October 28, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with milk, yogurt, and fresh raspberries. Lunch - leftover Spaghetti, hamburger, and spaghetti sauce. Dinner - Crab Cake Sandwiches with bread and butter pickles and lettuce

October 28, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with milk, yogurt, and fresh raspberries. Lunch - leftover Spaghetti, hamburger, and spaghetti sauce. Dinner - Crab Cake Sandwiches with bread and butter pickles and lettuce 

Suzette awakened me at 8:00, I filled a bowl with granola, milk,vanilla  yogurt, and fresh raspberries that I ate at my desk as I read mail.

Then I edited the draft of my motion until 10:30 when I went to the garden and cut three roses and ate a plum.  When I finished editing the motion at 1:00 I heated the leftover Spaghetti, Ground beef, mushrooms, and homemade spaghetti sauce from dinner last night and drank 1/4 glass of  Johal’s Cabernet Saugivnon with it.

Then i watched the market close and discovered my portfolio suffered a  .2727% loss.  The futures for tomorrow look much worse as there seems to be an impending sell off again of high tech stocks.

Suzette arrived around 3:00 as I renewed my professional liability insurance.

At 4:00 we drove to El Super to buy ingredients for enchiladas. We bought yellow squash and zucchini, a large bag of tomatillos, a Pasilla chili, onions, a cucumber, requeson, grated mozzarella and milled cojita cheese, warm blue corn tortillas, and hamburger buns.

When we returned home around 5:00 we started preparing the enchiladas for tomorrow night’s meal. We divide our effort when cooking. I chop and prep and Suzette cooks. That usually produces a completed meal in less than half the time it would take one person to cook it.

I diced a large onion, six cloves of garlic, and 1/2 of the Pasilla chili that Suzette started sautéing. Then I quartered the tomatillos that Suzette then cooked in the pork broth we made when we boiled the roasted boneless pork ribs and added the sautéed onion, garlic, and chili to the tomatillos. I then sliced two zucchini and one yellow squash into the rounds and diced a medium onion that Suzette sautéed. I then sliced the rest of the mushrooms, about 1 lb. 

                               The sliced Mushrooms, requeson, and shredded mozzarella

Suzette then pureed the cooked tomatillo, onion, garlic, and chili with an hand held emulsifier and heated the bag of shredded roasted and boiled pork in the microwave.

We were then ready to assemble the enchiladas. 

Suzette ladled a small amount of tomatillo sauce and water into a small skillet that was just a bit larger than a corn tortilla and sautéed six blue corn tortillas to soften them and then laid them to cover the bottom of a large Pyrex baking dish. Then she covered the tortillas with the shredded pork, 2/3 of the requeson and some sauce. Then she sautéed six more blue corn tortillas to cover the pork layer and covered them with the sautéed squash, onion, and zucchini and the rest of the requeson and some of the shredded mozzarella. Then she covered the squash layer with another layer of blue corn tortillas and spread the mushrooms and some cojita cheese on the tortillas. We ran out of blue corn tortillas so Suzette sautéed six yellow corn tortillas to cover the mushroom layer and covered them with top layer of tortillas with the rest of the shredded mozzarella and cojita cheese. She the poured the rest of the tomatillo sauce on top of the top layer and pushed it down into the sides of the stack of tortillas and ingredients and baked the enchiladas in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

While the enchiladas baked we ate dinner. Suzette fetched two chilled Negra Modelo beers and heated the two leftover crab cakes and tore lettuce and fetched the jar of home made bread and butter pickles snd the leftover tartare sauce. I toasted two hamburger buns and then assembled the sandwiches. She spread tartare sauce on the toasted hamburger buns and added a reheated crab cake, some bread and butter pickles, and torn lettuce to each and opened the beers and we had one of the best crab cake sandwiches I have ever eaten. Crab cake sandwiches are a Pennsylvania traditional sandwich that is served at almost every seafood restaurant and large outdoor market in central Pennsylvania. We always eat one when we go to the vast Routs market on Thursdays.

We then watched game five of the World Series that the Brewers won to win the Series.

I ate seven pieces of Halloween candy during the game and I and my muscles are feeling good as I write this entry at 10:30.

We invited Nancy and Clift for dinner tomorrow evening.

Bon Appetit

October 27, 2026 Breakfast - Bagels with smoked trout Lunch - Beans, Pork, Onion, and Manchego cheese. Dinner - Spaghetti, hamburger, and spaghetti Sauce.

 October 27, 2026 Breakfast - Bagels with smoked trout  Lunch - Beans, Pork, Onion, and Manchego cheese. Dinner - Spaghetti, hamburger, and spaghetti Sauce.

I awakened at 6:00 and read mail until 7:20. The most interesting was a New Yorker article about the Democratic candidate for Senate from Alaska, Mary Peltola, who is a Upik Native and a Salmon fishing conservation advocate.  Over fishing has become the major issue in the Senate contest. There is a conflict between Pollack trawlers and Native people who traditionally rely on Salmon for their winter sustenance. The trawlers scour the bottom and catch other fish, such as salmon, other than Pollack in their huge nets, thus depleting the salmon populations ion by as much as 90%.

Then I toasted two slices of bagel and smeared them with cottage cheese and garnished with thin onion slices and the Leftover trout from several dinners ago and watched the market open.

Suzette started a pot of beans cooking with onion and carrots that I stirred and watched until 2:30 when they were ready.

At 10:30 I ate a plum and edited a pleading until 12:30, when I heated a bowl of beans, shredded pork, onion, and Manchego cheese slices and toasted a flour tortilla for lunch.

After lunch I worked on the motion until 2:30 when I checked the market and was surprised that my portfolio had a good day, increasing 1,166%.

I then drove to the bank and withdrew some of the money Sammy sent me and drove to Halflife and talked to Nikelle and David about our trip to France and earlier trips to Galicia Spain and picked up a rent check.

They are going to invite me and Suzette to a Scottish fiddler recital at their cottage.

I then drove to the transmission shop and delivered money for Scott’s truck’s transmission repair. I had a long conversation with Greg the owner about his family history. His father escaped from a Nazi concentration camp.  He is Jewish, with his father’s family from Germany and his mother’s from Russia. They met at Ellis Island in 1947 and married.

At 5:30 I drove home and drank a gin and tonic with lime juice while Suzette fried leftover spaghetti, ground beef, and spaghetti sauce for a perfect dinner for me.

We drank the last bits of wine in three open bottles with dinner.

We then watched the World Series and Finding your roots and went to bed at the end of the ninth inning without watching the game as it went into extra innings.

Bon Appetit

October 26, 2026 Breakfast - Two men on Islands. Lunch - Leftover Eggplant Parmesan and Spaghetti. Dinner - Crab Cakes with deep Fried Tofu, Mixed Stir Fried Vegetables and rice.

October 26, 2026 Breakfast - Two men on Islands. Lunch - Leftover Eggplant Parmesan and Spaghetti. Dinner - Crab Cakes with deep Fried Tofu, Mixed Stir Fried Vegetables and rice.

I woke up at 7:36. Suzette was already doing aerobics in the hot tub, as she does most mornings.

I was feeling poorly,so I made two Men on a raft and drank a cup of chai.

                 This was the best Man on an Island I have made in a long time 

Then I paid some taxes and my home insurance for next year.

Then I paid big event of the day was setting up my new HP printer that took three hours on the line with customer support.

Finally, I had a printer after ten days without one because HP sent me the printer for a different account. It took HP 8 or 9 days to straighten out the error.

By the time the printer was running and I completed the taxes and insurance, it was 12:30 and I was hungry.  

Lunch - I re-heated the leftover eggplant Parmesan and Spaghetti and sipped a glass of the open 2023 Kirkland Chianti Classico we drank with dinner last night.

I then watched the market close. With the filing by Anthropic of its S-1 to go public, the high tech sector turned positive and my portfolio increased by .75%. 

At 2:30 I drove to the post office and sent my passport for renewal to Philadelphia.

When I returned home at 3:15 I was tired and rested until 4:00 when I watched Ari and then more news with Suzette. 

Dinner - We had decided to cook crab cakes, which is one of Suzette’s favorite meals, much loved by all the members of her family in Pennsylvania and heated the leftover Deep Fried Tofu and Mixed Stir fried vegetables from my lunch several days ago at East Ocean.

Suzette makes her crab cakes with crushed saltine crackers, crab meat  and egg. They have a very crabby flavor. We divided the crab meat in half and she made five crab cakes tonight. We will make a crab soufflé in a couple of days.

While Suzette was making the crab cakes, tartare sauce, and a seasoning sauce of Mirin and hoisin sauce for the vegetables, I shredded the left over pork ribs that we will use to make either pork enchiladas or pork tacos tomorrow evening.

I fetched a chilled bottle of Kirkland Pinot Grigio from the garage and when the crab cakes were cooked and the vegetables and rice re- heated we each plated a crab cakes and several spoonfuls of vegetables and rice.

I opened and poured glasses of Pinot Grigio and we ate a lovely dinner.

After dinner Willy called as he was coming back to his car from a hike up e Sandias to watch the sunset and a family of deer.

We watched the Cowboys beat the Eagles and Milwaukee crush the Tampa Bay Rays 10 to 0 to win game three of the World Series, which may end tomorrow night, if Milwaukee wins game four.

Willy left after dinner and we went to bed at 9:30 after the games.

Bon Appetit

October 25, 2026 Breakfast - Almond Croissant. Lunch - Trout Salad. Dinner - Leftover Eggplant Parmesan and Spaghetti

October 25, 2026 Breakfast - Almond Croissant. Lunch - Trout Salad. Dinner - Leftover Eggplant Parmesan and Spaghetti

This was a rest day with an exciting purchase of art, and a perfect day of food.

I slept until 7:30, then I showered and dressed.

At 8:00 I started watching PL soccer and soon after i heated the regular croissant and almond croissant we bought from the Le quiche Bakery booth at the Farmers’ Market yesterday which we ate for breakfast.

Then I rested and watched Leeds v. Sunderland play to a 0 to 0 tie.

At 10:30 Suzette started following the on line Bradford auction of Western art. She had noticed works by artists we like, especially a landscape by Agnes Pelton and two landscapes but Carl Redin, perhaps Albuquerque’s best artist.

Here is the auction house’s description:

Carl Adolph Hjalmer Persson Redin (1892-1944) "Winter In Tijeras Canyon" Oil on Board. Known for his paintings of Southwest landscapes, Carl Redin was born in Sweden, near Stockholm. He came to America in 1913, after having tried to support his impoverished family in Sweden. He had an early interest in art, which he had studied in Stockholm about 1906. In 1916, he moved to New Mexico because he had tuberculosis and needed a drier climate than that of Chicago. For a year, 1929 to 1930, he taught at the University of New Mexico, and also opened a studio in Lubbock, Texas where he was a teacher in a summer session at Texas Technological College. He exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, and the Macbeth Gallery in New York City. Artist: Carl Redin Title: "Winter In Tijeras Canyon" Medium: Oil on Board Signature Type: Hand Signed | Signature Location: Lower Left | Site Measurement: 16" x 20" | Keywords: Southwestern, Western Artwork,

It got very exciting as the time that the auction closed for each piece neared in succeeding one minute intervals with five minute extensions if there were additional bids. The bidding on the Agnes Pelton went first. Suzette bid up to $4,000 but the high bid was about 45 minutes later at the end of multiple extensions at $9,900. There was also a 25% buyer’s premium and shipping costs from Sun City, Arizona.

I loved the Carl Redin “Winter in Tijeras Canyon” landscape and it seemed very inexpensive at $1450 in early bidding. We had been following the on line bids for the three works for several days. I put in several bids until the high bid reached $2000 and I entered the winning bid at $2050. I bought my first Carl Redin painting of Jemez Canyon for $7,500 from Owings Gallery years ago which seems much closer to the retail market value of a good Carl Redin painting. I paid $1800 for a Redin watercolor of the oldest street in Santa Fe that had a paint blemish in it at the Santa Fe auction several years ago, so I am thrilled that I have acquired another good Redin oil painting for around $2700, including premium and shipping. 

Suzette made trout salads around 1:00 with diced tomato, cucumber slices, slices of pickled egg, diced pickled beets, romaine lettuce, and a honey mustard dressing. The flavor of the smoked trout was elegantly subtle and each of the other ingredients’ unique flavors added flavor to each bite.  We drank the last of the Faustino Rivera Uclea Albariño with the salad.

The best game of the day was the Classico between Barcelona and Real Madrid, perhaps the two best soccer clubs in the world at 1:00. Most good teams have 1 or 2 strikers who shoot goals, but Real and Barcelona have five or 6 players who would be world class strikers on any other team. The ball was flying at the net from all directions but all except three shots were stopped. Mbpape scored two for Real to win 2 to 1. 

I watched NFL football after the match ended. Perhaps the most interesting game was Green Bay v. The Detroit Lions. The score was tied and Green Bay missed a field goal near the end which gave the lions the ball back with about one minute. The Lions moved the ball to about the 20 yard line and kicked a field goal to win the game with 1 second on the time clock.

At 5:30 we decided to cook the leftover Eggplant Parmesan and spaghetti dish that was undercook last night for an hour to completely cook the eggplant.

We cooked it while we watched the first episode of Miss Fisher Detective on PBS at 6:00.

I opened a bottle of Kirkland 2023 Chianti Classico and we ate a fabulous Italian dinner.

We then watched episodes of the English series of Professor T., and Maigret, the French police mystery and went to bed at 9:00, after the Seattle Seahawks beat the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs 20 to 3.

Bon Appetit