Sunday my brother Jim and his partner Louise came over to see the AirBnB house and have brunch. The dining room table seats at least 6 and is dramatic, but we discovered that it was so large that we had to either stand to serve ourselves or scoot the dishes across to each other.
Later in the day, we had a mini reunion of Pomona grads: Denise, Frank, Linda, and I along with Denise’s husband Caleb and Frank's husband Bill. So great catching up and our first time meeting Bill, who is quite a raconteur and had some fascinating tales of his time researching German Opera Culture - by being a member of a German opera company.
The food was fabulous as always at Denise and Caleb's house and included carrot soup, mashed sweet potatoes with ginger, baked salmon, a Japanese cabbage slaw and a sort of agro dolce cannellini beans dish.
The show stopper for me though was the fruit plate for dessert which included freshly picked pluots from their own trees - so fragrant you could smell them from several feet away
So grateful to be able to gather with friends and family after a year of separation.