For your fifty-first birthday, may we suggest that you reenact the Battle of Antietam, and march your daughters along Bloody Lane Trail until things get literal? May we suggest a late lunch in Frederick, another Civil War town, another cemetery town, also a college town and a church-spire town? How about a kitten left on the porch for you to find later? May we suggest you name the kitten after Vice-Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen, charter of Great Lakes, explorer of African coasts? We frequently recommend, and wonder how you'd feel about: a boozey espresso gâteau de crêpes with chocolate ganache, homemade, improvised, because your daughter meant to make a chiffon cake but the eggs just wouldn't beat, no matter what she did? May we suggest you eat the cake cold the next morning, when it will probably taste better, because it is still as hot outside it was on the battlefield yesterday? May we suggest you bring some water next time? Some gauze?
are you telling me i missed a summer of carpenter musings because i was subscribed to the wrong blog?! shame, shame.
ReplyDeleteGolly, Joe, we're just delighted to have you with us now, if it helps.
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