Blogging tough

So we just bid our guests good night after hosting a dinner party for six. I did everything from scratch – cream of broccolini soup (in demitasse), heirloom tomato slice with flake salt, burrata, basil and raw onion, and slow-cooked lamb stew (modeled on Balthazar’s famed bar dish) – well, OK the canapé dip was store bought.

I also walked two miles this morning, picked up pictures from the framer and measured and installed hardware for a newly-framed instance of Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico. With Linda, I did most of the dishes, pots and pans, just leaving the stemware for the morning. We’re a bit tired, but exercise really helps with stamina, in my opinion, so we are not just blowing off the blog this evening. Rather, we’re describing how it is we’re not blowing off the blog this evening…