September 1, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Fried Dumplings with Egg noodles, mushrooms, Onion, and steak. Dinner - Leftover Chicken pot pie with Sautéed Chard, pinon nuts, and dried cherries DDay minus 1

September 1, 2026 Breakfast - Granola. Lunch - Fried Dumplings with Egg noodles, mushrooms, Onion, and steak. Dinner - Leftover Chicken pot pie with Sautéed Chard, pinon nuts, and dried cherries  DDay minus 1

I worked from 2:30 to 4:30. Then drank a cup of chai and went back to bed and slept until 8:00.

I ate a bowl of granola with milk, peaches, blueberries, and yogurt.

I edited the Notice of Appeal and filed it in the morning and worked on the Docketing statement until 12:30 when stopped to fix lunch. I wanted to eat the leftover stir fried noodles with steak from last night, but there was not much of it so I fried six dumplings in the leftover bacon grease from last night’s BLT bacon frying and added about 2 oz. each of sliced mushrooms and red onion and when everything seemed cooked, I added the leftover stir fried noodles, green chili, and steak.

I also mixed garlic chili paste, sesame oil, and soy and then added two green onions sliced into thin ringlets. It was a great lunch.

After lunch I made a Vietnamese iced coffee and pushed to finish editing the docketing statement.

Then I finished two wills and the docketing statement and electronically filed the docketing statement in the court of Appeals around 4:30 and sent copies of the Notice of Appeal and Docketing statement to all the lawyers listed for service by 5:30. 

I then drove to the bank, the library, finally Costco to pick up prescription refills. I returned home at 6:45 just in time to mince three small shallots, three small sweet chili peppers.

At 7:00 I made a gin and tonic and sat down to watch Finding Your Roots. Willy arrived and Suzette heated slices of pot pie and stir fried the spun chard with dried cherries, and pinon nuts. Suzette fetched a bottle of chilled Faustino Rivera Uclea Albariño from the garage fridge and poured glasses of it.

We enjoyed dinner and then called Luke and talked to him for a bit.

When Willy left around 8:45 I packed my grip and by 9:30 we started looking for our wills, which we never found and Suzette went to bed around 10:00.

I stayed up to blog and finish my gin and tonic and then drank a cup of chai with collagen and finally went to bed around 11:30.

Bon Appetit

August 31, 2026 Breakfast - Granola Lunch - Chicken Pot pie from The Greenhouse Bistro. Dinner - BLT Sandwiches with tomato Mayo and bread and butter pickles

August 31, 2026 Breakfast - Granola  Lunch - Chicken Pot pie from The Greenhouse Bistro. Dinner - BLT Sandwiches with tomato Mayo and bread and butter pickles

I spent the morning at my desk after I ate granola with peaches, blueberries, yogurt, and milk editing a pleading.

Then at 1:00 Tonya came to look at my art collection and discuss consigning my Christo to her Gallery for sale. She was incredibly knowledgable and excited about many of my art works, which made me happy.

After 2 hours of mostly looking at art, we worked out an agreement for me to appoint her gallery to sell my Christo.  

Suzette arrived around 3:00 while Tonya was drafting the agreement and brought home a chicken Pot Pie made at her Greenhouse Bistro in Los Lunas.

Neither of us had eaten, so we each ate a slice of the still warm pot pie for lunch.

Dinner - At 6:30 when I asked about dinner Suzette said, “We are eating BLT sandwiches.” 

No discussed needed, but at 6:32 I received a call from Todd reminding me that our weekly meditation was starting, so I meditated while Suzette fried six slices of thick cut bacon and sliced some tomatoes from our garden and one from the store, tore some leaves of lettuce, sliced 1/2 avocado, and mixed several of the small orange cherry tomatoes with Mayo and herbs and fetched the jar of homemade sweet bread and butter pickles.

She also opened a bottle of chilled Red Tail Ridge Pinot noir rose’ produced ob the west side of Lake Seneca in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. It was fabulous. I think I bought six bottles and this is the second or third bottle we have drunk and we love it.  We drink a lot of Pinot Noir rose and the thing I like about this wine is its charity and crispness. It does not have any of that musty aftertaste that so many California wines have.

After dinner Suzette heated small bowls of the peach cobbler she made last night that we ate with scoops of Kroger Artisanal Vanilla Ice cream and the last glass of Vara’s amazing Late harvest Albariño produced with California grapes. It does not express any Botrytis notes but it is intensely sweet.

I drafted wills after dinner. When I finished at 9:30, I went to bed.

Bon Appetit

August 30, 2026 Breakfast - Toasted Cheese and jam Sandwiches Lunch - Lentil Stew, mushroom, and hotdog omelet. Dinner - Stir fried Egg noodles with mushroom, wood ear, leeks and steak

August 30, 2026 Breakfast - Toasted Cheese and jam Sandwiches  Lunch - Lentil Stew, mushroom, and hotdog omelet. Dinner - Stir fried Egg noodles with mushroom, wood ear, leeks and steak

Most of the day was spent working at our desks, except we did some gardening and then rode our bikes around the neighborhood.

I woke up at 7:30 and ate toasted baguette smeared with butter and cherry preserves and garnished with slices of Jarlsberg cheese with a chai.

At 1:30 we were hungry so I sliced four portobello mushrooms and a shallot and we sautéed those ingredients with the leftover lentil stew with hotdogs leftover from last night’s dinner and added four whisked eggs and 4 orange cherry tomatoes cut in half.

At 6:00 we watched Miss Fisher and snacked on cheddar cheese slices and Ritz crackers.

Dinner - at 7:00 we began dinner prep.

I sliced the white part of three leeks, the rest of the fresh wood ears, 1/2 of a big Jim green chili, three cloves of garlic, about a T. of ginger, and 3 oz. of brown beech mushrooms plus 3/4 lb. of rib steak into 1 inch by 1/4 inch  long strips.

Suzette fetched the wok and made a seasoning sauce with about 1-2 T. each of sweet soy, red miso, hoisin sauce, and mirin.

When Willy arrived at 7:15 we started cooking. Suzette stir fried the ingredients in the wok in peanut oil.

Then she boiled 1/2 lb. of fresh egg noodles in boiling water for two minutes and then added them to the wok and added the seasoning sauce and mixed the ingredients for a couple of minutes to coat everything with sauce and then filled three bowls with the noodle mixture.

I opened a bottle of Cahors French Malbec and poured three glasses.

After dinner we watch an episode of Ted Lasso ate a few forks filled with the fresh peach cobbler Suzette made while i was prepping ingredients from peaches grown at the Center..

Then at noodles were delicious and the cobbler was amazing.

We watched an episode of Ted Lasso, said goodnight to Willy, and went to bed at 8:30.

Bon Appetit

August 29, 2026 Breakfast - Men on an Island. Lunch - Plants of the Southwest Garden Center Dinner - Leftover Lentil Stew with Bologna and rice

August 29, 2026 Breakfast - Men on an Island. Lunch - Plants of the Southwest Garden Center  Dinner - Leftover Lentil Stew with Bologna and rice

I woke up at 7:30 because we were going to Santa Fe for the day.

I fixed two men on Islands for breakfast, one for each of us (an egg fried onto a skillet toasted slice of whole wheat bread). We left at 9:00 and gassed up at Costco and then drove to Santa Fe. 

We first went to Charlotte Jackson’s Gallery to pick up my Ron Davis work. Suzette became infatuated with the glittering polycarbonate spheres by a local artist and I decided on the spot to buy the one Suzette like for her birthday present.

We decided to return and pick the two pieces up after lunch.

We then drove to the Turner Carrol Gallery on Canyon Rd. to see its Christo exhibit. The exhibit was lithographs all priced from $15,00 to $20,000 each. I told Jeffrey, the attendant I had a real Christo and got huffy and said, “These are all real Christos.” 

I replied, “But my Christo was made handmade by Christo with a collage of the site photo and plastic foam used to surround the islands in Biscayne Bay in 1983.”

I got his attention when I said I might let them sell my Christo and he gave me his card.

When I returned home after 4:00 I sent him the information and provenance on the work.

The result is that the owner will come Monday to inspect the work and discuss consignment.

It was just after noon when we drove to the Plants of the Southwest garden center for a birthday lunch. We met Amy whose birthday was the 28th, Vahl whose birthday is the 30th, and Suzette’s is August 25th.

Willy drove up in his newly repaired car to join us. Lunch is served Thursday through Saturday and it is 2 course table d’ hotel at a fixe prix of $28.00 with drinks and dessert extra.

Everyone except me ordered hibiscus iced tea. The first course was 2 okaters of summer vegetables dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. There must have been five or six different tomatoes that are at the height of their ripeness plus cucumber, cooked eggplant, red onion, and local feta cheese. It reminded me of the amazing tomato salads we ate in Cantabria.

After we finished most of the salad we were each served a pasta bowl filled with a vegetable and dark bread stew that included baby zucchini, carrots, and several other vegetables topped with a thick slice of the local feta cheese. The tomatoes had cooked into the vegetable broth.

I had trouble finishing because there was so much.

We decided against dessert.

We said goodbye to everyone and drove to the pie Project near Santa Fe Auction to see the Larry Bell works. We were disappointed. The quality was low and the prices were high, but there were several early Florence Pierce white resin pieces made before she added color.

We the returned to Charlotte Jackson’s and picked up our two works. Charlotte was ecstatic because she had sold out the exhibit.

We loaded the pieces and drove home, arriving around 4:00.

I rested until 5:00 and at 6:00 we watched Bill Maher. At 7:00 we started cooking dinner.

Dinner - we had a small container of lentil stew from Friday’s lunch at Bobcat Bites. Suzette diced the slices of Bologna added that and some leftover rice to the stew. It was a simple meal of leftovers that exemplify how we combine and covert PPIs into new dishes.

We watched Father Brown and Death in Paradise with a dessert of the last of Suzette’s birthday cake, a lime and lavender flavored cookie with cordial glasses of Vara Late Harvest Albariño and went to bed at 10:00 after a very pleasant day of art and a wonderful vegetarian lunch with family.

Bon Appetit