Soul Mates
Wendy-Jean
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After a weekend of salty sea air and sumptuous seafood, we are refreshed and ready for anything that may come our way.
Wednesday, Flo will be discharged from Rivercrest and Diane will move her ( I’m in charge of the TV) back to Concord Park. We expect a rousing welcome from staff and residents.
Our friends’ house on the Cape had cable TV and we watched two new releases, both of which I recommend: The Fugitive and The Bourne Identity.
Diane’s best meal? Raw Oysters on the half shell with crab cakes and a glass of Rosemount Estate. Mine? Scallops sautÈed with capers.
You’ll be happy to know that I talked to only one person, Richard, the owner of one of Chatham’s oldest and most respected galleries. With a kelly green cable-knit sweater over a blue pin stripped shirt, weejans, and black rimmed reading glasses far down his nose, I thought, here is someone with whom I have nothing in common. Until he misunderstood one of my comments.
“That’s a good price for the Falconer painting!†At fourteen g’s, I meant, don’t be ridiculous. But he heard it as it reads. On our way out, I said, “I hate the traffic now and it isn’t even the summer.†He replied,
“This is a town of five thousand which grows to thirty thousand in July. When the crowds descend, I take my two most expensive paintings and put them in the window. That keeps the “I Am With Stupid†T-shirt crowd from coming in and dripping their ice cream all over my art.â€
Boy that water looks almost swimmable — was it? Didn’t think so. Not even for the once-legendary Polar-bear-Mike.
Well put on the part of Mister Art. I’m sure The Season is rather a drag for the year-round locals. But you had fabulous weather for it. Glad the getaway was all of that, and I hope you put those oysters to good use………
Welcome home in advance, Flo!
Comment by adam — April 18, 2005 @ 7:32 pm
You do know that we’re NOT happy to know that you talked to only one person. On the other hand, we’re glad if Richard doesn’t google “Richard” and “Chatham” and “Falconer” regularly.
My sister, who has a very unusual spelling of a reasonably unusual name, turns out to have a name-double who has sued the state of Florida for NOT teaching her creationism in school.
Comment by jennifer — April 18, 2005 @ 9:14 pm
Yeah there is that, but he doesn’t look like the type to waste his time in cyber pursuits. But just in cast his friends are, I made up his name.
Comment by michael — April 19, 2005 @ 7:35 pm
Now get the Bourne Supremacy, equally good. Then get Before Sunset, better than anything. My favorite movie of 2004. I love pretend Richard the art guy’s comment…how very perfect. He needs to be further down on the Cape to avoid the “I’m with Stupid” crowd. I’m glad you two had some good, oyster time away together.
Comment by caper — April 21, 2005 @ 7:57 pm