Saturday May 29, 2021

Good morning everyone, today is Saturday May 29, 2021. The weather folks I think will be a wash out for us here in the northeast, my only hope isn’t doesn’t rain all day. After all it is Memorial Day weekend hopefully Mother Nature will take some pity on us and award us with something nice this weekend, but I don’t know. The other night I made Aqua Pazza for dinner and when I posted it a friend replied she has made it with Bacala, this sounded great to me so I said I would try that because I love Bacala. I decided to buy some , so naturally the best Bacala can only be bought in the Ironbound so that is where I set out to go yesterday morning. I asked the man for it and he replied ‘Do you want half or the whole side’ I asked to see it , when I saw it it was about 4 ft long I said can’t I buy Hal fof a half he smiled and said no. So I bought the half, now I have about 20 pieces of fish. But he assured me after it soaked you could freeze some. So be prepared for some recipes to come out of this. Now how could I be there without buying Chorizo and Linguisa so I bought that too. Great on the grill. Now off to the bakery, I had to make my trip worthwhile, so I bought bread, rolls Portuguese cookies. I was introduced to these cookies many years ago by a parent who baked them for me as a Christmas present, never had a cookie that good. I have secretly named her the best baker in Newark. I bought my Galon for the trip home. As I explained to Marylou the coffee was worth the whole trip. On the way home I decided what to make for dinner, now no holiday is complete without sausage and peppers so that’s what I made only instead of Italian Sausage, I used Linguisa and Chorizo, a whole different flavor delicious with Spanish Potatoes they also came out great. So I integrated 3 cultures together to make a great meal, and that is the picture posted. See everything can get along and sometimes change is good.

Amanda recieved a letter on Rocco’s behalf informing him about kindergarten and a meeting they will be having with the parents. It seems like a wonderful school. When I bought this house that school was actually one of the selling features , you know what I mean you are in this particular school nieghborhood. However, both Amanda and Justin were out of elementary school when we moved here so it really made no difference. Now Rocco will take advantage of something I worked my whole life for. Now she left the letter on the table so I picked it up to read it , when I got to the last paragraph there it was. They are happy and looking forward to welcoming the Class of 2034. Immediately I welled up, where has all this time gone, I don’t feel that much older. I also remembered this same letter welcoming Justin as the Class of 2000. I guess life just goes on and we really never realize time is going with it. Back in the day when I used to ask myself how old will I be in 2000 or how old will I be in 2015, I never dreamed I would be asking how old will I be in 2034. I will be 81, I guess I will be an old man at the party for his graduation. But age is only a number, and I refuse to let the old man into my life so I won’t be an old man, because frankly I don’t believe in it, the closing line of one of my favorite plays MAME, when MAME is taking her young nephew off to India to experience life, the hell with school , life is more important. Her niece asks , exactly how old is she, the response is who knows She’s the Pied Piper. Hopefully someday I could recieve the same compliment.

Well there is no sun shinning through the window this morning but it is brighter so I know my time is up, imagine if it stayed dark you would be stuck with me all day LOL. I wouldn’t mind , I enjoy this time of day talking to you immensely. But no such luck we all have lives to get to , so I don’t know what the day looks like yet so it might be a little harder to find our joy today but we have to. So I will see you tomorrow have a great day. Til Tomorrow!