunch - Posole. Dinner - Tabouli Salad and Chicken Quesadilla

Yesterday I was hungry and today I was not.

I ate a chocolate croissant and a latte macchiato for breakfast and watched Crystal Palace beat Fulham.

Then at 9:30 we started watching the second session of Santa Fe auction. We were amazed by the prices paid for some of the art, especially artists we had not heard of and artists’ whose work we had bought for very little money and awful works that went for a lot of money. Alternatively the three works we bought were very inexpensive. We got a large Helmuth Naumer for around $1300, a Madeline Bagshaw, Helen Hardin’s daughter, for $900, and a good Carlos Vierra for $1200, which was amazing.

It seemed like the art market had turned upside down with several important artist’s works going for less than they should have. It also made me aware that Suzette and I share the same awareness about art, to buy good works by good artists at good prices. These three purchased works add two new artists to our collection and the large lovely Naumer pastel will go above our bed.

I ate a big bowl of Posole at 11:30 garnished with sour cream and crushed dried oregano from our garden.

Then at the break between the morning and afternoon sessions from 12:00 to 1:00 I shopped at El Super to replenish fruits and vegetables with bananas, lemons for limoncello, carrots, spinach, radishes,and for tabouli parsley, green onions, cucumbers, and Roma tomatoes, plus yellow squash, Snow peas, yellow onions, romaine lettuce, celery, two small avocados, yogurt, and strawberries.

I returned home at 1:00 in time to see the third session. We bid on several pieces but only bought the small Bagshaw, as many artists’ works we own went for big prices, which made us feel good but prevented us from bidding.

When the auction ended around 3:30 I went to Charlie’s because he had agreed to witness several documents for me.

While we watched the auction I also watched Liverpool beat Aston Villa and Texas beat Florida without volume.

When I returned from Charlie’s at 5:00 I watched TCU beat an enfeebled Oklahoma State.

Then I watched an exciting upset in which No. 16 Old Miss beat No. 3 Georgia and then No. 11 Alabama beat No. 14 LSU. There will be a shake up in the standings this week because Georgia Tech also beat No. 4 Miami.

Texas could move up to No. 3.

We did not really cook dinner. Instead Suzette grilled a chicken, cheese, and tomato quesadilla in a large flour tortilla folded in half that she shared with me and I made a tabouli salad with tabouli and romaine lettuce with two sliced radishes, a chopped celery stalk, 1/2 of a Roma tomato diced and ten cracked green olives drizzled with olive oil and juice of 1/2 lemon.