St. Louis

St. Louis is so green, and not so hot and muggy this time of year. I am enjoying the relative humidity and green leafyness of it all. Iris are out in full bloom...mine are barely up at home.

My father has a "new" house--that is, it's been built for 2 years but he has only lived in it since January. I hadn't seen it before, but it is directly behind the monster house he had before. The new one is more beautiful and better laid out--not so overwhelmingly large. The old one had a great room which practically echoed; this one has the same idea but on a much smaller scale.

So far, a very cultural weekend. Fantastic symphony (St Louis Symphony Orchestra doing Beethoven's 9th), the Met's HD feed of La Cenerentola (otherwise known as Cinderella) and two art museums. St Louis Art Museum had a Ming Dynasty show; St Louis University Art Museum had a show of artwork from the Tsars of Russia and a show about Marcel Duchamp and his interest in chess. Apparently he was big into chess, and the world tournament for chess is in St. L this week.

We've also done quite a lot of cooking. I did most of the baking, fun fun. I learned to make konifa, a traditional Egyptian dessert, and made goreeba, one of my all time favorite cookies. They spread a bit more than they should of, but otherwise are perfect. The konifa turned out to die for. I will have to make that at home.

Hoping to see SB, my oldest friend in the world, this week. I haven't seen her or talked to her much in a long time. Our paths have gone very different directions. She is an orthodox Jew, which is not particularly an issue, but has changed her life quite a bit. Anyway, for whatever reason, we don't keep in close touch, but I do love to see her.

On another note, why does my space bar make a squeaky noise? This is a new computer.

So I added my blog feed to FB. Maybe that will force me to keep up with it a little more.