August 28, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Earl Grey tea. Lunch - Cobb Salad at Harry’s Roadhouse and Book Club. Tea at Amy and Vahl’s Dinner - Leftover Japanese Oyster stew with Vietnamese rice vermicelli noodles

August 28, 2025 Breakfast - Chocolate Croissant and Earl Grey tea. Lunch - Cobb Salad at Harry’s Roadhouse and Book Club. Tea at Amy and Vahl’s Dinner - Leftover Japanese Oyster stew with Vietnamese rice vermicelli noodles 

I woke for an hour during the night but slept 6:00 to 7:30 so got a good night’s sleep because we went to bed at 9:00.

I needed two issues to resolve themselves, certification of ownership of all the units in an LLC for a title company and an extension of the deadline in a litigation.

Miraculously both issues resolved themselves by 10:15 and I was able to drive to Santa Fe for book club. Since book club was at Eldorado, I called Amy and she told me there was going to be a group for tea at 3:00 or 4:00 and invited me to join them. I grabbed a bottle of wine and set cruise control on 80 and arrived at Harry’s Roadhouse at 11:47, only 17 minutes late. There were seven of us. The other six had ordered when I arrived and ordered a Cobb salad, but I was served when their food was served several minutes later. I loved the Cobb salad, made in the most traditional manner, diced turkey, crumbled blue cheese, avocado slices, diced tomato and cucumber and chopped fried bacon on a bed of chopped romaine served with a blue cheese dressing. Karl ordered tacos and Travis ordered a tuna sandwich.

After lunch I dropped my bottle of 2014 Red Newt Bullhorn Riesling at Amy’s to have it chilled by tea time and drove to book club. We discussed Twist by Cullum McCann, with its plot twist at the end.

After book club I returned to Amy and Vahl’s and talked to Laura and Ari and Johnnie until 6:00. Andy is Doing really well. There was a cheese board, Rick and Mary brought a delicious orange cake and there were cheese sticks and foccacia.

Vahl opened and served the Red Newt.

I drove at 6:00, arriving at 7:15.

Suzette had made a mackerel omelet for dinner.

I heated some of the oyster stew with lots of oysters and added water, a diced shiitake mushroom, red cabbage strips and sliced leek and some wood ear.

It was delicious and I ate both bowls I heated.

We watched a 1974 movie on Netflix titled Penguin Lessons that is based on a true story about a professor at a b boy’s private school befriended a penguin. It was funny and sad and engaging.

We went to bed at 10:00.

Bon Appetit