A quiet week for us, which is nice to have now and then. Thanks to video calls we were able to chat with our friends in Paris, and with our Japanese daughter in Tokyo, who has two adorable little ones. For Sunday Lunch Tricia made mushroom tartlets for out entrée, I made a goat cheese…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – sketching light and fast
Two of the challenges of travelsketching are packing light and traveling with others. Often I see folks show what they are packing for a vacation and it strikes me that they carry a lot more than I do. I don’t take much of anything that “I just might need.” Experience tells me that those things…
This week – not in The Pearl – January 8, 2025
Writing this from our deck in San José del Cabo, the quieter village 40 minutes east of the party city. Quiet is relative, but such is life, at least not much in the way of late night revelry here. The highlight of the weekend, before we left for Mexico, was Saturday when we met up…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Travel on my mind
We had a wonderful holiday month, starting with seven of us at our small place for Thanksgiving. Then a few other times when people came over, then seven again here for Christmas Day. Then we had eight people on Friday when Tricia’s sister and family visited for the weekend from Seattle. In between our hosting…
This week in The Pearl – actually La Conner
We did spend the weekend in The Pearl. The cold weather made the warmth of the Mediterranean sound so inviting. For Sunday lunch I took inspiration from the roulade I did for Thanksgiving. We had a lone chicken breast in the freezer so I used gruyere, and spinach for a filling and did another roulade…
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