Mary has helped me with dinner both last night and tonight. She works the cooktop and makes sure the meat (Sat) and fish (Sun) are properly cooked. I do the veggie and starch. I mean, how hard is it to pull Lunardi's potato salad out of the frig? Tonight was fresh corn, string beans and Petrale Sole--all from Los Gatos Farmers' Market this morning. Good!
Comcast has still been unsuccessful in fixing our modem. Two and one-half hours on-line yesterday and a three hour visit today (Sunday) with a technician at our house--and still no internet service. TV is working fine on HD and no channels at all on standard TV. They did a modem swap (mine for theirs) and theirs wouldn't work either (identical Motorola modems). Nice. We are in Verizon's land line territory and they cannot provide their higher speed DSL services to our home. We're stuck.
It was time for me to get my haircut today. I go to a very nice Vietnamese lady who has been cutting my hair for ten years or so. Her parents left Vietnam when the communists took over and she was a teenager. There are a million stories about her, Than Mi (Tammy). Today, however, was much simpler. She has a flood of Asian pears and yellow peaches--it is late August in the Valley of Hearts Delight (renamed Silicon Valley over the past few decades). Each customer was to eat a peach and a pear upon arrival and then take one or two away when done. Talk about your fruit festival! Reenie happened to call on my drive home and she admitted that in Minnesota this time of year, the bountiful harvest is zucchini. And, you often get a knock on the door or a ring of the bell. When you get there, there is no one present but you find a large delivery of zucchini on your front step. I prefer the peaches and Asian pears.
That is all for now.
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