Debbie Bloom and her son Josh (a senior at Buffalo State U.) had driven from Rochester to attend a family event on Long Island and stopped here on the way (well, actually, a bit past the way) Friday afternoon. Josh and Debbie are both very sweet people, lovely to be with.
Debbie's daughter Rebecca after graduating from college a couple of years ago went into the used book business. Her need for lots of books meshes very well with my wish to empty my shelves. After Debbie, Josh, and Merwin packed up quite a few, about 1 and 1/2 long shelves were empty. Their van was full, and they could take no more. At this rate it will take quite a while to empty all the shelves. Rebecca may come herself some time to pick up other books. Most of these were novels and poetry. The technical books on literature should go to a college library if any would want them. Probably not. It's more fuss for them to accept used books than just get new ones.
Anyway, I held up pretty well, though talking is a bit fatiguing, on top of the ordinary fatigue. After they left for their festivities, we went out for a snack for dinner, and then off to bed, as usual by 8 p.m.
It was a 5-shirt night, very wet. I do the changes almost automatically, as I may already have mentioned, hardly ever have to turn on the lights.
Today I went food shopping with Merwin (hooray, an outing!) and then made a recipe from the NYT on our return home. It's called "Sauteed wild Salmon with Brown Butter Cucumbers." I would copy it here, but I am not sure that it is legal to post someone else's recipe: is it? Anyway it took about 10 minutes to make and was quite good. I used wild arctic char, which is a little cheaper than wild salmon and tastes similar.If you do make this, use about 3 x as much fresh dill as called for.
Somehow, the energy flows in when I think of doing something new. That's a good thing.
More tomorrow.
Love to all,
Bernice
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