At Home in Wilmington: July 2015

Friday, July 24, 2015

The week

This week I have not been at home in Wilmington. Instead I have been in Oklahoma visiting Stuart, Paige and all three children. With me is Ruby who enjoyed flying for the first time. She and her cousins have been happy, harmonious and sometime hysterical, and this morning I remembered how everything was funny when I was twelve, too. But their generation is much different from mine and their parents. They have tablets and phones and Netflix, and rarely have they been away from them. All that technology is standard in their lives and culture, but we old folks spent our childhoods without it.

While they were on their devices and the parents away at work, I resorted to my default setting, baking. They didn't mind. I have gone through seven lbs of bread flour, and I think they all enjoyed the pizza, beignets, cinnamon rolls, and Parmesan herb bread. I really wanted to put the herbs in their garden to good use. Some of the results were positively blog worthy, and I may post a picture.

We three generations of grown ups went downtown to a nice dinner one night. And yesterday Stuart took us to the excellent Heritage Museum in Enid where I learned a lot about Oklahoma's colorful history. Jacob has taken the three younger ones to the neighborhood park and pool where they have had a blast.

Tomorrow this time we will be back at the airport to head home to the Carolinas. Then we will have just our memories.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

an interesting dish

Lunch at a trendy place in town. In the upper right corner are fried chick peas, a good substitute for french fries The main dish is a buffalo patty on (unseen) brown rice topped by a fried egg, surrounded by cucumber, shredded cabbage and drizzled with an assortment of three spicy dressings. huh?