Eating, People

So on Monday we walked down to Berkeley Bowl. Wow, the food is so awesome! It is cheap and great. Some more amazing raspberries, these for 99 cents a basket. We also got some great Brussels sprouts -- a huge stalk for $1.69. Four of us couldn't eat half of the sprouts today. Not only do they have our animal-friendly milk at dollar-cheaper-than-whole-foods prices, they also have animal friendly butter, butter milk, chocolate milk, and probably everything else. 8 types of bananas.

I sanded the furniture and Alison primed it and started painting it. See picture.

Last week Alison's parents realized they could come see us this week and then they would be working, so they arrived last night, using their inside connections with United Airlines to come over on first class. This morning we went out to La Farine to get croissants and a loaf of
wheat-walnut bread. Wow, that place is so good. The only other French pastries I've had as good were at Boule in LA and Tartine in SF (or the city, as they say here).

Today they helped us get the house in order. The old lacquer on the dresser was showing through a coat of primer and two coats of paint. We were getting rather discouraged -- especially Alison, who did the painting. Fred found a more serious primer and painted that for us. Tomorrow we'll have the dresser and CD storage done and we can put away the rest of our stuff still in boxes.

We made a great lunch with braised Brussels sprouts, wheat-walnut bread, cheese and sliced apples. For dinner we went to the Berkeley classic, Cheeseboard pizza co-op.

Yeah, so things are coming together and we'll now have some time to really just hang out and enjoy ourselves with Fred and Marilyn.