Last Saturday, Amanda wanted to eat brunch outside the house, so we headed out to Geraldine’s Counter. As usual, there were scads of people around, but the service was very good which is not usual. They definitely are set up to handle the weekend crowds, as opposed to how erratic they are at other times.
We ran into our old real estate agent Jim. He and his partner were taking advantage of the pleasant weather to renovate a house they recently acquired for rental income. We had parked right outside their house, but we had not realized they were the guys stripping siding off the place. It was cool to see him, and he bought our brunch for us! What a great guy. I heartily recommend him to anyone buying or selling real estate in Seattle.
Back home, we did a lot of gardening. I picked most of the green tomatoes and then pulled up all the plants and did a lot of weeding and thinning of the kale. I put all the organic debris in the back of the plot and covered the pile up with burlap.
We also picked a bunch of carrots to make room for garlicks and shallots which we then planted.
At the “kids” plot we finally picked all the pumpkins and put them on the picnic tables for whomever wanted them. We did take some back home with us that had been reserved for various people. I ran into Kelly B. and she came by for a couple for her and Bill.
On Sunday, we had brunch with at Portage Bay Cafe with Eve, Karl, Casey, and Jeff (?), one of Eve’s former coworkers in Auburn. The food was much better than the one other time I had been there, but the ambiance was much worse because we were their “overflow room” which was basically like a conference room in a hotel. A cheap one.
Regardless, brunch was fun. We tried to go to Weaving Works on the way back home, but they were not open yet, and we did not want to kill time in the University District elsewhere. So we went home and did…. um, I don’t know.
We eventually went back up north to another knitting place: Acorn Street Shop. We got a lot of yarn for garments for the future progeny and stuff for a “kitty pi” for our current little one.
Actually, I now remember Amanda went grocery shopping with Mandy after brunch.