Studio recital

I have two studio recitals taking place next Saturday 19 June. Many of my voice students will sing on the first one, and then 90 minutes later we have two seniors in their final recital. Thanks to Owen a few weeks ago, I figured out how to rig a home self-tape set-up. Students will stand

Pop

Today would be my father’s 86th birthday anniversary. He has been gone 3 1/2 years.

Recipe for a salad

To make this condiment your poet begsThe pounded yellow of two hard boiled eggs;Two boiled potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve,Smoothness and softness to the salad give;Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,And, half suspected, animate the whole;Of mordant mustard add a single spoon,Distrust the condiment that bites so soon;But deem it not, thou man of

Thirty years ago

After filling up the tank on the car yesterday, I drove through Blue Springs. Here is the first house I ever purchased, and the church in which I converted to the Episcopalian brand of Christianity.

Hometown

I made a very brief visit yesterday to my hometown of Lee’s Summit. I have not seen my sister Karen nor any of Beth’s family since Christmas 2019. And the last time I saw Beth was just before Christmas 2020. First stop was the cemetery, and then my sisters and their spouses and Beth‘s two

Limoncello

And that, friends and neighbors, is the beginning of this year’s limoncello.

Nelson

Nelson the Terrier, June 2021. In the garden at our home.

Recent food adventures

In the kitchen . . . The mother of all grilled ham & cheese sandwiches, with may and mustard and three kinds of cheese, on homemade peasant bread.

#TBT: France

14 years ago this week…

In the garden

Some Memorial Day photos in the garden.