June 30, 2025 Breakfast - Fried Salami and Eggs with Toast. Lunch - Costco Hot dog. Dinner - Grilled Lamb Chops with Tzatziki and Tomato and Zucchini Couscous

June 30, 2025 Breakfast - Fried Salami and Eggs with Toast. Lunch - Costco Hot dog. Dinner - Grilled Lamb Chops with Tzatziki and Tomato and Zucchini Couscous

Today was a wonderful day no agenda and lots od activity and good food along the way.

I woke up at 7:15 and watched the Market open down a vit but miraculously it came back by the end of the day to produce a .04% gain. The market is turning toward negative after an amazing five or six day runthat has gotten my portfolio within 2.3% of its all time high after taking enough out of the portfolio to fund my investment in Multilayer that makes it equal my all time high and after taking an additional 7% out to fund the loan to Earn. In other words I am at an all time high. 

At 9:30 after dressing I made breakfast I wanted something sustaining, so I fried four slices of salami and two eggs and toasted three slices of baguette that I buttered and spread with French Bonne Mamman four fruit preserves and I made a cup of hot chocolate. It was a very French and very filling breakfast which was lucky because I did not eat lunch until 1:50.

At 10:30 I drove to Shahin’s office and waited an hour for him. Then we started preparing my tax return and discovered Willy’s tax info was inaccessibility locked in a Zip drive and I was missing one of my 1099s.

Mr. Had I came at 12:30 and we discussed his case and when he left a Shahin made a two hour appointment for me on Wednesday July 2.

Tax prep for Shahin and me is a long distant marathon as is the six months of billings that still need to be prepared. I sometimes think that for people raised in ancient cultures like Persians and Afghanis like Shahin and Mr. Hadi that time takes on a perspective that exceeds periods greater than simply Manana.

At 1:40 I drove to Costco to eat a hot dog for lunch. Today was great because there were containers of chopped onion so I relished my hot dog with mustard, catsup, onions and sweet pickle relish with a Pepsi cola.

At 2:30 I drove to Hunter Lumber and bought 20 gallons of red label Penofin to coat and seal the wood shakes on the roofs of the house and garage. Repairing the roofs is a recurring event every five or six years. But I love my wooden house and cedar shake roof.

I then drove to Central Trailer Supply and picked up the 2024 tax returns for Sharp Properties and then drove to Old Republic Title to deliver them to the escrow Secretary. I spent about a hour discussing title issues with the young in house underwriting attorney and escrow secretary.

When I returned home it was 4:30. I sent my June 27 memo to the underwriting attorney with copies of the relevant documents and then checked my day’s portfolio performance and was pleased with the small gain of .04%.

At 5:30 I joined Suzette in the kitchen. 

Dinner - We decided to cook the fresh lamb chops I bought at Costco several days ago. We also decided to cook tomato, zucchini, and shallot couscous and make a tzatziki sauce. 

I sliced and sautéed a sliced zucchini, shallot, and tomato and 1 cup of  couscous and boiled water in the kettle  added 1 1/2 cups of water to make the couscous. The secret to making good couscous is to cook it on low temp and develop steam to steam it for four or five minutes which requires adjusting the heat from high to low to off.

For the tzatziki sauce I peeled, seeded, sliced  and salted 1/2 cucumber and minced two cloves of garlic and 1/2 cup of fresh mint from our garden and added 1 cup of plain yogurt and juice of 1/2 lemon juice.

While I was making couscous and tzatziki Suzette grilled the nine or ten small lamb chops.

Then I opened a bottle of Cotes Du Rhone and we ate a really good meal.

After dinner we ate milk chocolate and sipped Maison Serene cognac and watched and slept through two episodes of Who is feeding Phil and Suzette went to bed at 10:30 and I stayed up to blog.

Bon Appetit