Bruce and I were in Seattle until Christmas Eve, so that Bruce could get his thumb operated on. Too much arthritis pain and not enough mobility made him want to get it fixed. So, off we went to the hand surgeon at Harborview Hospital in downtown Seattle, Washington.
Before surgery we had lunch with my long time friend Dorothy. Dorothy has lived in Seattle --the city-- for over 60 years!
The "now thing" is a T.V. tray; it's a sophisticated version of the 60s style frozen deal-meal.
The Art restaraunt at the Four Seasons Hotel on First Ave offers this unique lunch meal...all four courses on one plate. Fries, chocolate tart, clam chowder topped with truffle oil, and sauteed black cod atop a bed of braised greens.
Sher and Dorothy
Look closely...taken from inside the hotel room on floor 27--you get an artsy view of both Bruce resting-post surgery and downtown Seattle and I-5 freeway. Don't ask me how I did this!
The morning after Bruce's surgery we arose at 4 a.m., and we took the jet to Ketchikan.
We've been home ten minutes.
You can see Ouzel has retrieved Bruce's cast and Skookum has found one of his gift!
Resting with Ouzel.
More resting with Ouzel.
Bruce's cast became too tight, and here you see brother John making a new cast for Bruce.
December 27 --Professor Skookum riding in the boat with the Schwartz family to Naha...
John, Kathy, Bruce, Sher, David, and Brittan Schwartz hiked in with three bags of beef stew, raspberry cheesecake brownies, the stove, ten logs of firewood, tea, and celebratory drinks.
We reach the shelter.
...enjoying the warmth of the fire after eating Bruce's terrific beef stew. He made it before we left for Seattle, and we froze it .
My niece Brittan and John, Bruce's brother...standing on the point near the shelter.
Professor Skookum riding
home just after we stopped to watch several humpback whales feeding....
Happy New
Year everyone!
Sher
Sher and Dorothy
Hi Sher
ReplyDeleteThese photos are wonderful and I really enjoyed looking at them all - they give a great sense of your daily life! I love the idea of a winter 'picnic' (I know not quite like that) and am hoping you might send the recipe for the beef stew so that we can try that over here too.
Tried for a long time to sign up as a follower but site is not allowing me to do this, even though I was going through googlemail rather than twitter this time - so will look out for your alerts instead.
Loads more snow here - Cuba will be a real contrast!
Joanna
Someone else said the same... Maybe I have the following option turned off..? I will look. Sher
ReplyDeleteLoved the pics, where you love its so DIFFERENT to where I live!
ReplyDelete& wish I could have shared that meal with you & Dorothy - food looked divine! I so enjoyed meeting her when I visited Seattle.
Pls keep me posted - would love to see more pics & read more
Alison