Shiny Woman and Hero Woman just left after a good evening of dinner and talk. I’d spent an hour or so in the afternoon putting up a ceiling fan in M’s room, which turned into a wrestling match, so my plan of a simple dinner (sautéed chicken breasts in a sour-cream/cherry sauce, with rice and a green salad) sounded even better than it had when I first thought of it. Everything turned out well and wasn’t much leftovers at all. Hero Woman and M made silly faces and giggled (well, M giggled) through half of dinner and the visiting after, while the conversation went on unabated. Shiny Woman went home with a book borrowed from L, a fascinating history of the theatrical productions of The Wizard of Oz that came before the MGM musical. As L observed, once you read this book, a number of things in the movie that weren’t in the book become clear; they’re legacies of the stage shows and contemporary (1939) audiences would have expected and understood them.
This morning, TerribleLynne treated me to breakfast. I decided we ought to go do a very Old Austin thing: have breakfast at Cisco’s. TerribleLynne was delighted with the funky retro ’70s decor, and the food was still good Mexican breakfast as it’s been getting on for sixty years now. (If you’ve lived in Austin more than six months and you’ve never been to breakfast or lunch at Cisco’s, why the hell haven’t you?? Go do it NOW!!)
Hero Woman is coming over Tuesday for a Movie Night. I haven’t a clue what we’ll watch. We’ll figure something out.
You will massage a toner cartridge with the unmitigated pork pie. Fnord.
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