July 9, 2025, Breakfast – Bagels and Gravad Lax Lunch – Museum Hill Café Dinner – Leftover Beef Short Ribs with Casarecce Pasta and mushrooms

July 9, 2025, Breakfast – Bagels and Gravad Lax   Lunch – Museum Hill Café Dinner – Leftover Beef Short Ribs with Casarecce Pasta and mushrooms

We got up around 7:00 in the casita at T.R and Linda’s home in Santa Fe. We watched the Market take off again and then toasted two bagels, spread them with cream cheese, and garnished them with capers and gravad lax and drank coffee with them.  We then walked around the front yard two times while Linda walked with Gypsy II up the hill  

T.R. was not feeling well and decided to go to be checked at the hospital, so Linda and we drove to Museum Hill and used our IFAM membership for the first time to view two terrific exhibits, South African telephone wire decorated objects and finger painted images mostly of family totems from Vanatoa.

The around 11:30 we went to the Museum Hill Café for lunch. Suzette and Linda split the Curried Lentil and Orzo Salad and I ordered the Crab Cakes.  Suzette and I ordered t new rose from Appellation Minervois in Languedoc named Chateau de Parvaza that was rather pleasant if a bit harsh on the finish.

I loved the crab cakes. They had just enough bread crumbs to satisfy my need for carbohydrates and the crab tasted fresh with a small salad with a Dijonnaise dressing. The girls like their salad with its combination of lentils, Orzo and salad.

After lunch we drove to Ownings Gallery and looked at the paintings and then went next door to the library to listen to a new band from Pakistan that Suzette wanted to hear.

When the group finished we left the Library it was around 3:30 and drove to the Railyard to wait for the IFAM parade of all the attendees from the 50 countries selling their wares at the Folk Art Show this weekend.

We first went to Blue Rain and showed Linda the new Erin Currier painting I am buying and then we went to Site Santa Fe but it was closed, so we walked back to 2^nd Street Brewery in the Railyard, which helped me to get up to 4800 steps for the day.

We ordered sodas at 4:00 and then at 5:00 Suzette and Linda ordered beers.

We waited until 6:20 for the parade to start and it did not, even though lots of locals had arrived and set up their folding chairs; so Suzette, being Suzette, and Linda, being Linda, said let’s go see the parade and let’s leave respectively.

 

So we walked north up the platform where the parade was assembling through the throng of attendees in their native costumes back to Linda’s SUV and returned to their house.

TR was back with no further prognosis but sitting comfortably on the front porch reading a book.

We packed up some of our leftover food items, said goodbye and drove home at 7:30 and got home around 8:30.

We were not terribly hungry but decided to heat up some of the leftover Beef Short Ribs and Pasta dish that we ate with a Southern Rhone style wine named Tenebres G.S.M. (Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre).

We went to bed by 10:30 after a full day of activity in Santa Fe and in the market. It seems everyone is buying NVDA, but the other high tech stocks went up again today to help my portfolio go up 1.2$ to reach a new all-time high.

I very big day all around.

Bon Appetit