2020 Life Logs, Day 343: Trip to See the Aunties
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Weather: Cold Day, Skiff of Snow Tonight: High 36, Low 31 Degrees
Location: At Home in The Cottage, Falmouth, MA
Today was a traveling day. Shirley and Doris are sisters and they are aunts of Karen Baranowski. I rent the cottage from Shirley, so today Peter, Karen, and I drove north to Scituate to visit with the aunties. Shirley is 95 and Doris is 102 and they live in Doris’ home in Scituate part of the year and in Shirley’s home across the driveway from me the other half of the year. I had a Christmas greenery decoration to take to them, and Karen and I decided to take food for a nice holiday luncheon together. Covid-wise, it was probably not the safest thing to do, but we wore masks and stayed far apart. Thankfully Doris’ dining table is huge, so even at the table we were far apart. We had a wonderful visit and a delicious lunch. Karen cooked a pork tenderloin with potatoes, and I added applesauce, Brussels sprout slaw, and an apple pie made with the apple pie filling I canned recently. This was a first taste test of the filling and it passed with flying colors. The pie was really delicious. And it looked good, too. This morning when I was preparing the pie, I asked if anyone knew how to make a lattice pie topping. Ollie said he knew and I asked why it was only the youngest person at breakfast this morning who knew how to do this. He explained that Jed had taught him how to do this at Thanksgiving. He explained the process to Jonah and together they made the lattice pie topper. Ollie added an egg wash and it really turned out beautifully.
Our new temporary living situation went smoothly, I think, for day one. We are all learning new routines here at the cottage and Sam and Jed seem to be doing fine as well. The important thing is that everyone is still healthy. Let’s hope we can all stay that way.
