July 13, 2019 Brunch – BLT Sandwiches. Dinner – Chicken Salad Salad at Civic Plaza Concert

July  13, 2019 Brunch – BLT Sandwiches. Dinner – Chicken Salad Salad at Civic Plaza Concert

We got up at 7:30 and worked in the garden until almost 10:00 I was able to see the finish of a miraculous stage of the Tour.  One rider Peter De Gendt led the race all the way from the start to the finish.  I only saw the finish of this historic stage.  He won by 16 seconds.

We pulled weeds and cleaned areas of the gardening pulled the last garlic plants

Then we fried the last six slices of thick sliced bacon, sliced two tomatoes, toasted four slices of rye bread and smeared them with mayo, and tore three leaves of Romaine lettuce.

After brunch we lay down and then at 2:30 we cleaned the garlic.

We took showers at 4:00 and I chopped chicken, celery, Vidalia onion, and an apple.  Suzette mixed those ingredients with mayo and white wine vinegar.  Suzette sliced several tomatoes and shredded some lettuce to made a lovely salad to eat at the concert.  Suzette also cubed the remaining ½ canary melon in the fridge and boxed both in plastic boxes and organized a picnic dinner by pouring a bottle of Emma Riechard German rose’  (Trader Joe’s $4.99) into a thermos bottle.

At 6:15 we drove to Civic Plaza for the concert.    We sat at a table near the entrance to the Administrative Center that was elevated but had a distant view of the stage. We enjoyed our lovely chicken salad salad and melon cubes with the rose’.

We then moved to the fifth row on the center aisle for Marcia Ball’s set.

She was fabulous.  She sat at an electric piano facing the crowd with four musicians in her band, bass guitar, electric guitar, a saxophonist, and drummer.

We loved her barrel house boogie Woogie that ranged into rhythm and blues and zydeco.  Her voice is great. My favorite line from one of her songs was, “Take a little Louisiana with you every where you go.”

She played until after 9:30.  We loved the concert.

I must share a story and owe Marcia Ball an apology.   When I was a student at UT and living at College House in the 60’s in Austin there used to be liquor happy hours at College House on Friday’s from 5:00 to 7:00.  A group of rowdy drunks would often go to the Broken Spoke just south of the river on South Lamar.  We would often sit at the front table in front of the stage where Marcia Ball played the piano and keep drinking and yelling and carrying on until we were ejected.  We should have sat quietly and listened but we didn’t.  I don’t even remember if she sang in those days.  But she sings great these days.

Bon Appetit