Along with some roasted potatoes.
Drinking a nice garnacha.
All is good.

Been a long week. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Time for a or two. Or three...

and now I'm watching Olympics

A clean, crisp Chardonnay pairs well with a winter setting.

Do you have a favorite?

We had broiled ahi tuna steaks for dinner

But I find I can't go wrong with German Rhein wines.

Definitely with some baklava!

with chicken, ham, lettuce, tomatos, olives, sunflower seeds, blue cheese, grapes, raspberries and blackberries topped with an Italian dressing.

Drinking and combusting will be observed afterwards.

I started feeling full just reading that...

Up next: chocolate baklava for dessert.

Garnished with some pistachio nuts, too.

I love hot chocolate!

Especially with a generous dollop of Irish Cream...

and good ol' hot chocolate sounded a bit pedestrian. But what the heck, I love it!

We can be small 'd' democratic, too. Sometimes the simplest pleasures are the best.

I love how you think! Cheers!

Cheers back at you... : toast:

Made some chicken tacos for dinner. Listening to some tunes. Nice day out here, makes me anxious for spring, but got a long ways to go before that's here.

Peace

beautiful day. Ate and drank at a couple of our happy places. Some wine, some weed, some Olympics....some reading, then bed. All good. Except for the shitface in the White House of course....

Love that stuff.

Too bad I can't share it with you.

But it's the thought that counts...

had 4 oyster shooters and then a half dozen pan-fried. Lovely spouse had a seafood stew.

Oh, yeah, I also had a matched pair of pints of Elysian's Space Dust IPA.

Back up north again tomorrow morning to the Skagit Valley Gardens nursery for the last day of our (Mount Baker Orchid Society) show and sale.

Spending the rest of the evening doing some photo work and relaxing. Might go out to the garage a little later andget a pint or two from a keg of homebrew. Right now we have a Swarzbier, light porter (was supposed to be a porter, but had the wrong malt grain mix), and a chocolate/sour cherry stout.

Ezz spossy ezz you like! Gonna make yo' stoomach sit up 'n' smile, Ah gar-onn-tee!

her adopted town of Bozeman, MT.

Great energy here. Blue dot, college town, skied all day at the local nonprofit awesome ski area. Cold smoke!! Dinner on the town at one the excellent restaurants here. Life is good.

Wonder what ever happened to him...

Jon Tester

And good Dem Governor Steve Bullock.

Then Repub Sen Steve Daines, and “put-‘em-up” Rep Greg Gianforte, voted in to fill in for Ryan Imperialist Zinke, Sec of interior and quite full of himself in rump’s cabinet.

Good, mostly Asian food at opera cast party early. Plenty to drink. Then watched my UNC Tar Heels win in basketball in a very workman-like way. Things are good.

I'm a huge opera aficionado. Seasons tickets to Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera, Pacific Opera in Victoria, B.C.

Performances are next weekend. I support the Knoxville Opera and the N.C. Opera.

Still waiting to see Turandot live.

...and that's not a bad substitute for being in heaven. You know--a species that can produce both a Shakespeare, and a Verdi, just might have something to be said for it despite everything...

Verdi moved Shakespeare quite ably to the operatic stage.

Benjamin Britten, not so much...

...while Britten is merely a composer of genius...

I made a vegetarian kale soup tonight w/ a tomato base, red & white beans, onions, garlic, herbs, baby pasta shells. It's quite good for this cold snowy night.

Lightly-fried chicken breast, stuffed with spinach, cheese, and spices. Great stuff...

Yum!