Eating with Bob and Suzette

July 20, 2019 Lunch – Steak Salad. Dinner – Pete’s Café in Belen

Happy Moon Landing Day +50 and Happy 80th BD for Judy Chicago

I watched the Tour this morning as I nibbled on two 1/3 slices of regular bagel smeared with cream cheese and garnished with thin slices of onion and bits of smoked whitefish. Pinot beat everyone to the observatory at the top of Tourmalet, a distance of over 10 miles and a vertical climb of over almost 1 ½ miles (like racing up approximately 1 ½ Grand Canyons) at the end of a 73 mile day of racing over smaller mountains. At about one mile to go the top a Frenchman Pinot took off and only the yellow jersey could stay with him. Pinot won and Allaphillipe was second six seconds behind. Last year’s winner and favorite to win this year Geraint Thomas, faltered and lost 25 seconds, so is now 2.02minures behind Allaphillipe. The French are going wild because Allaphillipe won the individual time trial the day before in Pau to gain 14 seconds on Thomas and gained 25seconds more today. Allaphillipe would be the first Frenchman to win the Tour since 1985 if he wins this year.

I then walked to the country club and then to Kit Carson Park and then back home for my longest walk of the year. My own little Tourmalet.

At noon Suzette returned home and she ate the PPI Vinaigrette salads and cleaned the lettuce from her garden in Los Lunas and I made a salad with the PPI steak, the lettuce, a cubed tomato, a Persian cucumber, a slice of dill pickle and several cracked green olives. Suzette made a balsamic dressing for both of our salads by mixing balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

After lunch we rested until 3:30. We then dressed and drove to Belen and met George and Sylvia at Pete’s Café at 4:45. It was rather funny that we also studied the menu and all ordered a chile Relleno with a small salad. I added a beef enchilada to my plate that I shared with Suzette.

After our dinner we walked past the museum and the Belen Hotel that is now where Judy and Donald live to the library where a projector and chairs were set in a meeting room and watched a Netflix documentary on Feminists based upon a photography book by Cynthia Macadams: Feminist Photos 1974-1977 and the gallery exhibition in 2010 at the Steven Kasher Gallery of some of the photos.

Macadams photo of Judy in 1977

Judy Chicago was featured prominently in the documentary, since she was the first professor of feminist art in the U.S. at Fresno State College in 1970 and later at California Institute of Arts in L.A.

She was raised Jewish, like Bob Dylan, and changed he name, like Dylan, to Chicago, but for a different reason. In her case from her married name of Gerowitz, after the sudden death of her husband in a car accident, to abandon any connection with a male dominated society.

After the movie we walked back to the front of the Hotel where about ten rows of smoke bombs were
linked together. Judy came out of the hotel at around 8:00 and when she judged the light to be just
right a lady little ten rows of smoke bombs they were different colors of smoke and were quite beautiful as they filled the evening sky with torrents of colored smoke. As the smoke subsided we could see the sun setting through the smoke over El Morro Peak in the West.

Here are some photos.