Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Protection against ostriches?

 On vacation—practically unheard of! I’m at a B&B with bink in a river town a couple hours away, where I’ve never once been.

I was inspired by our room’s pale green and pink – –one of my favorite color combinations – – to make this Love’s eye for my art gallery—the fence by  work. It makes me laugh – – like Phyllis Diller meets the Eye of Sauron:

At work, Volunteer Art had hung another Japanese paper umbrella – – he does this whenever one gets donated – – I think there are six now. It’s the gorgeous square orange one:

 He and I both love when they’re tattered and you can see their inner architecture. BOOK’s feels like a magic umbrella forest. It’s the best section in the store.

Hm, I see Amina turned The DaVinci Code face-forward, which I would never do. We’re still getting that best seller donated, but I don’t think a copy ever sells. I should stop culling them and see how many copies we could collect.

Traveling has shown how ‘no-sugar’ is not the norm. Breakfast here is at 9, but there’s a self-serve Keurig coffee maker and cream—but the cream is “French vanilla “, which is like ice cream. And there was a complimentary bottle of local wine in our room, “semi-sweet” red—so syrupy, it could have been Mogen David. I drank a glass anyway and fell into a torpor…

However, even the drive-in we went to last night had two vegan options—black bean or walnut burgers.  That’s an interesting development. I had fish fry.