Sunday, December 5, 2021
Weight training: leg lift, side-lying inner leg lift. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, blueberries. Prep for lunch guests: cleaning, including wiping extra chairs. Patrick cooked all morning. Drinks: New Orleans decaf iced coffee and chicory; bourbon-spiked orange-mint sweet tea. Appetizers: pretzel sticks, spicy pecans. The meal: red beans with tasso and andouille over bay leaf boiled rice; buttermilk-baked spiced chicken drumsticks; heirloom tomato amd vidalia onion salad; French bread; bourbon butter cake. In attendance: Romy, Drew, Phil, quantum13, and Tadija. Afterwards Patrick and I cleaned and restored the dining table to its original position. Later we played games on Apple TV. Patrick beat me at Family Trivia. We played Jenny LeClue for a few minutes before deleting it—too much for kids rather than adults. Dinner: leftover white bean and kale soup, water. We watched standup comedy on YouTube. To bed for both of us (early for me).