Another Sunday With Nothing We Have To Do!

7:05, A Touch of Pink

Up at 7:00 to a mostly gray sky, a gash of pink off over Long Point, 36 degrees, with the possibility of either rain or wet snow this morning.  I turned on NPR and listened to two interviews on Fresh Air, the first with Matt Weiner, creator of Mad Men, then Rachel Maddow, from MSNBC.  Weiner was really interesting, as he talked about last week's episode, the relationship between Don and Megan though he gave no hint as to where their relationship would go.  I did learn that he has signed on for two more seasons, so we have 12 more episodes this year, then 26 over the next two years.  He also mentioned that the creepy little kid, Glenn, who spied on Betty in the bathroom is actually his son. It is interesting to hear him talk about what he had in mind as he wrote a scene, how it doesn't necessarily parallel the viewers point of view but we can see where he was going.   He seems most excited about all the viewers speculations about where the series is going, a sure indication of the success of the show.  Right now on Mad Men, it's June, 1966, and last year ended in 1965.  Things are changing, in the US at this time, and also on the series.  Clothes, culture, business as well as society, are all changing before our eyes.  And Megan, Don's new wife,  is certainly a different sort of person and wife from Betty, as we could see from her sexy French song at his birthday party and the scene where she cleans the carpet in her underwear in front of Don, tantalizing as well as punishing him (according to Weiner), typical of the sexual games that couples play.  Listening to him made me like last week's two hour beginning more.

Tas Kebab, A Turkish Stew

Yesterday seems like a lost day, other than yoga and a workout for Evie at the Y, a cup of coffee at Ryder's Cup, then home, to make cookies and Tas Kebab for Evie, to sit around and do nothing for me.  Where does time go, what did I do?  Now I remember, the Foxes, our neighbors, stopped over for a beer around 4:30.  They are up just for the weekend.  They love it here at the lake as much as us and reluctantly leave on Sunday, just like we used to.  They are planning a trip to Alaska in June which sounds adventurous, flying there, renting a RV and then traveling for ten days.

Salted Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

We had a great dinner, just what I wanted, tas kebab on mashed potatoes, with brussel sprouts and a salad, with cookies for dessert.  We both watched the NCAA semifinals, with Kentucky and Kansas the winners.  The Kentucky/Louisville game was by far the better of the two, as both teams played hard and well.  In the second game, I felt Ohio State threw the game away by there poor play, lack of offense, and confidence but you have to give Kansas credit for coming back from a huge first half deficit.  I predict an easy victory for Kentucky; Kansas is just not that good, nor was Ohio State or Louisville, at least compared to Kentucky's talent.  I almost feel sorry for Kansas but will probably eat my words Tuesday morning, as anything can happen and any team can win ONE game.  If Kansas were to win, it would be like Villanova beating Georgetown in the 1980's, when Villanova shot something 75% from the field to win the championship.

Today we will walk the CI, our usual Sunday walk, and Evie's making pizza today as she experiments once again with pizza dough.  We are trying to find the perfect thin pizza dough, a never ending quest.  It would be so nice to find the perfect dough, make four or five pizza shells, freeze them,  pull them out whenever we felt like eating pizza for dinner.